Your brief for this combination
Use this plan when discussing finish selection in a terrace house, with retain existing items as the priority. The current decision point is design review. Confirm that these assumptions match your actual home before using the checklist.
A terrace interior plan should trace daylight, ventilation and services through the depth of the home. Any building alteration needs its own professional feasibility assessment.
Work to define: Finish selection
Review samples together under the intended lighting and against retained materials. Appearance should be considered alongside cleaning, edge treatment, junctions and the repair or replacement strategy.
The working deliverable is finish sample and junction schedule. For this property, start by resolving the following constraint: Record changes in level, existing services and areas needing professional assessment.
Design for retain existing items
Record the condition and dimensions of retained pieces. The design must resolve protection, installation access and finish junctions around them, rather than treating them as unchanging background.
Apply that priority to the finish sample and junction schedule: Photograph the condition and define protection and making-good boundaries. Discuss the result against the actual terrace house layout rather than treating a similar photograph as evidence that the detail will fit.
At the design review stage
Resolve the details that affect fabrication, services and finish interfaces. Compare the drawings with actual selected items and retain a clear record of approved revisions.
The expected stage output is: Coordinated drawings and a dated decision record for fabrication and installation. Resolve the retain existing items question within this record, so the priority is carried through the finish selection work rather than lost between drawings, quotations and site instructions.
Four questions to resolve together
- For finish selection: How will the finish be cleaned, repaired and joined to adjacent materials?
- For retain existing items: Which retained item changes the installation or connection sequence?
- For this terrace house: Record changes in level, existing services and areas needing professional assessment.
- Before completing the design review: Check that each selected item and retained interface appears on the current drawings.
Build your consultation checklist
Select the outstanding checks. The button creates a brief for this exact planning scenario; it does not send or store personal information.
Property requirements and scope boundaries
Have the actual proposed alterations and existing building condition assessed by the appropriate professionals. An interior planning checklist is not structural or building approval.
Record existing condition, retained items, quantities, named products or specifications, exclusions and responsibility owners. Pricing and feasibility require the actual scope and site information. This scenario does not establish a market price or confirm that any work has been approved.
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Review the finish selection decisions and quotation checks, then return to this property, priority and stage checklist.