How the Houses Are Made

We draw the house in section first — where the volume opens, where daylight enters and how far it falls, which rooms look into which. At Float this produced a living room suspended between two floors above the pool, and a basement that receives light from four levels above. Plans arrange rooms. Sections decide what a house feels like.

In practice

• Double-height volumes and vertical voids
• Skylights and light wells carried to the lowest level
• Sightlines set between levels, not just across them
• Solid street elevations; glazing turned inward

Stone is chosen at the slab and book-matched where it deserves it. Timber is seasoned, sampled, and approved in daylight before cutting. All joinery for a house comes from one workshop, in one polish, so grain and colour carry across every door, wardrobe and panel. Brass and bronze are left unlacquered to darken with use. Ironmongery is solid and weighted.

In practice

• Slab-selected, book-matched marble
• Solid mahogany and kale joinery, single workshop
• Unlacquered brass and bronze
• Full-height doors, flush reveals, no visible frames
• Continuous flooring, no thresholds between rooms

A house is completed before it is offered — furnished, lit, styled, and standing. Kitchens installed, wardrobes fitted, lighting scened, rugs and art in place. What the buyer sees is what the buyer receives, and there is nothing left to specify, order, or wait for.

In practice

• Furnished and styled throughout, conveyed with the house
• Lighting scenes set room by room
• Landscape and pool complete at handover
• One owner per residence