Grand ideas and designs.........

We were recommended a local architect, who we met with, discussed our vision for the restoration and agreed costs for drawing up the house design and project plans.   Three years on... and we learned that restoring a property is more complex and takes more time to get signed off than new build projects.  I must say during this time I did question my own sanity,  wondering why we hadn't just settled for an apartment instead.

Anyway, over the three years we worked with the architect to ensure that the final plans would be as sympathetic and as close to the original building as possible, using the same materials and keeping pretty much to the same layout.  The plans were submitted and discussed at the head office in Mugla on several occasions over that period, before we finally received a call to say they had been passed and we could now start the build.  Elation and panic, omg it was actually going to happen......

Our inspiration for the design, came from numerous places, the village itself, as it is a gorgeous place with traditional houses, a beautiful Mosque, friendly residents, not to mention the Mehmet Ali Ağa Mansion Hotel  recently restored and locally known as “Kocaev” (big house).