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THE SUMMIT COLLECTION / BESPOKE PROJECTS
Distinctive spaces shaped by your ideas, your property, and the way you want to live. Thoughtfully designed and expertly crafted in British Columbia.
Start your projectWHAT A BESPOKE PROJECT IS
Some Ideas Deserve Their Own Path.
A bespoke project is designed and built for one property and one brief, rather than a Summit model adapted to a site. It is the route we take when a standard design cannot answer the property or the use. The work is staged, and each stage is written down and agreed before the next one begins.
Usually the right route when
- The property has a constraint a stock design cannot meet: slope, access, servicing, setbacks or a tight building envelope.
- The building is for something other than a straightforward home: a studio, guest accommodation, a commercial or hospitality space, or a dwelling shared by more than one household.
- The project is an addition, a rebuild, or a new building that has to answer an existing structure.
- The design has to respond to a particular view, landscape feature or way of living.
- The property is remote, off-grid, or outside a standard servicing area.
Worth knowing before you begin
- Where a Summit model suits the site, adapting that model is faster and less expensive to develop than starting from nothing.
- If the property cannot yet be built on, approvals work comes before design, and it sets the schedule.
- Bespoke is priced project by project. Neither a fee nor a timeline is offered before the brief and the property have been reviewed.
PUBLISHED BESPOKE WORK
Bespoke Work, Published Once Approved.
No Bespoke Projects Are Published Here Yet.
A bespoke project appears here only once its owner has approved publication and its photography and details have been checked. Until then this section stays empty rather than presenting a concept or a proposal as a completed build. The engagement set out below is how the work actually runs, and we are glad to talk through comparable projects directly.
HOW AN ENGAGEMENT RUNS
From a Short Brief to a Coordinated Build.
01
Initial brief
You send a short written brief: what the building is for, where the property is, whether you own it, roughly how much space you have in mind, how your budget is framed, and anything you have collected as reference. We read it ourselves and reply with questions, with a request to see the property, or with a straight answer if bespoke is not the right route.
02
Feasibility and design scope
Before any design work is priced, we look at what the property allows: access, slope, servicing, setbacks, and which approval path applies. That review defines the design scope, what will be drawn, at what level of detail, and what is deliberately left out.
03
Proposal
You receive a written proposal for the scope we agreed to explore: the work included, the deliverables, the sequence, the fee basis for that work, and the time each stage is expected to take. Work outside an accepted proposal does not begin.
04
Agreed deliverables
Drawing sets, engineering, energy documentation and permit submissions are separate deliverables. Each is listed against the project and agreed before it is produced, so at every stage you know what you are receiving and what it is for.
05
Construction coordination
With design and approvals in place we coordinate the build, factory production where the building suits it, site works, trades and inspections. The construction agreement covers schedule, payment stages and site responsibilities, and is a separate document from the design agreement.
WHO DOES WHAT
What Summit Provides, and What Sits Outside It.
Bespoke work involves more parties than a model purchase. This is the usual division of responsibility; the split for your property is set out in the proposal.
Summit provides
- Brief review and an assessment of what the property allows
- Design development, construction drawings and documentation
- Coordination of the consultants and trades the project needs
- Factory production and site assembly where the building suits it
- One point of contact from the first brief through to the build
Specialists and approvals
- Geotechnical, structural and civil engineering where required
- Surveying, site plans and confirmation of servicing capacity
- Building permits, zoning or development approvals, timing set by the authority
- Energy modelling, septic or well approvals where they apply
- Legal review of title, covenants or strata rules
You supply
- Property details: ownership, survey, and any existing services
- Your brief, references, and drawings you already hold
- Decisions at the points we ask for them, so a stage can close
- Access to the building area for survey and site work
- Site preparation such as clearing, driveway or trenching, unless agreed otherwise
Separate agreements
- Design and feasibility are proposed and agreed separately from construction
- Engineering, surveying and specialist reports are contracted with those consultants
- Permit and authority charges sit outside a design or building fee
- Landscaping, servicing and interior fit-out beyond the agreed scope
- Maintenance or warranty work after handover
START YOUR PROJECT
Start with a Short Brief.
A few lines are enough to begin. We read every brief ourselves and reply within two business days, with questions, with a request to see the property, or with an honest answer if bespoke is not the right route.
What the brief covers
- What the building is for, and how it will be used
- The region the property is in
- Whether you own it, or are still looking
- Roughly how much space you have in mind
- How your budget is framed, not the figure itself
- Any references, drawings or photographs you hold
No fee figure and no timeline is offered before the brief and the property have been reviewed. Bespoke work is priced project by project. What you send is read by the Summit team only.