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b'On today\\u2019s episode we are joined by our guest and principal architect at Mcquaid Architects, Elaine Mcquaid. We discuss how to find an architect and the initial design brief. She tells us how she got started and why she went into architecture, and then we talk about our history of how we came to our current situation. Elaine talks about how you can work with an architect and the best things you can do to prepare, such as thinking about how you live your life, and then designing your home accordingly. She makes models of homes and explains why she chooses this method as opposed to a computer program or other methods.

How Elaine got started in architecture 1:14
Tips on getting the most out of an architect 11:00
Why use a model? 20:52
What Elaine learned/thought about us after we met 26:23

\\u201cThe thing we had in stage one that I was like, really, I like the way she works, you had in \\u2018This isn\\u2019t about getting the desired result in a certain number of meetings. It\\u2019s about getting the right result.\\u2019 It\\u2019s not tied, if we need to have as many meetings as we need to to get the right result.\\u2019 And I\\u2019m like, that\\u2019s important because so much emotion is attached to this. Homes are the biggest purchase that people generally make.\\u201d 34:50

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