From first sketch to the years after.
Two years or more, thirteen stages, and one person who answers for all of it.
Thirteen stages
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01
Private Introduction
Your enquiry is read by our Private Client Director, who arranges a first conversation in confidence.
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02
Land & Lifestyle Discovery
We walk the land with you and learn how your family lives, gathers, rests and receives guests.
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03
Architectural Vision
A narrative for the residence: its mood, its spatial programme and the philosophy it will hold to.
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04
Concept Residence
Plans, massing and a landscape concept, presented through considered visualisation.
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05
Design Development
Architecture, interior, structure, services and landscape resolved together, not in sequence.
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06
Investment Control
A cost plan prepared by our quantity surveyors and agreed with you before detailed procurement begins.
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07
Authority & Technical Design
Submissions to the local authority, and the construction drawings the site will build from.
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08
Pre-construction
Craftsmen and suppliers selected, full-size mock-ups approved, long-lead materials ordered early.
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09
Construction
The residence is built by a ring-fenced team, with a visual report every week.
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10
Interior & Styling
Fit-out, joinery, furniture and styling, completed as one composition.
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11
Commissioning
Every system tested, and the residence inspected against the Mahligai Standard.
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12
Handover
A considered handover, with the Mahligai Quality Dossier and a house manual for the family.
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13
Residence Care
Defects, warranties and maintenance looked after, with priority aftercare for years to come.
The pre-construction study
Before any design is commissioned, we undertake a paid pre-construction study of your site and your brief. It gives you, and us, a clear and honest foundation for every decision that follows.
- Site evaluation and planning constraints
- Your lifestyle brief and spatial programme
- Architectural direction and preliminary massing
- An indicative cost plan and programme
- A consultant strategy for the whole residence
The scope of each study is agreed privately, for each site. Where architectural design follows, it is carried out under the appointment of a registered Professional Architect.
Read: the pre-construction study, explained
A private record of your residence
Every Mahligai residence is documented as it happens, in a private record that you — and only you — can open at any time, wherever you are in the world.
- Design decisions and material approvals
- The agreed cost plan, and every change to it
- Procurement status and the programme
- A visual site report every week
- Variation orders, approved before any work begins
- Payment certificates, inspections and quality records
- Warranties and a digital house manual at handover
The service you can expect
A Private Client Director
One named person, from the first conversation to long after handover.
Executive updates
At a rhythm you choose, with a private channel between them.
Mock-ups before orders
Full-size samples in a sample room, approved by you before anything is ordered.
Factory inspections
For major custom pieces, before they leave the workshop.
A decision log
Every choice recorded, dated and agreed, so nothing is remembered differently.
White-glove handover
A considered handover, with the Quality Dossier and a house concierge.
A handful of residences, each year.
Each enquiry is read personally by our Private Client Director. Tell us about your land and your family, and we will arrange a private conversation — in person, or wherever in the world you are.