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Alexandra Hull
37 West St
Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DR
United Kingdom
37 West St
Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DR
United Kingdom
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We have a unique wealth of knowledge on remodelling the exterior of houses and can offer impartial advise and expert guidance to help you make the most of your homes kerb appeal. We can get involved at any stage to suit your project, helping you to get your project off on the right foot, working alongside your architect or help you prepare for construction.
We offer a range of services, each tailored to your project. From helping you select the right materials, products and colours to 3D visualisation and Design and Planning, enabling you to articulate the vision to other 3rd parties such as your builder, architect and manufacturers. We will advise you on what we think is suitable for your needs.
Services Provided
Architectural Design, Home Renovation, House Restoration, Exterior design, Remodelling, House Renovation, Exterior Design, Homebuilding and Renovating, Kerb Appeal, Architectural Design Consultancy
Areas Served
Farnham, Home counties, United Kingdom, England, South East, South West, Midlands, North East, North West
9 Projects for Back to Front Exterior Design Consultancy
The Woking Project
8 photos
Bramhall, Greater Manchester
The Bramhall Project - Our Legacy
39 photos
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
The Bishop's Stortford Project - Our Legacy
6 photos
Windows and Doors
4 photos
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
The Hemel Hempstead Project - Our Legacy
14 photos
Bromley, Greater London
The Bromley II Project - Our Legacy
18 photos
Bosham, West Sussex
The Bosham Project - Our Legacy
5 photos
Tring, Hertfordshire
The Tring Project - Our Legacy
8 photos
House To Home Transformation designed by Back to Front Exterior Design, Surrey
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20 Reviews for Back to Front Exterior Design Consultancy
HU-31386706
Relationship
Client
Project Date
Nov 2019
Project Price
> than £100,000
We have a 1900 Edwardian property that needed some remodelling to the exterior. Alex and Jo were able to come up with a fantastic plan in just one design consultation. Really appreciated the honest opinions and wealth of knowledge. A pleasure to work with and we would highly recommend. Alex (Bucks)
5 days ago
HU-869633738
Relationship
Client
Project Date
Sep 2019
Project Price
> than £100,000
From the outset it was a pleasure dealing with Alex and Jo. The two hours we spent at the studio helped set the ideas for the entire renovation, with invaluable advice about space and materials. We ended up working though a process to achieve the exterior visuals and materials recommendation which was both easy and enjoyable. Alex is adept at being both the friendly professional and the unfalteringly honest if-you-are-asking-my-opinion-then-here-it-is which makes her advice something you want to seek out for all decisions. I cannot recommend them highly enough and am grateful to them for helping us for over a year on and off, and mediating throughout! Everything is done slickly and on time and delivered beyond expectations in a very friendly way. Thank you.
30 September, 2019
Simon Cole
Relationship
Client
Project Date
Jul 2019
Project Price
£10,000 – £49,999
Back to Front advised on a general representation of the exterior of our house including specification of new windows throughout, advice on replacement rooftiles and suppliers, colour scheme and replacement guttering.
We are delighted with the results which have transformed our house. Alex is passionate about her work and has a meticulous approach to detail.
9 August, 2019
Gareth & Charlie Evans
Relationship
Client
Project Date
Aug 2019
Project Price
> than £100,000
We cannot rate Back to Front highly enough - one session has proved how much the devil is in the detail. No matter how many pictures we save from Houzz the knowledge & detail gained from our session will take our potentially good project to being the very best it can be. Our session has left us confident with the finishes and materials that need selecting to finish our project. With a wide range of samples you can see your final product choices alongside each other. Thoroughly worthwhile!
26 January, 2019
Geoff Ward
Relationship
Client
Project Date
Nov 2018
Project Price
£10,000 – £49,999
Inspirational process. We wanted design ideas to improve the external appearance appeal of our bland 1960s home. Alexandra and Jo were a delight to deal with and we came away from the initial consultation very inspired by the ideas presented. We are now going ahead with the first stage of the improvements and are very pleased with the results to date.
23 January, 2019
Bereco Windows & Doors
Relationship
Colleague
Project Date
n/a
Project Price
n/a
I cannot rate Back to Front Exterior Design Consultancy highly enough. They are entirely unique in what they do and offer expert design advise at all stages along with full visualization. Their house transformations are created with sensitivity and style and they are a joy to work with.
31 May, 2018
Alex Ingham
Relationship
Client
Project Date
Jun 2018
Project Price
£50,000 – £100,000
I highly recommend using Back To Front Exterior consultancy to help you transform your home. Alex packed so much information and detail into our 2 hour meeting and made making decisions so much easier. Fantastic service, wouldn't hesitate to use Back to Front again!
18 May, 2018
Karen K
Relationship
Client
Project Date
Mar 2018
Project Price
> than £100,000
Alexandra is both lovely to work with and hugely knowledgeable. I had complete confidence that her advice would be just right. She took a very bland design and made it look quite stunning. I will be back for further advice on colour schemes and windows as I know the end result will be just perfect and will save me hours and hours of stress and indecision over what to choose myself!
18 May, 2018
masmonos
Relationship
Client
Project Date
Apr 2018
Project Price
less than £1,000
We worked with Alexandra for 2 hours as a piece of discrete consultancy and she was fantastic. We went in with a large number of queries and came out feeling clearer and confident of what we need to do. She is so knowledgeable about both the technical aspects and design elements which makes her advice so useful. She also knew about many of the products we are considering so was able to give clear advice on each.
We are following her guidance on many aspects, Windows, cladding, guttering, roofing, balconies etc. We felt it was 2 hours well spent!
The cost indicates that this was limited to the two hours advice.
25 March, 2018
Naomi Rayner
Relationship
Client
Project Date
Jun 2017
Project Price
£10,000 – £49,999
From start to finish our experience with Back to Front was excellent and we would thoroughly recommend them. We hired them to design (their "Stage 1") a complete remodel, inside and out, for our run down 6 bedroom 1950s/1980s extension house - so the project cost here reflects the cost for their work on this, and getting it through planning, not the eventual renovation. A couple of things are worth mentioning in particular.
1. Interior remodelling as well as Exterior:
Despite being called Back to Front EXTERIOR Design, they are passionate about interior remodelling, particularly in re-configuring existing space rather than simply building more on. Having lived in the house for 6 months (and worked as a project manager on multiple renovations), I thought I had worked out the best way to reorganise our internal space...I gave them these ideas and said "better it if you can". They returned with something spectacularly improved and very ingenious. They were thorough in scoping out the property, getting a survey, checking subfloors, roof structure etc, and this has given us confidence that their suggestions are realistic. I was particularly impressed with the way they included many suggestions that will help make the build cost-effective in the long run - turning a window into a door (so re-using the structural lintel), painting the house not rendering it, re-using our existing roof tiles, doing very minimal external groundwork. It was a great reminder of why you hire a professional!
2. Value:
We went for a package which included only one round of revisions. Due to the combination of a clear initial brief & good listening/good questions by B2F, they nailed it on the first draft and after a few small amendments, we were happy to submit to planning after this one round of changes. As with everything, the clearer the brief, the more likely you are to get a good result and the more cost efficient the process will be.
3. Play to their strengths:
Back to Front have a smallish variety of remodelling styles which you can find on their website/Houzz/Pinterest/Facebook. Much (but not all) of their work is variations on one of these themes, and as such they are exceptionally good at this type of work. They are designers, not architects, and that is a difference that they are happy to discuss before you decide to hire them.
4. Plans/visuals:
They do beautiful, very high end plans and graphics (including a 3D walk through model) that make it super-easy for a non-trade person to visualise the end result - be it you the customer, or the neighbour you hope will not put in an objection. They do a separate more technical set for planning submissions. I have attached the external visuals produced (and photos of the original house).
4 October, 2017
B A Montgomery
Relationship
Client
Project Date
Jul 2015
Project Price
> than £100,000
Good morning Alexandra
It was fun to have you all round to visit the 'site' not so long ago and I am delighted the weather was so brilliant. Your photographs were very extensive and great fun to see on the website.
We are thoroughly enjoying living here. Our initial attraction was the location, in the middle of the village yet isolated and with fabulous views back and front. The size of the plot is excellent in terms of maintenance after the huge garden we had before! On top of that we can sit outside looking over the field behind and have the grandchildren playing happily on the lawn which we didn't have before.
Having seen your first enterprise mentioned in the Farnham Herald all those years ago we knew that Back to Front would be our designers of choice and were very nervous that our 'dreadful' building would not meet your criteria for development. Thank goodness you saw the potential just as had we and so we ventured down the redevelopment path together.
While we had some idea of what we wanted to make of the original house it was incredibly helpful to have your professional input. It was some time since we had done any building work and, of course, ideas, technology and supplies had all changed beyond our knowledge. All of your team gave us full attention when we needed it and any problems with the design were sorted out completely. Once we had understood your system of working it made a lot of sense and the final detailed spec meant that builders quotes were more or less true by the end of the project. As you know, it is always more expensive to do work than you expect particularly when you are dealing with an existing building and its hidden horrors - asbestos being one - but we were pleasantly surprised by the small percentage overspend on the original quote by the end of the project.
One year on we have more or less settled in. While there are a few pictures yet to hang and blinds, headboards etc to finish we are extremely happy with our home and hope to spend many more years here.
Best wishes
Bridget and Bruce
26 August, 2017
wisey100
Relationship
Client
Project Date
Jun 2015
Project Price
> than £100,000
We loved working with Back to Front on our project -
transforming a small tired 1940s house into a beautiful 3 storey home. A small team but with a lot of expertise between them! They were very open to feedback and input throughout, resulting in a set of plans we loved. Support through the planning process was excellent. We opted for the extended service, taking us through to tender stage. Our builder has told us a number of times he's never worked with such clear plans. As a result, our build remains on time and on budget and as we're project managing it ourselves, much less stressful as we made a lot of decisions up front with Back to Front's help. Whilst we don't plan on doing another project, we wouldn't hesitate to recommend Back to Front and have already done so to a number of friends and work colleagues.
18 August, 2017