Notes on material, light, and making.

Materials that age well aren’t maintenance-free — they just ask for a different kind of maintenance, and a different kind of patience.

The briefs we turn down usually aren’t bad projects. They’re just not projects we’d do well.

Notes from two days spent watching a bespoke kitchen get built, board by board, in the workshop that makes most of our joinery.

Knocking down every wall isn’t a design philosophy. Sometimes it’s just the easiest thing to ask for.

Every project has one site visit that felt optional at the time. It’s never actually optional.

Reclaimed timber is not automatically sustainable, automatically beautiful, or automatically cheaper. Done properly, it can be all three.

We turn down work most years — not because we’re full, but because we’ve decided what ‘too many projects’ actually means for us.

You learn more about how a house was actually built by watching it come down than by reading the original drawings.

A mood board is a collection of other people’s rooms. We’d rather start from the site, the light, and the brief — and build the mood from there.

The model comes later. The first version of almost every project at Plinth still starts as a pencil line on paper, and we don’t think that’s nostalgia.

Before we talk about tile choices or floor plans, we ask what happens if the budget and the brief don’t agree. Most studios save that conversation for later. We don’t.