We engaged Clint as the designer of our house to be built by his brother in Mindarie. We first met Clint through a mutual friend Mal and it was over a social get together with all four of us and our wives that we then rather jokingly agreed to have him design the next homes for both Mal and us. I say jokingly because we had no aspirations for change at this stage.

Then our dream of moving to Mindarie eventuated. We had bought a block there so we rang Clint.

Having never built a home from scratch before we expected the design process to involve complexity, indecision and uncertainty but it turned out to be amazingly easy. Clint simply asked s to go out and look for modern features in houses that appealed to us. He knew we liked the home we had then in Ocean Reef and he asked what it was we liked about it. He suggested many more things that bought us into the latest way of thinking and no more than a couple of meetings later he came up with a set of plans.

We loved the design immediately and thought it was very impressive but a bit out of our league. That notion was soon dispelled much to our surprise and elation and away we went with the build.

It is common knowledge that building a new home can be a hugely challenging process that often results in pain and despair. We saw none of that with Clint. He was fully complaint with any requests and freely advised us along the way with any queries or minor changes that we wanted. When the plans were submitted for approval there were no issues to contend with the authorities as he clearly knew the building regulations and legal requirements set down by the developers and the council.

As the house developed into reality we were continually overwhelmed and surprised. When it became a finalist in the HIA awards we were understandably filled with pride and appreciation for what Clint had created us.

Garry and Liz Stewart