 
          With a prior history as a cabi-
        
        
          netmaker and joiner, Keith
        
        
          has practical building expe-
        
        
          rience to go along with his
        
        
          impeccable design skills. On
        
        
          top of that, his creative back-
        
        
          ground as a professional mu-
        
        
          sician has given him a unique
        
        
          insight into design work.
        
        
          “[I’m] very much interested in
        
        
          how things are made and why
        
        
          things go together… [I’m]
        
        
          also very keen on the idea of
        
        
          how space affects people…
        
        
          not just the functional level
        
        
          of walking around or sitting
        
        
          or looking out at a view but
        
        
          the energy of the space, the
        
        
          materials you use, the con-
        
        
          text, how you relate it to the
        
        
          natural world and things like
        
        
          that. That’s been a focus and
        
        
          an interest from the very be-
        
        
          ginning for me.”
        
        
          The company motto, ‘We cre-
        
        
          ate our homes – then they cre-
        
        
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