At the core of every design we produce is the client. Our ambition from the outset is to interpret and re-imagine the basic requirements and desires that our clients bring to the project. Through an intensely collaborative process of design involving the expertise of the "makers" that will actually perform the work, these desires are transformed and made into a new and unique reality. And we have an adamant belief that this new reality should be long-lived. The considered way our projects wear, age, and patina is a deliberate part of the design process intended to create a natural and organic architecture.

Frances Mildred is named after Brian's Grandmother, not only in reverence to an inspiring personality whose values we hold dear, but also to signify the familial nature of the way we work. We rely on strong relationships, based on a proven confluence of quality and aesthetic, after many years of successful builds.