Brief
The land and what you want
We walk the site with you and write a brief before drawings begin.
Land
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We begin with your site, and we stay until your rooms are ready. Development, construction and interiors — one conversation from the first walk to the last detail.
Welcome
For people who care how their place is made.
We stay with your project from the first walk on the land until your house is ready to live in. Savannah is your land: earth, stone, timber and the acacia that gives the work its character. Silk is the finish: your rooms, the joinery, the quiet of a detail done well. Families, hotels and landowners come to us in Kenya, and we travel when your project asks us to.
Your land first
How your house sits, where the shade falls, and how you arrive are settled before the plan is locked. The acacia, the slope and the light are part of your brief.
Materials that last
Stone, earth, timber and fibre chosen for how they age in your climate, worked by masons and joiners we have known for years.
Quiet rooms
Less decoration, better joints. A room in your house should still feel right twenty years from now.
One conversation
You speak with us. We hold the consultants, the site and the cost so your project does not scatter across a dozen inboxes.
What we do
How we can
work with you.
01Development
We look at your plot, the numbers and what you hope the place will become, then write a clear brief so design can begin on solid ground.
Feasibility studies
Site and land strategy
Concept development
Financial modelling
Savannah
The land, and what it is made of.
Stone, rammed earth, timber, lime and fibre, chosen with you, sampled before we order, and worked by masons and joiners we have used for years. The acacia is more than a mark: it is how we think about shade, your plot, and the climate your building has to live in.
- Quarries and mills visited with you
- Sample panels before any bulk order
- Makers we return to
- A light hand on sensitive sites
Silk
The rooms, thought through with the house.
Joinery, lighting, ironmongery and furniture are designed with the structure, so a kitchen, a bedroom or a lodge suite feels like part of the building rather than something added at the end.
- Joinery drawn to the millimetre
- Buying in Kenya and abroad
- Pieces made to order
- Styling and install at handover
How we work
How your project unfolds.
Plan
Drawings, people, calendar
Architects and engineers work to one programme and one cost. You hear from us.
Build
On site
Someone from our side is with the job. Weekly notes and a regular valuation.
Finish
Rooms and keys
Joinery, furnishings and a calm handover. The keys are yours.
Private housesRenovations and restorationsCommercial interiorsHospitalitySafari camps and ecolodgesConstruction supervisionBuying in Kenya and abroadContractor coordination
Projects
Houses, camps and interiors
we are proud of.
With you
How we work with you, and how we grow.
With you
Your project, start to finish
We bring your house, renovation, interiors, hotel or camp through from brief to handover, so you work with one practice rather than a string of separate firms.
On our own land
Development we take on
We also find and shape land ourselves: feasibility, design, finance, construction and sale, carrying the same care from the first visit to the last room.
The journal
Notes from the practice.
Land · Craft · Legacy
Tell us about the place you want to make.
Whether you have land, drawings, or a house you would like to change, write to us or call +254 721 570 558. We would like to hear about your place.
Start your project