How a proposal is actually developed.
One representative terrace kitchen, from the condition it was found in to the specification a contractor can price. Three layouts are tested and scored against the brief — and the two that are rejected are shown with the reasons, because that is the part a finished render can never argue.
Before any design, the existing condition is recorded — including the parts nobody wants to look at.
A representative existing-condition study
The room measured and photographed as found — not styled.
What is actually wrong
Damage, damp and failure marked on the photograph itself.
How you use the room, where water already is, and where the services already run — the facts a layout has to obey.
What you need the room to do
Cooking pattern, storage, who uses it and when.
Where the moisture is
Dry, semi-wet and wet zones decide the material, not taste.
Three layouts are drawn on the same measured shell and scored against the brief. Two are rejected in writing — the reasons are part of the proposal, not hidden.
Why two were rejected
Eleven criteria, scored side by side — selection is not visual preference.
Materials by zone, appliances and storage, services coordinated.
Signature
What changes when the specification steps up.
Final scope composition
What the scope is made of — where the work sits, package by package.
This sequence is a representative study, not a completed project: the room, dimensions and options are worked as a teaching example so the method is visible without exposing a client's home. On your project the same steps run against your measured room — and appliance models, service capacities and final clearances are verified before anything is produced.
Your renovation, presented as one clear plan
Before any work begins, ELS turns your choices into a single proposal you can read in five minutes — the design direction, your spaces, exactly what's included, an indicative investment, and one clear way to start.
Direction
The design language matched to your home and how you live.
See it
Concept studies in your direction — so it's not left to imagination.
Spaces & finishes
Your rooms, wall colour, ceiling and hardware, captured in one place.
What's included
The exact scope — what ELS coordinates and what ALUMAX supplies.
Investment
An indicative planning band from your brief, ahead of any quotation.
Commit
One clear next step — once the drawings are approved and ALUMAX has quoted its products, ALUMAX's deposit confirms the product order; each other trade starts under its own quotation.
This is how yours will read
A sample built from a real ELS style — your proposal is prepared from your own brief, with your spaces, renders and figures.
Warm Wood Modern
An example of how ELS turns your decisions into one clear plan — direction, spaces, scope and next steps.
Warm Wood Modern
Warm, practical and contemporary.
Warm timber reads as calm rather than cold, which matters in a house that is lit for twelve hours of flat equatorial daylight. Because the palette sits in the middle of the tonal range, it hides the two things Sarawak homes actually show: fine dust on horizontal surfaces, and the slight colour shift every timber finish suffers near a west-facing window. It is the most forgiving of the ELS styles over a ten-year life.
Concept studies in your direction — reference for the look, not your final design.
- Kitchen
- Living / TV wall
- Master wardrobe
- Lighting
- Ventilation
- Waterproofing
Recommended tier: Signature
Indicative planning band, NOT a quotation. Your firm figure follows a site measurement and confirmed scope.
A deposit reserves your project
Once the drawings are approved and ALUMAX has quoted the ALUMAX products in the scope, ALUMAX's deposit releases ALUMAX's procurement and installation. Each other trade starts under its own quotation with you. The deposit follows ALUMAX's quotation and terms.
- DrawingsFull renders and working drawings, for your approval.
- QuotationALUMAX prices the ALUMAX products in the approved scope; other specified suppliers and specialist trades quote their own packages. ELS holds no product price.
- DepositReleases ALUMAX's procurement and installation.
- ProcurementELS recommends an order of work for the materials and the trades you appoint.
- WorksChecked at the hold-points in the commissioned scope, with each record shared with you.
- Sign-offYou review and approve as it completes.
In the work sequence: drawings are stage 3, quotation stage 4, procurement and works stages 5 to 9, sign-off stage 10.
After sign-off, the first 2 major changes are included; further major changes are charged per the approved offer terms.
- Optional—priced separately
- The ELS technical site survey, which is charged separately
- You need to arrange
- Product supply and installation — ALUMAX prices those separately Specialist trades and any allowance for them These are outside this fee, so none of them starts from it. ALUMAX supplies and installs its own products under its own warranty, and every other trade — electrical, plumbing, tiling, ceiling, waterproofing — is contracted directly by you, to this specification. If you want the works delivered under one contract, request an ELS+ assessment.
- To confirm before order
- Any measurement, access, compatibility or technical point not yet settled. It is shown as open in your written proposal when it applies.
The example above is a design-only proposal.
It covers direction, spaces, materials, drawings and scope. It does not include renovation delivery. Delivery is ELS+ Renovation Delivery, contracted separately, with a proposal of its own.
An ELS+ Renovation Delivery proposal
This specimen shows what each ELS+ proposal defines. It is not a real project and sets no contract terms.
- The business you contract with
- ELS Design and Build, named in your proposal.
- What each trade supplies
- Stated in your proposal, trade by trade.
This installation price assumes the site conditions listed below. If measurement or site inspection identifies additional work, we will explain the work, price and programme effect for your approval before proceeding.
- Optional—priced separately
- The ELS technical site survey, which is charged separately
- You need to arrange
- Works outside the contract you sign. Your proposal names each trade and what it supplies; anything it does not list is not part of the price, so ask ELS+ to add it to the proposal or arrange it yourself before work begins.
- To confirm before order
- Any measurement, access, compatibility or technical point not yet settled. It is shown as open in your written proposal when it applies.
01 · Scope and price
Drawings, specifications, inclusions, exclusions and payment stages.
02 · Completion
Programme, milestones and how delays are handled.
03 · Changes
Written approval of additional cost and time before variations proceed.
04 · Quality
Approved samples, inspection stages and acceptance criteria.
05 · Rectification
Defect reporting, response process and applicable warranty terms.
This example sets no contract terms. Payments, defects and warranties are set in your proposal.
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