We had the absolute pleasure of having Katayama-san draw plans for our first house. From our first meeting, we felt like we could rely on him (we had met with a few other architects and builders at that point) and that feeling lasted till the handover a month ago. In making the decision to choose him over others, we were not only satisfied with his trustworthy professionalism, but also his sense of aesthetics and attention to detail.
I think it must have taken only a couple of meetings in the beginning to finalize the overall layout, because it was clear that he had put quite a bit of thought into it and we found it easy to agree with most of his decisions. Over the next few meetings til...