I'm Simon Lambert, and you're listening to a special This Is Money podcast bonus episode where I'll be doing one of our occasional interviews.

And this is Money, we love a property story and we love a property makeover show on the TV to settle down in front of Grand Designs, George Clark, your home made perfect.

So when I stumbled across a startup called Peak Home,

which can take your home or the home you want to buy's estate agent details and floor plans

and then show you what you can do with it, obviously I had to find out more.

Today I'm joined by Rowley Glancy of Peak Home to tell us a little bit more about it.

Roley, welcome to the This Is Money podcast.

Hi, Simon. So, Peacombe, tell me a little bit about the idea behind the business and what it does.

Yeah, sure. So, Peacombeam, as you said, is very simply, it's a really easy way to visualize the potential for your property with plans that are professionally designed.

And, yeah, the idea came from when myself and my wife were looking at and buying our first house, we kind of wanted to get an idea of what it would look like. We looked at the estate agency details and that gave you

some pictures and a floor plan, but it was still quite difficult to imagine exactly what the

house would be like until we got to go to the viewing.

So as it happened, I studied architecture at university, and so through that, I had learned how to use 3D modelling software.

And so I was able to build a quick 3D model of the house from the estate agency plans and then we could imagine

what that house would be like start imagining how we might be able to knock down some walls or

rearrange the ground floor, rearrange the kitchen, etc. And to get a really good idea of the house,

really, and the potential for it. And this is a very different process, maybe born out of the same thing, but I remember when we bought our house, which was a house that needed work doing on it,

sitting down with photocopies of the floor plan that I'd made and a ruler and a pencil and sketching onto it a sort of what if we

did this room here and moved that wall there and squared it off at the back there.

You, as you said, you generate a sort of 3D model for people, don't you?

So people can actually envisage in a certain sense what it would feel like than looking at it just flat on a plan.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

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