In this episode of Stories That Sell, I’m joined by Oxfordshire-based Clare Nash, architect, author, mentor and founder of Clare Nash Architecture, for a conversation about sustainable homes, solo travel, questioning the expected path and designing a life that actually works.

Clare’s route into architecture wasn’t exactly straightforward. She grew up around building sites, originally wanted to be a racing engineer, studied interior architecture, retrained as an architect and later travelled alone through places including China, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and South America while researching sustainable housing.

One of the stories we talk about is Clare travelling across China to visit a cave-dwelling settlement, taking two trains, a bus and then walking for an hour to get there. Not exactly your average research trip.

After coming back from six months of travel during a recession, Clare had no job, no savings and no clients. So she started her architecture practice with postcards in local shop windows, a very simple website and a lot of determination.

We talk about homes, family rhythms, why people often think they need more space when they actually need better space, and why Clare believes good design should support how you want to live, not make life harder.

We also talk about building a flexible business before flexible working was normal, designing around real life, and why Clare has never been interested in following the traditional route just because everyone else does it that way.

This episode is for anyone who wants to question the way things have always been done and create a home, business or life that feels more like them.

Connect with Clare:
clarenasharchitecture.co.uk / clarenash.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/clarenasharchitect
instagram.com/clare_nash_architecture

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