make mistakes, so long as they rectify them and learn from them in the future. “We’re big on experimentation,” he says, “and part of experimenting is sometimes you make mistakes. That’s normal. If you expect not to ever make mistakes, you’re going to be disappointed. We know mistakes happen and we try to learn from every one of them.” As an example of such a mistake, Abubakar cites an issue they had with the width of their baseboards after they made the decision to increase the ceiling heights in their houses. They found that higher ceilings opened up their homes a lot more, that buyers felt the spaces were more liveable and less claustrophobic. “But what we learned is that once you increase the height of the ceiling, the room becomes a lot bigger, so the baseboards have to increase in size just to become proportionate,” Abubakar explains. “That’s somethingwe had to learn. Now we know that, as a standard, we have to give bigger baseboards because we want to go with the higher ceilings. Those are the kinds of lessons we’re constantly learning.” SEPTEMBER 2022
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