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Did you make any tough decisions to try and keep the costings on track? Often 'getting what we wanted' means: 'you can have windows that size, but they will have-to-have massive frames to come in on budget' (or similar).
JonoMarshall-
Hmmm... not really... although wee didn't go nuts. We talked through what we wanted and gave numerous references, which they said were unachievable with our budget but said something close to would be achievable with interior compromises.
We have gone with much less scale than we wanted, if we paired back our finish choices we would be within budget but for a much smaller scale build, if that makes sense?
chrisbmx116
From my experience, and of course it could just be me... (and the fact my budget was small).
I had 3 architects come round, all were confident we could get what we wanted within budget, it'll be tough, but it's doable.
We chose a decent but cheap architect (around 1/2 the price of the others who wanted 10K wish for stages 1-5) and we are now at the final costing stages, where they price it down to the nails (these guys do build to) and we are currently looking at 20k over budget for an extension that is about half the size they all claimed was possible.
Not sure what I am suggesting your talk away is from that, but I would be inclined to suggest architects are terrible at estimating costs.