The clients have been considering options for the flooring in the kitchen / dining area for a few weeks and now a final decision has been made, not stone or ceramic or vinyl, but rubber! Supplied by Sam from local firm The Rubber Flooring Company. The colour chosen is the pale blue above which you'd... Continue Reading →
Project Payne – finally photographed! Bathroom first…
Back in August 2010 I wrote a post about Project Payne, a one bed rental apartment we'd just started renovating in a back to brick refurb: https://moregeous.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/tips-project-payne-replacement-joist-ends/ At the same time we were also under pressure to redesign and complete Green Tea restaurant in record time, so there wasn't a minute to photograph Payne before... Continue Reading →
Project J’s bath is fitted and the retro vibe kitchen arrives
Loving the look of Project J's bathroom so far, the white metro tiles are on the wall (mostly!), the monochrome mosaic floor tiles are down and the double ended bath has been fitted, it already feels a million miles from the bathroom it was just a short time ago. We started painting the newly plastered... Continue Reading →
A spot of property mentoring on BBC3’s How To Live With Women
I wrote this in Dec 2010 after doing a few days filming for BBC3 and Renegade on a show called How to Live With Women. I had my wrists slapped as it was all very hush hush but I think that as the first two episodes have been shown now, with ours happening tonight, I... Continue Reading →
Project J gets halfway to a new metro monochrome bathroom
There actually wasn't an awful lot 'wrong' with Project J's bathroom before we started work last week, other than that the wrong paint had been used straight on top of bare plaster / board and had started to peel off in the humidity, plus the radiator needed updating. However, the clients hated their bathroom and... Continue Reading →
Project Pizza gets some new extra high skirting to match the originals
Unusually for a rental apartment refurbished in the 70's, Project Pizza has retained a handful of original features, namely the extravagant ceiling rose in the living room, the elaborate coving (see below) and finally the only remaining extra height original skirting boards in the building, which I really wanted to keep. It had been ripped... Continue Reading →
The RBS gets squatters and Project Pizza gets tenants
As an ex-customer, I was never particularly enamoured with my local RBS, always very slow plus quite rude employees, but I have to say I didn't consider protesting quite as vehemently as this weekend's new inhabitants of the residential flat above the branch in West Didsbury, Manchester. I'd also never found squatters remotely amusing before... Continue Reading →
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