Our Chanel / Jo Malone liner luxury bathroom is featured in February's Ideal Home magazine, and is looking goooooood 🙂 Appointed by the client to design and install a 1930's inspired bathroom in a six week period whilst her mum was away - came in on schedule and on budget, and stylish enough to be... Continue Reading →
Rose Cottage by name and nature, walls go pink!
Apart from the ripping out stage, when the bare bones of a house are first revealed, another of  my favourite stages is when the plasterboard goes on. It's when spaces suddenly become rooms and you can start to see the shape of things to come 🙂 Rose Cottage is only tiny and every inch counts... Continue Reading →
Rose Cottage – specifying the Georgian style bathroom
Getting back on specifying track after yesterday's ferret finding adventures, and today's task is to order lights and the bathroom for Rose Cottage. Our furry friend made the local 5 o'clock news on Channel M which was very funny, but it was my lamp post 'found' posters and asking at a local MOT station with nosey... Continue Reading →
Rose Cottage – Squatters rights! A ferret takes residence
It was hectic last week with Xmas do's, my birthday and a family wedding in Durham, but this week things have calmed down again and it's back to work at Rose Cottage - plus all the preparations necessary for the week before Christmas of course.... Although it still looks like a total bomb site, now's... Continue Reading →
Rose Cottage – goodbye plastic, hello timber
It's been a hive of activity in little Rose Cottage this last week, I hope that little house will never hold quite so many sweating men in it again - I rely upon the virtue of the owner for that...Hi Hannah 😉 .... and things have really moved on. There have been surprises, the leak... Continue Reading →
Design: Rose Cottage – Holy Moly we have collapsing walls
Now, without being pernickety, I think this timber lintel, buried deep in the front elevation of the Georgian Rose Cottage and revealed when the first floor plaster was removed, was just about on it's last legs.... hard to imagine that this was actually supporting a brick wall. Or rather was supporting it, but was... Continue Reading →
He will have a bloody injury if he doesn’t get out of my office
I have had many injuries over the last few years and him indoors has always been wonderful. Fetching, carrying, shopping, cleaning, cooking. Actually, no, not cooking, what am I talking about?! I did that even when my hands were red raw with granulomas, wearing gloves. He knows better than to try and take over in... Continue Reading →
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