It's that knackering, back-breaking but quite fabulous time of the development at Rose Cottage - everything is covered in dust, men (and I) are running round like crazy, radiators are leaking, rollers are dripping with paint, floors are drying and it's finally starting to look like a house, WHOO HOO!! The (heavy!) kitchen was lugged... Continue Reading →
Property tip – The Bath Surgeon visits Liner Luxe; steel versus acrylic
No building work ever goes without a hitch, no matter how great the builder, but sometimes things happen which really try your patience, and you just think, why me?! When we were fitting the Liner Luxe bathroom featured in Ideal Home Feb 2010, the client specified a steel bath rather than acrylic. Who'd have thought... Continue Reading →
How to get Style on a Shoestring, Interiors Birmingham 2010
Interiors Birmingham 2010 was a marginally more relaxed affair for me in 2010 as there was no filming with Channel M. Instead I ambled around at my leisure, sourcing products, interviewing for a trends dissertation and meeting new contacts. In my dreams! In fact, I raced around, trying to fit in all of the above,... 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 →
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 →
Design: Rose Cottage – Choosing the opaque glass for bathroom windows
There are a tonne of decisions to be made on any house renovation, and if you aren't that experienced then these decisions should be made (a) before the job starts and then (b) stuck to, thus ensuring few increases in costs and a smooth running contract. One advantage of having a project manager / interior... Continue Reading →
Knocking through from small living room to kitchen
This is, for me, by far and away the most exciting time of any development - the ripping out of all the hideous 'before' stuff and opening up the house or apartment or building back to bare brick. Once thats done, you really get a feel for a space, and therefore also the potential of... Continue Reading →
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