I seriously was not prepared for the destruction inside Chris and Amie's Exeter home when I walked through the door - the front of the red brick terraced house looked relatively normal! I'll give it to Royal Marine Chris, he's a man who knows how to take a house back to brick 🙂 If you... Continue Reading →
Half Built House Perthshire – Charcoal gloss kitchen, upcycling a dresser & making a table
For me, planning a kitchen is something that can't be done off-site in an office somewhere. To really get a proper feel for the room and get the best design possible, I prefer to stand in it and imagine where the chef would prep food, use the sink, do the cooking and interact with family... Continue Reading →
Half Built House Perthshire – Metal magic!
The super contemporary kitchen images sent through by our Perthshire family would have been easy to replicate if we'd had the money for a designer Italian kitchen, but getting it on our budget and also adding in those essential traditional twists proved somewhat more difficult. Salvation came in two local metal magicians. One was Brian... Continue Reading →
Half Built House Perthshire Spindlegate – rescuing some dangerous stairs
Ah Spindlegate. The straw that almost broke poor Danny's joinery back right at the end of our Scottish project. It had been touch & go throughout the job whether we'd the time and could stretch the budget to help the family out with their dangerous stairs. The kitchen and treatment room were the main priorities... Continue Reading →
Half Built House Perthshire – The treatment room & making a driftwood mirror
The front of this Perthshire home was divided by the front door / hallway into two rooms, one which the family used as their living room and one which was destined to become a treatment room where hypnotherapy work could be done with clients. When we arrived the room was filled with furniture and had... Continue Reading →
Half Built House Perthshire – Getting started and design inspiration
On our Perthshire Half Built House, the building and design works had to get going at the same time though even thinking about things like colours, fabrics and finishes may seem premature when you're trying to address a building site! All the decisions tie up together at the end, so must be thought through as... Continue Reading →
Half Built House Perthshire – The ‘before’ shots
It was SO very hard not to tweet and share images of the homes we transformed during the filming of Half Built House... honestly for a design over-sharer like me, it nearly killed me! Finally our first show has aired and I can talk about what was done 🙂 Most of the ground floor of... Continue Reading →
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