It's what dreams are made of and nightmares kindled: Most home owners aspire to it; some take a few tentative steps and fewer still are crazy enough to go the full hog! This blog shares some of the trials and tribulations of a major redevelopment of a 1950s home through a cataclysmic transformation which retains the best of the last Century while metamorposing the property into a design classic fit for today's living.

Sunday, June 11, 2006

"I don't get on with architects"


...said the joiner. "They give us really tough designs and just tell us to get on with it!" The new box guttering comes into this category. An absolute pain to make, as you can't go to the builder's merchant and buy a length to this specification. So the stuff has to be made on site, to the dismay of the joinery team. Things are not exactly racing ahead but the guttering is looking pretty good. As this will also be wrapped in stainless steel, it's important to get it right. It will take another couple of days before it's all done.