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.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

"Where's the tap?!"


It’s been the cause of a fair amount of head-scratching over the last couple of days. The Kohler Laminar faucet fills the new bath with a solid stream of water, ejecting straight out of the wall. With not a single conventional bath tap in sight, the plumber, architect and builder were all visibly perplexed as to how this would integrate with the bath. And with only basic fitting instructions available, it’s down to the plumber to make this piece of pure design work in practice.