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.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Contractor goes bust

You couldn't really make it up but we've just learned the contractor has folded...

It throws everything back up in the air, just as we thought we were on the final lap. Only yesterday the contractor confirmed details of the remaining programme, probably at the same time as the receivers rolled into his car park. How honest is that?!

It is rapidly becoming clear that the last few months have been a based on an elaborate strategy of smoke and mirrors, interspersed with outright lies. Now we're left to untangle the mess.