Chapter 6 of 7 · 2013
Making it a home
Render, rooms, garden, finishing
Scaffolding down, render on, joinery, electrics, curtains, a hydropool, a projector room, and the small things that turn a building into somewhere we eat, sleep and watch films. The last diary entries of the build.
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A bit of furniture...
We have a favourite shop for furniture in Matlock, Derbyshire. They're called Indigo Furniture , and we'd already bought our dining table and the kids bunk beds from them previously. So when we saw this corner sofa that
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Progress report Feb 2013
Well, it may look like not much has been happening since before christmas, and we've certainly slowed down because of the weather, but we're nearly weather tight now. In fact, we're hoping to be fully tight in the next c
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Windows and Doors
All our windows and doors have been made by Ian "the wood" Cappleman of Chapel Joinery and all our glazing has been done by Humberside Glazing . They all need one more coat of the Sikkens ebony stain we're using to get t
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Concrete, Cladding and Render
This is the junction between our bedroom concrete fireplace, the rendered wall and the cladding up to the roof. Absolutely beautiful. Jem's architectural design is shining through.
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The render is on!
Well, after waiting since November for a gap in the weather, the render is finally on and finished! Kieran and the lads have done a brilliant job, we can't be happier. This now means that we can get the cladding on, the
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The scaffolding has come down!
Well, this was a bit of a momentous occasion. A bit overwhelming if I'm honest. We finally get to see our house pretty much as it will be, give or take a bit of touching up. We've now got a schedule for moving in. We hav
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A couple more pics...
My mate, Stewart came round yesterday and took these pics. He's designing some bespoke controls for the Gwyndow for us as a pressie!
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Aerial Pic
My dad. who is now a resident of Thorne - he's staying with us until we move into our new house, then he's having our old house - took this pic while flying a Cessna from Robin Hood.... Instgrammed...
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Morphing progress
I've updated my morphing catalogue of pictures of the rear of the cinema... nearly done! The Vimeo copy is gone. The one-second clips from that 4am session are here, finished with Dan's photograph from the garden.
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Graham Ball Joiners
We've been working with Graham Ball Joiners on the cladding of the gwyndow / dindow / whatever - the hydraulic door, and they came to install it the other day. It looks amazing! They used accoya wood which is softwood th
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Aerial photo of front
Has anyone got any suggestions what to paint on the roof?
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If you want HD TV anywhere in your house...
...use HD Anywhere! After looking at loads of systems, this is the simplest, easiest, and best value system on the market. Down one wire, it sends full HD (and 3D if you like), high speed internet, Infra Red controls and
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Virtue Electrical Engineering
Gary Brown of Virtue Electrical Engineering is doing all our electrical work, including power, lighting, audio-visual, thermostat control, burglar alarm, fire alarm etc - everything. What I like best about Gary is the am
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Reflection
We bought the old Kensington PIcture House in February 2011, so this 'project' has been going on for over two years now, even more if you include the months trying to buy it. And now, we find ourselves on the edge of bei
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Baffled?
As our open living space is basically a concrete box, we needed something to stop it being an echo chamber, so we've made some baffles which we've stuck to the ceiling, meaning we've left the ceiling as the raw, unfinish
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Hero of the Month
Luke 'the brick' Arnold has helped us build our house in many ways, and not just building and repairing our brickwork. He has laid our concrete floor and done all the drainage as well. Here's a picture of Luke 'the pipe'
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Things that have really worked for us...
We're nearly ready to move in now, maybe a week or so. I can't believe how beautiful the house is, at least to me. I've been thinking about all the things we've done and especially the things that have really worked for
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A bit of a difference...
Facade dissolve from Gwyn ap Harri on Vimeo .
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Carl Lindley Decorator
Carl has been a great part of the team, quietly transforming a building into a home, tirelessly decorating our house from top to bottom. From the seamless white walls and staircase, to the rich but light stain of the iro
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Shelly's finishing touches...
We were really struggling with our interior finishes until, by recommendation, Shelly Horridge of Aspire Interiors came to our rescue! Shelly has done our window box seat, lush velvet bed head as well as all our curtains
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Matt Brewster's art
The original, painted artwork in our lounge is by Matt Brewster . It's called "Dancing to silence". We think it's beautiful, especially when you can see the brushstrokes. Although Jac & Dylan like to call it "woman w
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Our Hydropool is cool!
Iain from Crightons Hydropool pulled out all the stops to make sure our pool was in to finish the house off for GD with style! Rich & his team worked around the clock to get our decking in as well. We've been using i
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Rich Wilson, superstar builder...
We had a great team building our house, from our labourers to our architect, but we've got to say that Richard Wilson is our superstar! I remember the point in time when I stood next to Rich on the gallery seating in the
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Great photos
Dan Sumption, my friend, took some great photos of our house! This is the house finished — the most accurate record we have of how it looked when the work was done. Thanks Dan!!!