Bespoke cupboards…

An old poor quality storage area was removed and  a more substantial cupboard was build, using architrave and skirting-board milled’ to match the existing Edwardian styles used. An existing door was re-cycled to tie the cupboard in with the rest of the house…

This wall and both doorways were built as part of this job. Again all architrave, picture rail and skirting-board was milled’ to match and the doors used re-claimed…

 

Extension drawings

© R.WHITEMAN 2017

My own architectural designs for an ornate extension featuring a curved copper roof, bespoke curved lazer-cut powdered coated trellis and hidden box guttering. The copper roof will slowly weather to a verdigris colour to blend-in with the especially painted trellis…

 

1930s house renovations…

Old kitchen doorway removed, blocked up and window replaced with long window in readiness for new fitted kitchen. The single storey extension roof has had its flat/vaulted ceiling removed, the rafters system strengthened and new velux windows added to bring in some much-needed daylight. Insulation and plaster-boarding next…

original vaulted/flat ceiling removed for more space/high ceiling…
original rafters doubled-up to strengthen roof and new velux roof-lights bring light into extension…

kitchen door removed and blocked-up. New window gives nice view of garden from the (soon to be fitted) kitchen…

kitchen units all now fitted – complete with cream quartz worktop which will last forever!

The small bathroom had a separate toilet next to it. Now knocked-through into one bigger room with two windows. The corner wall has been partly blocked up to allow for a shower mixer in the new bath…

The bathroom has been now fitted with a ‘shaker style’ obscured-glass door, plastered and tiled – waiting for the plumber to do his thing’

Modernisation of windows bays, 1920s house.

The two first floor window bays of this detached 1920s house are clad with the original clay tiles that have decayed and darkened over time. The owner now wants to modernise and lighten the look of the bays by replacing them with cedar strip-cladding which itself will go silver over time… The old battens have been stripped and new ones fitted. The new cedar cladding arrives this week…

 

The edges of the new cedar bays have now been rendered to match the original house finish…

Renovations of photographic/artists’ studio begins…

Renovation and build of an artists’ and photographic studio.

Phase 1 of this interesting renovation project: removing the old, cold and leaky plastic roof, and in its place, building a new timber structure with a two-part flat roof finished with long-life EPDM roofing membrane. Temporary plastic coverings have been put in place until new bespoke timber roof-lanterns are built and ready to install…

 

 

Roof exterior showing the temporary plastic coverings on the up-stands built to carry the new roof lanterns that are due soon…