Kitchen bench seat with storage. Edged in 24mm Birch ply…. Mdf to be painted and cushions made by client…
Storage projects
Storage projects.
Fitted wardrobes and bookshelves for a bedroom.
Ongoing renovations: to a Victorian terraced house kitchen and garden… Doorway enlarged and new oak cottage stable door and frame fitted, insulation and plasterboard to ceiling, all walls plasterboarded… New boiler and electrics… Kitchen coming…
New Howdens kitchen fitted. Corka flooring, kitchen bench seat and shelves made and fitted, boiler boxed in… Waiting finishing decorations…
Scale drawings for American-style wood cabin… All timber build, with mezzanine floor and cabin room bordered with decked verandah and overhanging metal cladco roof… Waney edged cladding to exterior walls, high-level of insulation and water-proofing with log burner inside for the cosy winter nights…
Timber garage renovation
This 1920s garage frontage was in need of renovation… cumbersome rotten doors and timbers were removed. A new structural framework was needed to re-tie gable end of garage and to take new bespoke circular window – with commissioned stained-glass and new thermowood shiplap-cladding. New timber-doors and frame painted and fitted with push-button lock and re-used internal bolts etc. Access was added for power via hidden sliding cladding section… Weather-vein added the finishing touch.
Garden studio room
This 4x3M artist’s studio is set on easy pad foundations. Finished externally in shiplap Siberian Larch, with Aluminium French doors and a southwest picture window for maximum daylight. Armored electric cables feed the power for heat and lighting whilst rainwater is recycled for use in the studio, data cable from router gives internet connection. Fully insulated floor, walls and roof, vapour barrier too. Plaster-skim inside for finish. Built to last and to enjoy.
Garden office and garden room
This 6x3M timber build is split into two areas: a 3x3M fully insulated (floor, walls, roof) office with power & heat and a 3x3M ‘open’ room which will be finished with decking, lights and music system to enjoy the garden throughout the year. A log & tool store is to built on one end. The building will be finished externally with Thermowood treated Scandinavian pine – which can be painted too…
renovations and carpentry…
A house move required some new storage to be built and fitted between two sitting room alcoves. Supplied and fitted pre-primed for the clients to finish painting. The cupboard units have adjustable shelves, push-to-open doors and a pull-out shelf to charge iPads/phones… A map light is to be fitted on the top fascia of the shelving unit.
This client wanted to refresh the front door of this Edwardian terraced house by replacing the existing front door with a reclaimed stained glass door and stripping back the frame to timber. The door was fixed-up, re-glued, filled, stained then oiled, and the frame sanded back and filled & stained where necessary too. A new stained glass unit is being made to fix above the door soon…
The client was unhappy with the existing bannisters and dodgy hand-rails in this 1930s house. They were replaced with new hemlock hand-rails and spindles which will be varnished by the client…
new porch design
The clients want a small porch, built under permitted development, to the front of their house. The house currently has a single pitch tiled overhang and the simple new design will maximise the light getting into their new hallway, with a small roof overhang to keep the weather off, supported by a bespoke steel bracket. Porch to be timber built…
flat roof repaired
The existing tar roof had failed and has been letting water in. There are a number of cracks where hot summers and cold winters have combined to break it down enough for the ceiling below to sag and the plaster to drop…
The most economical fix was to leave the existing roof covering in place and bond and weld a new resitrix membrane over it. The roof is now waterproof for many years to come…
Bi-folding doors
… The existing french doors and windows were single pane and therefore cold in the winter – as well as not letting enough light in too. Removing them and the two low side-walls has opened the kitchen into the garden, and will provide much better thermal qualities in winter and summers to come…
extension design drawings
… for rear extension and bike storage area – working on these for a new client…
Attic conversion
In this 1920s semi, a busy internet entrepreneur required the unused loft space to be converted into a well insulated office space – with good light, power and lots of storage. Structural steels were needed to take the new floor and to build the supporting stud walls from – which also housed the cupboards for the large eves storage areas. In order to fit the new staircase, two of the first floor rooms also required some re-design and structural modifications to accommodate it.
kitchen extension/renovation
This 1920s semi needed an extensive renovation to the rear kitchen and -conservatory-extension. The rear wall of the house was removed and new piers built to take the steel beams required for the knock-through. The cold and poorly-built extension/conservatory was demolished and new footings dug for the re-building process. A liquid screed floor was supplied on top of the newly insulated slab which was finished in engineered oak planks. A downstairs shower-room was added, new kitchen fitted with oak worktops and structural steels finished with intumescent paint for fire regs and clad underneath in t&g oak with led lighting for display! All Design and build by RWDB…
bespoke steps with storage and ‘floating’ kitchen bench seat…
shelving and storage…
for various spaces…
Extension completed…
converting a flat ‘cold’ roof to a ‘warm one’
This job involves converting around 30 square metres of ‘cold’ type flat roof – where the insulation is between the rafters under the roofing panel sheets/membrane – to a ‘warm’ one – where the insulation is now above the roof panels – this type of roof does not need to be ventilated like a cold roof type and is more thermally efficient. We’re also fitting a large triple-glazed roof-light window and a new domed one too. All the existing, old school, felt was stripped and binned and the exising ply upgraded with better panelling. New timbers have been added to make the new large window opening. The new roofing ply is then topped with a vapour barrier membrane, solid insulation boards then added and taped, then the vapour barrier is wrapped around boards and taped too. The top layer will be Osb board and then EPDM single ply membrane – to come…
the existing ‘cold’ type felt roof before works started…
Bespoke interior of timber-framed extension
Almost there… bespoke oak vaulted-ceiling with concealed led lighting and fan, electric flat roof windows with solar blinds. Concealed sockets in oak floor with underfloor heating…
Adjustable shelving…
As part of a number of shelving-storage builds for a local academic, I’ve made these adjustable shelves – they should take around 1200 paper-backs… Before and after pictures below…
and some more…
