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- Wilsons Construction Richard Wilson is the amazing builder that constructed our house
Our architect
- Works Architecture Jem Southgate is the brilliant designer of our house
Home Cinema
- AVID4U Jim expertly installed our kit perfectly.
- Bowers & Wilkins The coolest speakers in the world, and British!
- Epson UK Our projector that looks like a spaceship…
- Sevenoaks Sound & Vision Richard Meadmore, you are our hero! The guy that made it happen…
- Yamaha UK Our Blu-ray and amazing amplifier…
We are using...
- AC Fabrications all our steelwork (balustrade, cap pings, fireplaces, lighting bases…)
- Aspire Interiors Shelly Horridge does all our curtains, blinds, upholstery etc – all the nice soft things…
- Bennetts Timber Our thermowood cladding came from Bennetts. Cheers!
- Bio Fires We got our bio gel fire trays from these guys!
- BuildStore Our mortgage agents
- Carl Lindley Decorator Carl decorated the whole of our house from top to bottom, inside and out!
- Carr Restoration Dave Carr ground and polished our beautiful concrete floor.
- CBS engineering Chris Brown has worked with Jem before and is doing all our structural design
- Chapel Joinery Ian Cappleman is doing our carpentry stuff, like windows and that.
- Crightons Hydropool are supplying us with our amazing Hydropool
- Dawson and Burgess Roger Williams is dealing with all our legal stuff. Thanks Roger!
- DSR Demolition DSR are helping us demolish the auditorium
- Earthworks Cheri LaMay designs beautiful gardens!
- Fiddler Construction Sean is doing all our concrete for us
- Graham Ball Joiners Graham and Shaun clad our hydraulic door with a high performing wood frame and glass
- Gwindow Our amazing “Gwindow!” – get one for yourself here
- HD Anywhere Our cool TV and internet distribution system
- Historic Lighting The bits we needed to put together our dangly lights
- Howarth Timber General stuff and branded hard hats…
- Humberside Glazing They are doing our glazing – believe it or not…
- Indigo Furniture for things of beauty, go here…
- Ipswich Building Society For our mortgage
- JMP Consultants These guys sorted our issues with highways planning and parking at the front. Brilliant!
- K. R. Reclamation These guys blast clean anything and everything.
- Kieran Taylor Rendering The lads did a brilliant job on our white rendering
- Luke Arnold is doing all our brick related jobs for us
- Magnet Ant from Magnet Kitchens was a star, helping us beyond the call of duty!
- Matt Brewster Matt’s beautiful artwork adorns our lounge wall
- Natasha Estrada She did our bat survey
- Richard Wilson Our builder and our friend!
- RMD Kwikform suppliers of our concrete formwork
- Spinks Suppliers of bricks and loads of other stuff
- Stainforth Carpets Our cinema room carpet came from our pals at Stainy Carpets
- Thomas Crapper Supplied us with the finest ‘bog’ in Thorne…
- Travis Perkins For big bags of sand left in strategic places…
- Virtue Electrical Engineering Ltd All electrical stuff and Audio Visual niceties
- Works Architecture Jem Southgate is the brilliant designer of our house
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All we wanted was a bigger garden…
Yeah… we’ve said to lots of people that the main reason we wanted to move from our existing house is that we wanted a bigger garden for our kids to run around in, and it’s absolutely true! To find ourselves … Continue reading
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All about the Benjamins…
I guess the two questions people have about our project is “how much is it going to cost?” and “when will you be in by?”, especially now that we’re going to be on Grand Designs, where every project always seems … Continue reading
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Hydropool!
well, we’ve literally ‘splashed out’ here, but I think this is going to make our home amazing. Our family love swimming, and we’d love to have a swimming pool, who wouldn’t? But you can only really have an indoor swimming … Continue reading
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A pause in development
We were hoping to get cracking on the development straight after xmas, but a couple of things happened. We knew the results of the trial pits could affect the structural design, and they did. Because the foundations were sound, we … Continue reading
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What are we doing?
Seems like I’ve been asked this question a MILLION times over the last few days, in all contexts! Right now, there’s so many aspects to this answer, and I want to record my thoughts on this now, so we can … Continue reading
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The trials and tribulations of getting planning permission
Planning permission takes ‘up to’ 8 weeks right? That meant we should have got a decision by 19th July right? Well, what happens is you submit your plans and this gets sent off to the various departments. Some come back … Continue reading
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Planning model video
This model was used to show the Design Review Panel. We’ve not seen their official comments yet, but apparently it was received very favourably! They all want to come and see it when it’s done anyway!
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The planning application is in!
ok, so we put the planning application in on Friday afternoon. We now have to wait for it to be validated. This means that DMBC planning dept will look at it and tell us if it’s complete. This will happen … Continue reading
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