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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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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 with big butt”…
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In the news…
The Sunday Times The Daily Mail Some tasty comments under the Mail article! I’m just going to ignore the silly ones… I’d just like to say THANK YOU! to all the amazingly nice and positive comments and emails people are … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 would be perfect … Continue reading
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Press
Now that me and Kate are the Posh and Becks of Thorne, we often get the ‘paps’ round, so we like to get our best pout on. As you can see from the photo below, we always try to look … Continue reading
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telly
So, Kate really didn’t want to do it, but when I accidentally let slip to the kids that they could be on the telly, erm…. sorry about that Kate. It was an accident. Honest. So the Grand Designs crew have … Continue reading
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Pictures
I showed my dad around the cinema, and he took a few photos. https://picasaweb.google.com/112123649667463044391/13Oct2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCL3avM3akpqlywE&feat=email#slideshow/5663090916996202130
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Dindow!
ok, in our original designs, we have a full height (about 4m) window in the dining area that opens up outside. In the plans, it pivoted to create a canopy. Only thing is, we didn’t know how / if it … Continue reading
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Bats!
Well, as part of the planning process our plans get sent to various depts in the council. We got the ecology one back, and they said that because of the age and ‘abandonment’ of the building we’ll need to have … Continue reading
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Doncaster Design Review Panel
Tuesday 10th May 2011 Kensington Cinema Conversion, Thorne Pre-Application The Panel received a presentation from Senior Design and Conservation Officer Peter Lamb on the proposal to convert and develop the site of a former cinema in the centre of Thorne. … Continue reading
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