Any idea what this is? Clue in second photo.
On site recently and impressed to see that George, the site manager, had made tools to ensure the plaster is struck to a perfect 45 degree angle for our corner bead details. Great attention to detail, as always, from the inimitable @bluedoorconstructionltd
Beautiful late summer visit to see a country house in Suffolk we restored and remodelled several years ago. Our work has settled down, the landscape has grown and embraced the changes and our clients have added warmth. What started out as a house with good bones but showing the scars of a comprehensive programme of unfortunate alterations (including a full size squash court where once there were kitchens and servants bedrooms) has become the most enchanting house and landscape; welcoming, serene and really rather special.
Views of an octagonal landing designed for a country house in Suffolk. We also designed the doors, architraves, skirtings and plaster cornice, and supplied scale and full size setting out drawings to the builder (who eventually forgave us for a complicated design requiring complete precision).
1. View of ceiling
2. View during construction
3. View on completion
First coat of lime render going on, the sun is shining down on our Suffolk project and we’ve just enjoyed a very positive site visit to check details.
Channelling our inner Lutyens while detailing internal elevations and flooring layout for a Loggia in Suffolk.
Lovely seeing a Thomas Jeckyll fire grate we sourced offered up to cut tile detailing we designed. Some rather special details beginning to appear on site.
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Rummaging through a plan chest I found a drawing from 2007, which I designed while learning the ropes of architecture in the busy and beautiful Norfolk country house office of Charles Morris LVO.
The oak leaf stone tablet I designed formed a small part of an extensive range of buildings we were designing with @benpentreath for @limewoodhotel.
Seeing old work often goes one of two ways; embarrassment, or a pleasant surprise. Above all, it’s rather nice to be reminded of a very happy formative office experience, nearly 20 years ago!
Atmospheric visit to Poltalloch House in fading evening light. 🏴
The ruin is a vast and accomplished work by the master of nineteenth century country house design, William Burn. Here the architect responded to his client’s site with extreme skill; an elevated and broad shelf of land looking picturesquely towards the shore of Loch Crinan dictated a linear neo Jacobean design, without Burn’s usual attic floor and dormers, but enlivened by a regiment of chimneys, finials and strapwork crowned bay windows. The interior was richly detailed and of palatial scale.
