Sunday, June 07, 2009

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Sunny May









These images are dedicated to Tomomi.

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Exterior cladding II





The last picture I could take before the camera battery died on me. The fabric getting in the way is a temporary screen while we assess our curtain options.

Exterior cladding

Using the timer function on my camera I took a picture every 30secs of the charring of the cladding for the ground floor.








17 photos which works out at about 8 minutes for 13 boards.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Some semi finished images








One of my favourite things about the house is this accidental Z:

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Front door clad in burnt oak







Lots of splitting due to some of the short lengths involved.
The burning started back in January

Saturday, February 07, 2009

WE MOVED IN



The hardest days work on the project so far!
Thanks to everyone!

Friday, February 06, 2009

Handrails





Our lovely Scottish oak handrails ruined by the temporary plywood fall arrest...

Late at night - painting the timber floors

Again thanks to Paul!






and Neil! We are working 15 hour days this week as we have to move in on the 7th February 2009.

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Finishing the timber

I've designed the upstairs floor to be light, in contrast to the dark ground floor and so we try out a few methods of doing this, before settling on a standard wood paint watered down 25% with paint thinner.




Bottom right is a test with beeswax for another part of the project.

The staircase gets clad in timber





Laying solid wood floor

Laying the floor turns out to be breeze thanks to one of the best tools we have used on this job:



The flooring handnailer.
The timber is Poplar, an incredibly soft hardwood that I wouldn't recommend unless you take your shoes off like us.