Cast and Crew

credits

….. for without whom ……

thank you xxxx

Adrian Hopper

Anna Grieve

Ardian Hodgetts

Bron Bradshaw

Charlotte May

Daniel Blaker

Dave Chadburn

Dave Sharland

David Williams

Ella

Eliot Allison

Graeme Warner

Greg

Hugh and Candida

Jake Terry

Jane Heather

Joel Hopper

Joff Winterhart

John Cartwright

Karen and Leonard

Kieran Bright

Lisa Griffiths

Louis King

Louise

Louise Hill

Lucy Roberts

Mark Burton

Mark The Gas Man

Martha King

Michael Jones

Michael Stevenson

Michael Wells

Mike Meehan

Nick Chadburn

Paul Stubbs

Peter and Dot

Dot and Peter

Rachel Abbiss

Richard

Rohan Simpson Black

Sam Brettingham

Sean Patten

Simon Roberts

Stephen Clarke

Sue Palmer

Tom Stubbs

 

The End

march / arpil / may 2016

settling in

many visitors, lunches, guests to stay and building the veranda

and leaving the workshop

Lisa cooking

Anna preparing lunch

i love my uphostry

i love my uphostry

i love my uphostry

i love my uphostry

i love my uphostry

David and Susan visiting

Faking it

Daniel cooking

We made this

Daniel washing up

Guest’s quarters

Easy access cupboards

building the veranda

building the veranda

building the veranda

building the veranda

I feel I’m not being taken seriously

building the veranda

building the veranda

building the veranda

building the veranda

building the veranda

Dad supervises Adrian

building the veranda

Veranda steps

burning the old steps from HELL!

building the veranda

building the veranda

Matha accesses the cupboards

Feature alcove with retro clock

The team (oh dear)

Dave the Landlord

sad to be leaving the workshop after 3 1/2 years

the end

bye!

The Cabin Is Moving

Monday 15th February 2016

With much help from Dave, Adrian and Paul, the cabin set off to its new home ……

So far so good…..

Off we go!

Scraping the cabin down the steep track

Serious stuff

Cabin installed in new home experiences its first rainfall

New views from cabin

This is a box for the gas bottles

Workshop without cabin

All that remains …….

All the Hobbit Stove components ready to go

Gas is on

 

BUILD DAYS four month’s work

November 2015 to February 2016

Fitting groovy copper light

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Copper wall lights installed

Graeme The Silicone Master

Adrian helps assemble the rotating cupboard

Flue for boiler installed

Stephen fitting the worktop

Stephen plumbing the waste pipe

Waste pipe plumbed

Mark The Gas Man …..

….. installs the boiler

He checks for leaks

We have hot water

Stephen sits under the boiler

Applying fist layer of plywood to rotating cupboard

Starting to laminate final layer of plywood to rotating cupboard

Adrian has to lower all the cupboards

Gluing the splash back

Stainless steel splash back installed

Stephen carefully cuts aperture in rotating cupboard

Michael helps Stephen fix sink to worktop

Lucy helps with hoovering

Stephen applies final coat of oil

Testing the rotating cupboard

The kettle fits

A moment of overwhelmedness

Stephen spent 3 hours fitting the door catch

sun setting on copper

Inside of rotating cupboard ….

….. ready for doors to be fitted

We are laminitaing the fridge door with plywood

The whole team lends a hand with the fridge door lamination process

Success ……

….. One laminated fridge door in position

Fitting stainless steel up stands

All splash backs and stainless steel up stands fitted

Stephen glues in the window frames

Stephen supervises window frame installation

Graeme silicones up stands and splash backs

Sock Hopper for rotating cupboard

What is Sue Palmer doing?…….

This is a box for the gas bottles

BUILD DAYS two month’s work

September to October 2015

Getting There

The cabin is beginning to ‘appear’ as many of the internal surfaces are installed. This is both satisfying and alarming as I’m not sure about some of my choices. I always knew that I wanted a minimalist design, but sometimes I think I’ve overdone it! Time will tell, and i’m realising I need to get to live with it a bit and maybe see how it grows on me.

meet the team

Silicone hell

i hate it

not bad

fixing there shower head in

repairing and respraying damaged windows

last fiddly socket installation

Windows resprayed

Colours chosen for cupboard doors

This is how it will look

Cupboard doors arrived

Drawers in

Master Crafsperson Adrian at work

Master Crafsperson Adrian at work

Master Crafsperson Adrian at work

Di not helping with the cabin

All doors fettled and fitted

Just in case you forgot about me

time to get the stove sorted

Vermiculite back plate installed ….

…10 mm off the wall

laser cut aluminium backplate ready for installation

Backplate installed and slate stove base in place

Joff

Stephen

Africa, my first baby visitor

Pasco, Africa and Blanca

Pete + Dot

Graeme comes to save me from Silicone hell

Under cabin cleaned and ready for plumber

2nd attempt at fitting new doors ….

…. is very successful

Cupboards up

Dave likes to ‘help’ by pointing out errors

Last bi-fold door fitting

Maintaining a high standard of in house catering ….

… is very important

Sean arrives from Berlin to ‘restore’ retro table

Not sure what’s happening here

Table finished

Photoshoped possible blind from a design by Hugh Dunford Wood

Photoshopped possible lamp

Pete + Dot sit at new table

Design for swivelling cupboard / room divider

Using wall cupboards to imagine what room divider will look like

Using wall cupboards to imagine what room divider will look like

Beginning the ‘revolving cupboard / room divider

Prototype for base of cupboard

Prototype for base of cupboard

oh dear

Getting there …..

Getting there …..

Getting there …..

bye for now ….