Meet the architect
I’ve always fancied the idea of engaging an architect (if I’m honest, inspired by Kevin Mc of TV fame), so I went to speak to one today.
My route in was the RIBA website (Google RIBA), which offers a referral service. Of the three on my list I managed to speak to two (one of whom chased me on a Friday night which is a refreshing role reversal).
I went to meet the first of them today and can’t say I was disappointed. I found the experience confidence building and somewhat inspirational. I now feel a whole lot more certain about the project. Although the costs seem to keep growing (the architects ‘cut’ around 14% of the total build) the project as a whole seems more achievable.
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Here we go... on January 28th, 2007
Having claimed that the ball was rolling back on the 28th June 2006 only to spend six months to-ing & fro-ing, waiting for utility companies and solicitors to get their acts together, the ball really has started rolling.
Oak Beam ~ The Movie on January 14th, 2008
Inspired by my first outing onto YouTube and dazzled by the 143 people who've so far taken the time to watch the minute long tour of the ground floor of the barn that I've subjected treated them to, I thought I'd give it another go.
Attention to detail... on November 4th, 2007
So, as we have started work, we need to think about all those details that I've put to one side until we had a builder.
I'm certainly no bathroom designer / the strange 1 metre wide space on November 8th, 2007
The original plans for the barn had two largish bathrooms one of which contained an airing cupboard that to my mind was a waste of space.
White-washing? on January 10th, 2008
One solution I'm considering for the seemingly porous stone gable-end wall is to repoint and dub-out the joints between stones where necessary then whitewash it to provide a greater degree of rain protection.
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