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Finished work

A walk round the jobs
I’ve finished

Finished jobs from homes around Bridgwater and Somerset: a staircase refurbished in oak, media walls, fitted wardrobes, kitchens, doors and floors. Every one of these is a real home within about a 45-minute drive from Bridgwater, photographed on the day I packed up. Start at the front door and work your way through the house.

Chapter one

The hall and the stairs

The first thing anyone sees when they come in, and the thing people most often ask me to change.

Oak handrail and newel post with slim black metal spindles, fitted to a staircase in a Somerset hallway — Oak handrail, black spindles

The old handrail and turned spindles came off and this went on in their place. Same staircase underneath, and no need to rip it out.

Built-in storage cupboard and open shelving fitted into the space under a staircase — Under the stairs

Shelves into the low end where nothing else fits, doors on the tall end. The most wasted space in most houses.

Chapter two

The living room

Media walls with the fire and the telly built into them, and every cable hidden inside the wall.

Fitted media wall with a wide inset log-effect fire, wall mounted television and a lit slatted oak panel with floating shelves — Media wall, lit slatted panel

Fire, telly and every cable inside the wall. The slatted panel and floating shelves take the corner it used to waste.

Media wall with rattan fronted cupboards, brass handles and open shelving either side of a wall mounted television and fire — Rattan doors, brass handles

Same idea, softer. Cane fronts and brass, built to suit the room rather than a catalogue.

Engineered walnut flooring laid across a living room with sofas back in place — The living room, finished

Engineered walnut laid wall to wall through the living room.

Chapter three

Kitchens and doors

The two I get called out for most, and the two where being a couple of millimetres out shows for good.

Fitted kitchen with worktops installed beneath a vaulted timber ceiling — Kitchen under a vaulted ceiling

Units levelled and worktops cut and joined on site. Nothing in a room like this is square to start with.

Cottage style panelled internal door hung in a period frame — Hung to the frame it’s going in

Old frames are rarely true. Doors get fitted to the opening and close with ease.

Panelled internal doors hung on existing frames, with ironmongery fitted — A full house of doors

Doors inside and out. Handles and hinges fitted.

Chapter four

Floors

LVT, engineered board and laminate, set out so the boards land right where you look.

Mid oak LVT flooring laid across a room and up to a set of French doors opening onto a garden — LVT, run to the doors

Set out so the boards land full width at the doors, where everybody looks.

Light oak LVT flooring laid across an empty room, finished with a scotia bead at the edge — Scotia bead round the edge

Finished with a scotia bead round the edge.

Chapter five

Upstairs

Wardrobes, eaves and the awkward corners a fitted unit was invented for.

Wall of fitted wardrobes with oak cottage style doors and chrome knobs in a bedroom — Wall to wall, in oak

Six doors across one wall, scribed to the ceiling so it looks like it grew there.

Three white shaker sliding wardrobe doors fitted across a bedroom recess — Sliders, where a door won’t open

Three panels on a top track. Nothing swings out into the room, which in a small bedroom is the whole point.

Oak lined desk built into the eaves beneath a roof window, with fitted wardrobes either side — A desk in the eaves

Lined in oak and built into the slope under the roof light, with the wardrobes either side of it.

Fitted wardrobe with six panel doors and matching cupboards built in above — Right up to the ceiling

Cupboards over the top of the wardrobe, so the dead space above the doors gets used too.

That’s the tour

If you’ve seen something here you want doing, ring me and tell me about it. I’ll come and have a look.

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