Little Maldron Mill Update

Works are in the final stages now at the mill, with the client furniture being delivered to site tomorrow. The past few weeks have been very trying from a weather perspective as we have had long periods of solid rain that have made landscaping next to impossible, but Gregor has persevered, and how the solid surface paving outside the garage, granite chip pathways, and remainder of final drainage bits have been installed.

Internally, the Lighting has been completed, wood burning stove installed and the worktop for the island was installed finally this week, after a minor mishap in transportation from the manufacturers to the site resulted in it having to be remade. The wheel has been removed and then reinstalled after needing one or two tweaks to get it to run perfectly and the timber cladding applied to central drum. These shots are from the last few weeks and I am due to do a site visit this Friday, which I am thoroughly looking forward to as Gregor is fairly complete with the landscaping and at present is mid way through undertaking the final fencing works to the boundaries and tackling the visibility splays at the junction with the main road. The client has commenced packing ready for an imminent move and we are looking forward to getting them ensconced into their new home in plenty of time for Christmas.

Prospect House Extension nears the end

Works to the dining kitchen extension at Prospect house are almost complete, with the glazing, oak cladding, zinc roof and most of the lighting installed.

Bulthaup have been on site installing the elegant centre island unit, complete with extract unit, dishwasher, two ovens, hob and sink. work to the custom built wall to wall timber units that surround the island are continuing and should be complete by the end of the month. The client has painted the units in the utility a very fetching powder blue, which sits very nicely with the granite floor tiles. We are very pleased with the overall scheme, and aside from one or two somewhat stressful moments in the past month.

The most awkward issue we have had to resolve has been with scratches that have appeared in numerous places on the glass that the installer accidentally made when cleaning the excess silicone from the glass, which has required the services of a specialist glass polisher to sort out, and almost required the services of a doctor when I saw them as although I do not usually panic easily, for a moment I had heart failure! Very thankfully it looks as thought the glass will be perfect by the end of the week, amazing how a material that we take for granted as a solid easily broken surface can be "buffed" back to perfection. The lighting in the horizontal window has worked particularly well, and we are looking forward to joining the client for a glass of bubbly at some point in the next week, to celebrate completion of this phase of the works.

Global Pipe Office reburbishment almost complete

A couple of photos of one of the office fit outs that we have had on site for the past 8 weeks, the fit out of an existing shell and core space for Global Pipe Components in Aberdeen. JAMstudio has gained a reputation for undertaking interesting high end residential works, but we also make a nice job office fit out work, which is where John and I started our architectural careers in the nineties.

The project will be complete and the client ready to take occupation of the space on Friday this week. The space plan has provided a new board room, 3 offices and open plan work area for up to 12 staff on this level and another 20 on the ground floor. I am particularly fond of the Modular "downut" circular light fittings - a personal favorite as i have them in my kitchen at the steading! they always look fab where ever they are installed.

Motley crew

One of the more amusing tasks from last week at the mill was to try and get team photos taken, as a record of the design/construction team on the project, and despite everyone moaning and ABC being late as they were all getting their hair done, it was a great laugh, and thanks to Rory Raitt our patient photographer, we've got some really nice shots of the whole team, which will be useful for our publicity work that is scheduled at the end of this year. And the staircase got a first proper test of robustness of design with more than 10 of us on it!