You may think I have ideas above my station, but I'd always wanted a beautiful stone, winding staircase, with metal balustrading and slender Georgian handrail. And so that's what we're trying to achieve, although it will be no mean feat if we manage to do it on budget. The staircase up to the second floor will be in wood, but with the same balustrading to continue the theme through and link both together visually.
Sadly, one of my suppliers, a creative and talented metal craftsman, who was going to do the balustrading for us, has bowed out of the project. We're therefore relying on one of Steve Osborne's suppliers, to come up with the goods and I do have a concern that they won't be able to come up with exactly what we want. We shall see ... watch this space!
At the moment, a wooden structure has been erected, onto which concrete will be poured to form the stairs and this will then be clad in stone. Again, another worry I have, having visited a show house built by another local and very well known property developer in the area (no names, in case I get sued!), is that because some of the steps will be curved, the stone will have to be cut to fit and it looked really ugly the way the developer had done it in the show house. I have voiced my concern to Andy, but he is confident that the supplier will do a good job and that the joins will not be visible. I use the same stone supplier and they are very good, so will be keeping a close eye on what's going on!
Paul and I visit site on an almost daily basis and every day there is a little more to look at. With Christmas almost upon us, it feels like such a long time ago that we were decorating our tree in a house that doesn't exist anymore!
Henry steps up to the mark at the end of term!
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