A new project – Bellevue
Architecture

A new project – Bellevue

It should be Project with a capital P.

The cons: it’s small, the street doesn’t look like ‘lovely old Edinburgh’, and, well, just look at it!

The pros: it’s about 4 minutes’ walk from the bottom of Broughton Street (for those of you who don’t know Edinburgh, Broughton Street is the hipster neighbourhood), the garden is very large for central Edinburgh, and I needed something to get my teeth into. I have a suspicion that street is about to change, and I’ve seen that once people paint over the pebbledash these houses can look quite charming.

Front of house: I figure I’ve already added a grand to the property by taking down the horrid vertical blinds!

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Marchmont Flat
Interior Design

Marchmont Flat

Living Room This is a sketchup model of a flat I inhabited in Marchmont (Edinburgh) for a few years. It incorporated some of the furniture I knew my partner would not be willing to live without and imagined ways of mitigating them… I did a bit of work on it, but alas I had to move out before I could finish the job. So the model has to suffice.  Living Room Continue reading “Marchmont Flat”

Truchas House
Architecture, Interior Design, Off-line

Truchas House

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It’s the feel and the smell of this house, more than anything else, that I’m proud of. The client (all right, my mother) had been wanting to build an extension on her little adobe house in the mountains of New Mexico for about 30 years, so we finally did it. I did the overall design, then we found a wonderful project architect and local builder to do the new adobe brick structure justice. The thing about adobe is that it’s cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and smells wonderful; and, it’s possible to get fantastic sculptural shapes from it. Continue reading “Truchas House”