A constant in a ever changing world

Ey up my faithful blogworms, bit of a bits and bats week this week, responding to conversations I had this week. A catch up on a recent job, a freebie for you all to play for and opinions on recent events really.

 Starting with a catch up from a post I put up on 14th May, "Re-defining space". 

Tiling .... what, where and how ?

After much deliberation we decided to use two seperate colours of tiles: a grey off white and a rich Victorian maroon. Most people are conditioned to think in tiles in all one colour but I hope you agree that the chance we took here works really well, certainly the customer loves it.

We tiled the two flanks in the grey off white while the maroon took centre stage in the opened up fireplace creating and fab central feature blast of colour. It's a Victorian house and the maroon tiles look like they've been there forever and we worked round them !

We think it's useful illustration as to how you can re-think your perception on using tile colour. To link it all and keep it subtle we chose a grey grout for all 3 tile areas, white would have been OK but the grey really does set it off, although I admit it might be difficult to see from my pictures.

BY THE WAY ...... What do you think of the fireplace overmantle ? On the subject of reducing waste, again, this is the original fireplace surround that we took out to open it up to put the cooker in. 

Our customers wanted something to detail the chimney breast with and we stood the old surround on the worktops more as a bit of a giggle really, they liked the idea and it's been there ever since, they love it. It will, in time, be made to fit fit properly and painted in a colour to suit the room but yeah .... why not ??


Here's a cheeky little freebie competition for you to play with. Those of you who know me, know how I hate wasting anything so here's an egg rack for a dozen eggs made from from a timber off cut left off a job ages ago.
I'm sure you all know by now that keeping your eggs in the fridge is entirely the wrong thin to do so how about a fab egg rack ?

It's a bit different, a bit more creative that the normal boring ones and all you have to do to win it is pop into our showroom, guess the wood and it's yours !! Simples. Yes, I know, this favours my local blog fans but as my last topic illustrates, you can't please all the people all the time ! There's only one so it's first come first served, good luck !


Brexit ..... You can't escape it, it's happened and I feel now that we all need to stop whingeing, knuckle down and let's pull the positives out of this and move forward. 

We are a great nation and have a lot to offer so let's re-kindle our great British spirit of old and do what we're good at: pull together.

From a Milestone point of view, we will be a constant in an ever changing world. All our own brand products and all our Eco offerings are all made within the UK and, as far as is humanly possible, always will be. 

Who knows, buying British and supporting local industry and products might well be more important now and in the years to come ??

Staying positive, Jules