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APC Office Interior

May 11th, 2012

In November our client Angela asked us to design and build a new office interior for her newly launched company – APC. In January we started on site and 3 months later in March we finished.

The 3 floor office block, although great in size, was rather dated and in urgent need of an upgrade. We installed new lighting, CAT 5 cabling, data management and heating. The building was extensively plastered and decorated, new wc’s and shower room fitted, new oak flooring and carpet’s fitted and new glass pocket sliding doors installed. We sourced, purchased and installed all furniture and fittings and professionally cleaned the property before handing over to Angela.

She’s delighted with the project, here’s what she had to say -

‘From the first touch I knew nest was different from any other development firm I had experienced. They appeared on the day they had arranged to meet with me, on time, well organised and professional – so definitely not your stereotypical builder!

I felt reassured from the first meeting that I was in good hands. The combination of design skill with the practical works being undertaken has resulted in a fantastic working environment for us in your new office and I would not hesitate to recommend nest again and again.’

Angela Proctor, APC Financial Solutions.

Here’s some before and after shots of the build -

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Beautiful Kitchens – March 2012

May 1st, 2012

‘With careful spending and clever planning, (our client) Helen got the scarlet scheme of her dreams.’

Beautiful Kitchens magazine recently featured some of our work, here’s a few shot’s of the article.

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Gillian & Vincent’s gorgeous wee bathroom

April 25th, 2012

Our client’s, Gillian & Vincent approached us to reconfigure and upgrade a small existing cloakroom in their home. The room only measured 1.5m x 1.9m, included 2 large vent pipes, a rotten floor, antique pipework and crumbling walls. Our brief was to transform it into a small contemporary Victorian shower room.

With some repositioning of sanitary ware, renewal of flooring and smart tiling we transformed the space in just over a week. Here’s a few shots of before, during and after.

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Trust your designer – Ideal Home, December 2011

December 13th, 2011

Ideal Home recently featured one of our projects – a bathroom we designed for the lovely Morag. Here’s a few shots of the mag and a wee slice of Morag’s comments in the article.

‘I didn’t want to employ a bathroom company to do the work but I knew I needed some help. nest had project managed a friend’s extension which was a fairly big job and I was really impressed by what they had done there so my friend suggested I contacted them.’

‘I knew I wanted it to be very plain and I wanted a big mirror but other than that my brief to nest was to make it a nice space to spend time in. After nest’s visit to The London Design Show they brought me back lots of catalogues which gave me plenty of ideas.’

‘Trust your designer. When Dene first mentioned the reclaimed wood for around the sink I couldn’t imagine what he meant but I’m glad I trusted him and went along with his idea. It’s important to have your own ideas and discuss them but if you employ a designer you should trust their instincts too. I would never have thought of that but it was a brilliant idea. It breaks up the plain-ness of the room and creates texture. I think it changes the whole look of the room.’

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Filini Restaurant, Radisson Blu Hotel, Chicago

November 25th, 2011

Last week, the new Radisson Blu Hotel opened up Chicago. Our sister company - Happell Products - designed and manufactured some gorgeous 3D ceramic tiles for the beautiful new Filini Restaurant in The Radisson Hotel. Working closely with the designers - Graven Images - Happell Products installed around 10,000 tiles in the restaurant. Finished in white gloss and metallic gold the tiles look amazing in Chicago’s premier destination restaurant. Here’s some shots of the tiles in situ.

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Morag’s contemporary utility room

October 7th, 2011

Having recently completed her bathroom, Morag asked us to help out with the redesign of her cluttered and dated utility room. The room needed to house all the usual appliances and have lots of storage. Morag wanted it to be bright and modern and also link with the existing house.

We worked closely with Morag to develop a design and contemporary look she wanted. It’s in keeping with the modern/classic feel of the rest of the house, we chose white walls and units, oak flooring and worktops with a crisp, blue glass splashback. There’s clever laundry storage and clothes hangers and even a special wall for the kids’ drawings and family calendar.

Here’s a selection of shots during the build and of the finished utility room.

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Before – Shot of the existing utility room.

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Stage One – Downtakings

Existing utility room and floor is stripped out and walls made good for plasterer.

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Stage Two – Plasterwork, first fix plumbing & electrics

Plasterer prepares walls and applies specialist plaster bonding agent to walls. Skim coat plaster to walls and ceiling. Plumber and electrician install new pipes and cables.

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Stage Three – Kitchen installation

Our joiners start to install the kitchen units.

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Stage Four – Kitchen installation complete

All the kitchen units are installed and ready for painter to start work.

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The finished utility room

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Merchant City Design Shows

July 25th, 2011

Had an interesting evening dodging the rain and sheltering in some great wee design shows in the merchant city on Thursday night. Openings included work by Gallacher & Warren in a Stockwell Street pop up, No Place like Home curated by the guys at Goodd and shown in the lovely Burniston studio and O and other letters, an exhibition & printshop by Edwin Pickstone at his studio in The Briggait. Here’s a few shots from the evening, ubiquitous single speeds were out in force and also saw a lovely QR code on Graphical House‘s window, just a shame it didn’t work when I was there.

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Our new clothing line….

July 15th, 2011

We’ve been wearing them for months now and thought it was high time we popped a shot or two up here. You may have seen our lovely black t’s and matching shoulder bags around town and wondered, ‘Wow, where could I get one of those?’ Well now you know, right here…..

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Morag’s bathroom – revisited

July 12th, 2011

We’ve just had Morag’s bathroom professionally shot and thought the images were so beautiful we should pop them up on our blog. The images and an article will appear in Beautiful Bathrooms magazine soon, watch this space for details.

Let us know what you think – we’d love to hear from you.

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Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2011

June 16th, 2011

Here’s a selection of some of my favourite bits from this years Degree Show at GSA. The images are a mixture of shots from the fine art and design schools.

We’d love to hear from you, let us know what you think.