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Open Plan Kitchen

Our brief

We were brought in to assist with the conversion of an old town house in Birmingham. We removed all internal walls and brought down a suspended ceiling. This will be replaced at the original height to allow for a continuous ceiling with no steps.

Once the walls are rebuilt a wetroom shower will be added to the bathroom in the ajoining room and the dinning room will become part of the kithen making the whole area feel more combined and a lot more spacious, lowing whilst allowing the room to be filled with natural light.

Image Gallery

Internal wall coming down
Kithen dinning room wall down
Wall gone and supports inplace to hold the floor above until the new wall goes in.
The mess from the investorgtory and deconstruction works all cleared
New walls go up
New door gets a letter box!
Plaster taken off to reveal brick and block work
New doorway formed
Steel pads being dug
Pads dug
Pads filled with concrete
What a mess!
Getting tidier
Mess gone!
Walls continue to come down
Steels in
Steels are in position so wall start coming down
Steels located and proped

Jobs left to do:

  • Our envolvement is now complete, all further works will be done by other local trades. Final photo will be updated upon completion
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