The Homebuilding & Renovating Show is back on the road and Charlie will be speaking at its NEC venue this coming Saturday. Find him in the Self Build Theatre offering advice on building a low energy home and tips on designing your dream home.
15/10/2018Layering Up The layers that go in to making up the walls of a building. Starting with a brick outer layer and concrete block inner layer sandwiching the most important component of all, the insulation – and lots of it! In this…
11/10/2018Starting on Site It’s exciting for the architect and the client when a project starts on site; to finally begin to see the building take shape in three dimensions. Here the original cottage is shrouded in scaffolding to protect it from the elements…
03/10/2018Masterplan Completed We are thrilled that the final two phases of this project in Buckinghamshire have been completed. The home-office and garden-room that nestle in the wooded landscape around the main house are now in use by the very happy client. Click…
25/09/2018Impossible Builds In this eight-part series Charlie and co-presenter Aidan Keane meet ambitious families who are building innovative bespoke homes in some of the UK’s most challenging and remote locations. Starts this Thursday 27th September at 9pm on More4.
21/09/2018Taste Maker! Charlie is interviewed for this week’s Tastemaker column in Friday 21st September’s The Times Bricks & Mortar supplement. Find out what inspired him to work in architecture and his interior design hints and tips.
17/09/2018Homebuilding & Renovating The Homebuilding & Renovating Show is back at Excel London this weekend, 21st – 23rd September. Charlie will be speaking on Saturday in the Self-Build Theatre offering design inspiration for your home and a guide to building a low energy…
31/08/2018Planning Permission Granted! We’re delighted to have received planning permission to modernise and renovate a 1960s house in North Oxfordshire. The aim is to remodel the internal spaces to better suit the client’s needs as well as improve the external aesthetic of the…
16/08/2018Completed project We are very pleased to have finished a major restoration project of an eighteenth century Grade II listed farmhouse in Oxfordshire. The farmhouse and associated buildings including a cheese-room had sat unoccupied for fifteen years and were in need of…
23/07/2018Bricks and mortar At our first project on the Graven Hill site in Bicester, the bricks are being laid revealing the interesting shape of the building.
11/07/2018Harnessing Solar Energy As Charlie’s own self-build project progresses, he is posting blogs on the Homebuilding & Renovating website. This month is topically, all about the solar panels. Solar thermal panels have been mounted on to the roof to use the sun’s energy…