Philippa Spurway Interior Architect

2021

Metal Support Beams

The metal support beams have been installed to support the conservatory (the winter garden as it is know in Montenegro) that will join the two villas together.

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Outside Kitchen & Terrace

The roofs of the outside kitchen and terrace area have both been finished and look very attractive.


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New Roof Put On Terrace

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Outside Kitchen Roof Tiles

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Outside Kitchen Taking Shape

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Vlado, Stefan & I in a Meeting

Vlado is telling me the original roof of this terrace needs to be completely rebuilt as the timber originally used is not strong enough anymore.


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Terrace Paving & Sitting Area

The sitting area is now finished and I will now have get very large cushions made to sit on and for our backs. I have made this sitting area large enough so you can sleep on it.

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Barbecue Chimney Being Built

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Outside Kitchen Paving

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Reconstruction Of Terrace

We are now doing the dismantling in readiness for the reconstruction of the terrace.

The stonemasons will rebuild it to make it structurally much stronger to support the large stone sitting area I have designed.

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Building Outside Kitchen

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Lovely Garage Rafters

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Garage Looking Really good

This large double garage and wall has been beautifully built from the stone dug out of the ground beneath it.

It looks perfectly hunkered down into the landscape as if it has always been there, which is exactly what I wanted when I designed it.

To put the scale of this wall and garage in perspective - The wall is 33.5m long with a maximum height of 4.6m. The garage and storage room are 10m wide and 4.2m high.

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Olive Trees Growing Back

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The Villa Looks Great

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Construction Of Garage Roof

Over the last three days the garage timber for the finish ceiling has been fitted to lay on the joists, next the roof membrane and last the insulation.

All that is left to do now is the roof tiles and fitting the Velux window over the storage room.


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Paving Large Terrace

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Garage Roof Started

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Garage Walls Completed

All the stone walls of this garage are now completed and the finished garage now measures 9.9m long x 6.5m wide and 4.6m high at the back wall.

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Planting The Olive Trees

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Pruning Olive Trees

Bojan an olive tree expert is hard pruning the four olive trees, in readiness for them being dug up and transported from Ulcinj near the Albanian border to my villa on Luštica, which is 108 km.


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Continuing to build garage

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Starting to Build the Garage

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Stefan & Vlado Celebrating

Stefan and Vlado are celebrating the fact they are able to officially come back to work, because all Covid pandemic restrictions have now been lifted.

This team of builders managed to work quite a lot over Covid in Montenegro, which has not been the case in the UK.


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