Philippa Spurway Interior Architect

2021

Metal Support Beams

The metal support beams have been installed to support the conservatory (also known as a winter garden in Montenegro), which will serve as the connection between the two buildings.

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Outside Kitchen & Terrace

The roofs of the outside kitchen and terrace area have both been completed 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 informing me that the original roof of the terrace must now be entirely rebuilt because the timber originally used is no longer structurally sound.


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Terrace Paving & Sitting Area

The sitting area is now finished, and I will be having large cushions made for seating and back support. I've designed the area to be spacious enough for someone to 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 in the process of dismantling the terrace in preparation for its reconstruction.

The stonemasons will rebuild it to ensure it is structurally much stronger, capable of supporting the large stone sitting area I've 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 have been beautifully constructed using stone excavated from the ground beneath the site.

They sit naturally within the landscape, as if it has always been there, which is exactly what I envisioned when designing them.

To put their scale into perspective: the wall is 33.5 meters long with a maximum height of 4.6 meters, while the garage and storage room are 10 meters wide and 4.2 meters 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 past three days, the timber for the finished ceiling of the garage has been fitted onto the joists. Next comes the instruction of the roof membrane, followed by the insulation.

All that remains now is the lay the roof tiles and install the Velux window above 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 have now been fully completed. The finished garage now measures 9.9 meters long x 6.5 meters wide and 4.6 meters high at the back wall.

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Planting The Olive Trees

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Pruning Olive Trees

Bojan, an expert in olive trees, is performing hard pruning on the four olive trees, prepare them for uprooting and transportation from Ulcinj, near the Albanian border, to my villa on Luštica, approximately 108 km away.


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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 their official return to work now that all COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted.

This team of builders managed to continue working quite a bit during the pandemic in Montenegro, which wasn't the case in the UK.


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