I J Curry & Son Limited

The builders were extremely understanding of our wish to be involved in the project, reduce costs and wastage of materials by reuse, repurpose or selling on. Nick Curry assigned Gary Pimblett to our project, who was outstanding. They recognised we wanted a characterful home, preserving the oak flooring and materials we had invested in during previous renovations. When I wanted a bath in the en-suite, Nick exceeded all expectations leading the team to get the bath up scaffolding and through the roof.

The objective was to remodel the ground floor and first/second floor holiday apartments in a Victorian Lakeland stone building to create a single characterful home. The Architect plans provided an outline for a raised roof profile to facilitate the creation of a new en-suite bathroom in what was previously a roof void. The remainder of the reconfiguration of the room layout and new staircase to join the ground floor to the first floor was a collaboration with the client, requiring structural and design inputs throughout the project from IJ Curry and Son’s team to enable the clients vision to be realised. The redesign: -Amalgamate a bedroom, hallway and bathroom into a light filled first floor living room. -Create a second floor master bedroom suite with spacious en-suite, - significantly rework the ground floor rooms and corridors to make a large boot-room entrance, new bathroom layout, bedroom, hallway and stairs.

The objective was to remodel the ground floor and first/second floor holiday apartments in a Victorian Lakeland stone building to create a single characterful home. The Architect plans provided an outline for a raised roof profile to facilitate the creation of a new en-suite bathroom in what was previously a roof void. The remainder of the reconfiguration of the room layout and new staircase to join the ground floor to the first floor was a collaboration with the client, requiring structural and design inputs throughout the project from IJ Curry and Son’s team to enable the clients vision to be realised. The redesign: -Amalgamate a bedroom, hallway and bathroom into a light filled first floor living room. -Create a second floor master bedroom suite with spacious en-suite, - significantly rework the ground floor rooms and corridors to make a large boot-room entrance, new bathroom layout, bedroom, hallway and stairs.

The objective was to remodel the ground floor and first/second floor holiday apartments in a Victorian Lakeland stone building to create a single characterful home. The Architect plans provided an outline for a raised roof profile to facilitate the creation of a new en-suite bathroom in what was previously a roof void. The remainder of the reconfiguration of the room layout and new staircase to join the ground floor to the first floor was a collaboration with the client, requiring structural and design inputs throughout the project from IJ Curry and Son’s team to enable the clients vision to be realised. The redesign: -Amalgamate a bedroom, hallway and bathroom into a light filled first floor living room. -Create a second floor master bedroom suite with spacious en-suite, - significantly rework the ground floor rooms and corridors to make a large boot-room entrance, new bathroom layout, bedroom, hallway and stairs.

The project brief was to create more space in the small 3 bedroom cottage by adding on a wrap round extension that canterlivers over aira beck and to allow for a below ground wine cellar. The designer for the projrct was Graham Norman Achitects of Penrith

September 4th 2019 was the day that our company came face to face with one of its biggest challenges, my father Ian Curry (company owner and director) A FMB member for nearly 30 years had a heart attack, which resulted in him needing a triple heart bypass. Thankfully he is making a good recovery but at the time of writing, he's shielding again, so back to the paperwork for him! Also the Covid pandemic has played a massive part this last year, however we have remained to keep all our sites Covid safe and fortunately with no positive cases. We have the advantage to be able to continue to go out to work and for that I am truly thankful because you can see the detrimental effect of being stuck at home and what it can do to your mental health.