The London Road Studio Ltd

Hey guys, sorry for the delay in an update, things have been flat out for all of those involved, we have managed to make a little progress, but not as much as we'd have liked. Lots of background stuff being done on the legal/business side of things too.

To start with, we are now an official limited business !!! :)

You can call us The London Road Studio Ltd, from now on, Tammy and I have officially joined forces. We started a limited company to protect us both, and to make things easier to share/split. Lots of other stuff going on too, but you dont want to hear all that, you just want to know whats happening with the renovations dont ya ! :)

Well we did indeed get the wall down, that was actually easier than I thought it would be, took just 2 sessions, bearing in mind i do another 2 jobs at the moment and Tammy doesnt have time to breathe most the time, so we are doing well. Tammys husband Peter has been helping at weekends too.

So the wall....

The space really opened out when that wall came down, and the carpet was up, we have since spent time fillering the walls as the previous business sold tiny bits of plaster taken from the walls I think, there were so many holes !!! Its starting to look alot straighter now, last few goes with the filler and sanding and I think the walls are near enough ready for painting.

Can you spot the difference on the last 2 pics ? We've had an electrician come in and cast an eye over the very dubious looking electrics, he is also getting rid of the horrible strip lighting thats up, and replacing with bulb holders, we needed to remove the strip lights in the middle of the room to make way for the lighting track that will be going up, and I wanted normal light fittings so we can use daylight bulbs as the ambient light in the studio so as not to create any kind of cast on the set when its built. The electrician, Phil, is coming back this weekend to finish off the lights, he will also be moving sockets around for us.

Which brings me to the podium, both Tammy and I liked what we refer to as Peter's Podium, (he REALLY liked it), but have had to concede that it needs to be pulled down to make way for a changing/make-up room, so very soon it will be coming down and walls will be replacing it to make a small room, probably with a slit window looking out onto the studio set.

Thats about as far as we have gotten this week, major changes to the shape of the place should have taken place by next week, hopefully building partition stud walls this weekend early next week, then will be covering with plasterboard (or sheetrock as our american friend Tammy calls it ;)), then we can start on the set, which is going to be a corner set, so if anyone knows how to make a corner infinity (cyc) curve, at the moment we are a little stuck on how to do it, even after extensive searches on the net ! Would be cool if someone knows someone that can make the corner curve up for us from fibreglass or plastic then we can build the infinity curves on the straight edges to match. Be worth it when done.

The following diagram is a scale model made with Googles Sketchup of the studio cleared and ready for its new walls, when I get 5 minutes will add where the walls will be going now that we def know what we are doing.

Will try and get this updated a bit quicker next time, but we really are going flat out to get this and all the business side of it sorted as well as doing our normal jobs and lives, so may be a delay again ! :) Come back soon !