As kitchen designers here at deVOL, we do most of our design work on CAD, creating kitchen layouts and producing detailed A2 drawings and wall elevations for all our customers. These drawings help our clients to visualize how their kitchen will look, and along with visits to our showroom and seeing the furniture being hand made, they have a very good idea of what the finished room will look like.
However, one of our customers decided to go one step further and create a scaled model of his potential new kitchen, from the drawings David Weston one of deVOLs designers produced. The customer has made little models of each bespoke piece of furniture out of balsa wood and created a whole room set, just to be sure he has everything exactly where he wants it.
We were all so impressed here in the design office, when he emailed David the photographs of his kitchen model in all its detail.
Now he is happy with his furniture choices and the layout of his new kitchen we hope he will soon be the proud owner of a beautiful deVOL Kitchen.
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We are delighted to show our first bespoke clothes horse which is painted black and is 1.8 metres high. It was handmade to the specifications of a customer who wishes to use it as a stand for their products at the London Fashion Week. The London Fashion Week runs between 17 th – 22 nd February.
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Point Nepean marks the southern point of ‘The Rip’, which is the small entrance to the huge Port Phillip Bay. A Quarantine Station was opened there in 1852 and is the second oldest intact quarantine station in Australia. Ships that had been struck down by disease during their voyage, most often from Britain, went there to have the sick treated and the contents of the ship disinfected to avoid the risk of contaminating the inhabitants already in Australia.
Fortifications were built on land from 1878 onwards. Gun batteries were installed at Fort Nepean in 1886 and Eagles Nest in 1888. Barracks were constructed at Fort Pearce. With the removal of coastal artillery after World War II, the facilities housed an Officer Cadet School and the School of Army Health from 1951 to 1985.
It is now a national park, where you can cycle and walk through to see the remaining buildings. It was a truly fascinating place, if not a little windy!
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Chinese New Year was just a few days ago, and with the huge chinese population in Melbourne, China Town came to life. As part of the celebrations, Chinese lions were going up and down the streets to each shop to scare away the bad spirits and let the luck of the new year in. This involved various drums and cymbals to accompany the lion’s dancing, which culminated in lighting a long string of fire crackers that were hung from a stick out of the upstairs window of each shop.
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I recently went for a short trip along the Great Ocean Road, travelling from Melbourne for an overnight stop at Peterborough. The views were outstanding and it is easy to see why the coastline is world renowned. Here are a selection of photos I took along the way.
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