A kitchen in birch plywood, made in our own workshop.
Cabinets, drawer fronts and storage made to fit the room, with a dark worktop and the sink set beneath the window.
Thoughtful · New builds and renovation · Fowey and south Cornwall
New builds and whole-house renovation around Fowey.
We design and build timber-frame buildings from the foundations up, and renovate period and listed houses from the floor structure to the finishes. One team runs the job from the first drawing to handover.
New builds and renovation
What we take on
Complete buildings and complete renovations, including the design.
Where we work
- Fowey
- Polruan
- Bodinnick
- Lanteglos
- Golant
- Lostwithiel
- Tywardreath
- Par
- St Austell
- Mevagissey
- Design and buildWe draw up straightforward projects ourselves. On complex ones we work in partnership with your architect and engineer, or bring in ones we trust.
- New timber-frame buildingsFoundations, frame, insulation, roof and cladding, with the interior fitted out by the same team.
- Whole-house renovationFloors and structure repaired, rooms replanned, kitchens and bathrooms rebuilt.
- Listed and period buildingsWe have worked on listed buildings. Changes that affect a listed building's character need consent before work starts, and we plan for that with you from the first visit.
- Kitchens and cabinetryMade in birch plywood in our own workshop, to fit the room.
- Consents set out at the startWe tell you at the site visit what needs planning permission, Building Regulations approval or an engineer, and the quote says who deals with each.
A timber-frame cabin built from a bare wooded slope, foundations to furniture.
This one is ours, designed and built by Thoughtful from start to finish. The plot is a steep wooded bank, so the first job was holding it back: tiered gabion walls, drainage and a sewage treatment plant, all in before any timber arrived.
The cabin stands on concrete pier foundations, with a timber frame, insulated walls and roof, a metal roof and timber cladding. Folding glazed doors open the living space onto a deck among the trees. The interior is finished; the deck and exterior are being completed now.
Inside, everything was made for the building: a birch plywood kitchen and cabinetry from our own workshop, a sleeping loft and ladder, a wood burner on a stone hearth, and a bathroom with a sunken microcement bath.
- Groundworks, foundations and drainage
- Timber frame, roof and cladding
- Birch ply kitchen and cabinetry
- Sunken microcement bath, hand-carved stone basin
How it was built
Eleven stages, in order
A sunken bath and shower formed in microcement.
The bath is built into the floor and finished in one surface with the walls. The basin was carved by hand from a single stone.
One room that opens onto the trees.
An exposed timber ceiling, a sleeping loft reached by a hand-made ladder, and a wood burner on a stone hearth.
Planning a new build or a full renovation?Tell us about your projector call 07933 005029
Related work
Old pine boards lifted, repaired and brought back.
Damaged lengths replaced with matching boards, the floor relaid tight and sanded ready for finishing.
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