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This page: A backgammon scoreboard is tucked away behind a set of doors above the dining table. Mel and his team have been creative with every inch of this property, including putting the bin on a wooden base with castors to whizz around where needed Mel had been looking for a new photographic studio, and while not sure what form it would take, he was clear what it wouldn’t be. “I didn’t want a shop or industrial unit,” he says, “which didn’t actually leave many options – so many of the old buildings in the area have already been converted.” But in the serendipitous way of things, the property came up through a friend of a friend. “It needed everything doing to it, but I knew it was the perfect studio space.” The one storey building has had many uses in its time, once a school room and most recently an art gallery, as evidenced by what was left behind. “There was a little tea hatch and a loo, strip lights, a storage loft,” he says. “We ripped it all out. Everything. We had skips here for six weeks.” Mel, Jon and Jon’s son George – who “came in to help for a week and stayed for a year” – set to work. They pulled down the whole of the ceiling, leaving just the structural joists and then put down scaffolding boards. Mel could see from the outside that the pitch of the roof was high – something that was hard to visualise initially from inside. “I knew there was space, but didn’t think about it at all because the ceiling was there. I thought, if there was a possibility, a vaulted ceiling was a must, because it would give me more light.” The space turned out to be bigger than he imagined, so he decided to install a tiny second floor. “Once the ceiling was down I could see there was room for a mezzanine and planned to make just a little one – and then decided to do a bigger one and extend it. We started at the top – I never realised that was the best place to start,” he says, “but of course it makes sense.” Unfortunately the only way was down in more ways than one – he hit rock bottom when they reached the floor. Replacing it really was the low point of the build for Mel – “a black moment in the whole thing”. It was a gruelling, back-breaking task, involving lifting ancient Canadian priceless-magazines.com 52
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