Looking for a home extension or an outbuilding?

I have always loved the beautiful home extensions and oak constructions

of our Belgian company LLOYD HAMILTON.

Whether you want to choose for a home extension or you would love to have a charming outbuilding in your garden, you will love these Lloyd Hamilton constructions.

I have posted here some of my favorites.

I love how this company integrates their home extensions. They do make an effort to choose the right building materials required to extend your home in a way that it is not overwhelming, so that the house don’t loose its characteristics and authenticity. Proportions are very important!

Repeat of the roof slates.

Carefully chosen roof tiles matching the color of the existing roof.

A painted home extension here.

Love the inside of these constructions!

This is one of my favorites! A combination of a brick façade with oak constructed window frames and doors.

And what do you think of these oak constructions?

Dreaming of a place to barbecue this summer?

Or are you dreaming of a wonderful oak constructed pool house?

Or do you need a new car park?

Very Belgian-styled : brick façade, wooden doors, Belgian bluestone.

Don’t you admit that the inside of these oak constructions looks just fabulous?

The most important characteristic of these constructions is the use of wooden beams.

A detail of the earlier showed cottage styled home extension! How charming is this!

If you love to see more of these dream constructions, please visit the Lloyd Hamilton website :

www.lloydhamilton.be

If you are a Belgian reader, visit the Lloyd Hamilton Open Door weekend on 26th & 27th March.

All images : website Lloyd Hamilton

I wish you all a wonderful weekend!!

xx

Don’t forget my Beta-Plus book give-away, you can still grab your chance untill February, the 25th.

Please click on the Beta-Plus logo.

Beta-Plus publications : the inspirational resource to all your architectural and interior design and…a book give away!

Dear readers, I am aware that a lot amongst you do know yet the wonderful publications of our Belgian publisher Beta-Plus.

Although today I wanted to write a special post about these publications to introduce my new readers to this resource, which is of an inestimable value, for all your architectural and interior design.

As my followers do know, in a lot of my earlier posts, I used several images of these publications and linked back to Beta-Plus (my apologies to Beta-Plus for any forgotten mentions or links, which I didn’t mean to omit on any purpose) in order to introduce the world to the characteristics of the Belgian architectural and interior design.

A few days ago, I received an email of the owner of Beta-Plus publishing, mentioning to me that I used too much of the Beta-Plus pictures on my blog. Although I always tried to mention the source of a picture, it seemed that I took a lot of pictures of websites which include the Beta-Plus publications’ pictures!

I really want to apologize to Beta-Plus publishing for this!! It was never my purpose to cause problems of any kind.

So in huge respect for Wim Pauwels, the owner of BETA-PLUS publishing, and for the amazing research he has done in all these passed years, it is my duty to write a special post dedicated to his inspirational books.

With an enormous respect for our Belgian ancestors, Wim Pauwels has performed a lot of research to publish about our today’s craftsmen and their projects, so that all of the publications became reference books of our cultural history and tradition. I am sure that in future they will be of a huge importance to our children and grand-children in order to go on in that same way and tradition of our ancestors.

I share with you today some of my favorite publications, which were a very important source, writing my earlier blogposts.

ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUES

This publication emphasizes the traditional craftsmanship in our modern, high-tech society, and shows us realisations with construction materials and pieces from the past, being reclaimed, restored and reintegrated into properties.

BUILDING WITH RECLAIMED MATERIALS

&

COMPENDIUM ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUES

Wonderful sources of reclaimed materials.

Image source Beta Plus publication Compendium Architectural Antiques

COUNTRY LIVING

Restored country houses as new-built projects, integrated into the country landscape.

All aspects of country living are given a chance in this publication : from the restoration of the house and the selection of materials to the interior design and the landscaping of the garden.

Image source Beta Plus publication Country Living

Image source Beta Plus publication Country Living

LIVING WITH WOOD

This book features inspiring examples of using wood in architectural projects and interiors. Homes constructed out of wood and also traditional brick buildings where wood occupies a prominent position inside the house.

Image source Beta Plus publication Living With Wood

COMPENDIUM CLASSIC LIVING

Classic living in all its aspects : from a farm house to a stately home, from a country estate to an apartment.

Image source Beta Plus publication Classic Living

Image source Beta Plus publication Classic Living

KITCHENS

&

COMPENDIUM KITCHENS

The kitchen has become one of the most important places in the home, it is not only the cooking area, but it is also used for many other activities as eating, working, receiving guests,…

In these 2 (and even in other publications about kitchens – see Beta-Plus website), you will find plenty of inspiration for your dream kitchen.

Image source Beta Plus publication Compendium Kitchens

Image source Beta Plus publication Compendium Kitchens

HANDMADE, A PASSION FOR CRAFTSMANSHIP

This book presents 20 selected craftspeople. They all argue for a recovery of our traditional cultural heritage of crafts.

Image source Beta Plus publication Handmade, A passion for craftsmanship

Image source Beta Plus publication Handmade, A passion for craftsmanship

CONTEMPORARY LIVING WITH ANTIQUES

This book presents recently constructed or restored homes where interior designers or antiques dealers show an eclectic whole of old and new.

Image source Beta Plus publication Contemporary Living With Antiques

This is a picture of my living room published in Contemporary Living With Antiques.

Image source Beta Plus publication Contemporary Living With Antiques

I am very proud to mention that my home is featured in this publication.

Discover the entire publication of my home HERE.

Besides of the thematic series, Beta-Plus publishing offers a wide range of other publications as the yearbooks about Architecture and Interiors, as this one here :

TIMELESS ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIORS – YEARBOOK 2011

These yearbooks include beautiful realisations shown by renowned architects and interior designers.

Image source Beta Plus publication Timeless architecture and interiors – Yearbook 2011

Image source Beta Plus publication Timeless architecture and interiors – Yearbook 2011

To discover more about the wide range of BETA-PLUS publications, or to see some book previews, please visit the BETA-PLUS publishing website : www.betaplus.com.

To order your favorite publications, click HERE.

MY BOOK GIVE-AWAY

Grab your chance and go over to the BETA-PLUS website HERE.

All you have to do is : take a look at the preview of ONE OF THE 4 NEWEST PUBLICATIONS

- BEST OF 500 CONTEMPORARY INTERIORS

-BEST OF 500 TIMELESS INTERIORS

-CONTEMPORARY APARTMENTS

-KITCHENS

And let me know, by commenting this post of BETA PLUS, which of these 4 books is your favorite.

You can leave your comment until Friday 25th of February, midnight central european time.

The random chosen winner will be announced on Saturday the 26th of February.

Good luck to you all!

xx

All images of this post are of the Beta-Plus website www.betaplus.com and posted with the permission of Beta-Plus publishing.

Where to find reclaimed building materials in Belgium

After sharing with you images of Belgian houses at a lot of my earlier posts, some readers emailed me asking where to find reclaimed ancient building materials in Belgium. Because there is such a huge interest in finding the right addresses, I decided to write a post about it.

There are a lot of addresses in Belgium where you will discover the most beautiful reclaimed materials but I picked out 4 addresses.

The addresses I share with you today, are all companies where we have found different ancient materials to built our own house.

At the end of this post I’ll show you some pictures of my own home together with the addresses where we bought the respectively materials.

So whether you are surching for façade bricks, roof tiles, terrace floors, path cobbles, garden ornaments or ceiling beams, parquet floors, lime stone and antique mantelpieces, you will find the most gorgeous materials in Belgium.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Charming Flemish house built with ancient materials.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Beautiful ancient roof tiles.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Roof made out of 17th century grey tiles. Walls made with planks of old oak.

 

  Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Garden path in calcaire stone.

 

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Cobbled path.

 

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Garden gate in cast iron - 19th century.
Garden path made with Calcaire stone.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Annex with roof in 17th century grey tiles. Walls out of planks of old oak

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Verschaeve

Ancient gate in cast iron.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Frame of windows and porch put together with 17th c. white.
stone - authentique blue stone doorsteps - red tiles - 17th century wall-ties.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Different bricks and a combination of tiles and slates.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Ludwig Deblaere

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Surroundings of doors in white stone – 17th century.

Slates Fumay

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Ancient French roof tiles for this outbuilding.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Verschaeve

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Verschaeve

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Verschaeve

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Ludwig Deblaere

Different kinds of Belgian bricks.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Ludwig Deblaere

Different kinds of roof tiles and slates.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Beautiful reclaimed ceiling beams.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Cross-beams in old oak.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Terrace floor.

 

  Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Terrace sandstone

Columns of Bourgogne 18th century.

Grey tiles 17th-18th century.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Belgian blue stone floor.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Floor in carrara marble.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Waterbasin in carrara marble – 19th Century.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Verschaeve

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

French terracotta tiles.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Steps in blue stone.

Floor in Calcaire stone and Basècle.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Floors in blue stone 19th century.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Ancient Belgian floor tiles.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Banisters in cast iron – 19th century.

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

 

Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Old planks.

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Here below you will see some pictures of my house with the name of the company where we have found the respictively building materials.

 

Two different kinds of bricks for the façade and a combination of slates and tiles.

Both :  Ancient Building Materials LUDWIG DEBLAERE

 

Terrace and path floor : Ancient Building Materials LUDWIG DEBLAERE

 

Outbuilding bluestone floor : Ancient Building Materials VAN HUELE

 

Doorway and steps. Both : Ancient Building Materials VERSCHAEVE

 

Entrance hall floor tiles : Ancient Building Materials RIK STORMS

 

Library parquet floor tiles : Ancient Building Materials RIK STORMS

 

Kitchen ancient carrara marble floor : Ancient Building Materials RIK STORMS

 

Dining room ‘Hungarian Point’ parquet floor : Ancient Building Materials RIK STORMS

 

Webaddresses :

www.rikstorms.com

www.vanhuele.be

www.verschaevenv.be

www.ludwigdeblaere.be

Photo credits : images of Rik Storms & Van Heule : BETA PLUS publications : Building With Reclaimed Materials; Compendium Architectural Antiques ; Architectural Antiques         

www.betaplus.com 

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For more architectural salvage materials, please visit this link : www.antiek.com :  http://www.antiek.com/partners/?sele=0&cid=4&pid=0&RubriekTitel=Architectural

I hope that, with this post, I have answered a lot of my readers’ questions about ancient architectural building materials to find in Belgium.

xx