Two Tiny Lassies - Joinery, Home & Garden

26/08/2026

Lookie lookie! We have some more magnificent work to share 😉

Feast your eyes: on this glued, solid wooden, herringbone parquet floor! Is it not just STUNNING? 😍

Laid using reclaimed, locally sourced, solid wooden bricks, from a former jute mill in Dundee. Jute, jam & journalism anyone? Hand finished with colour matched larch steps and custom made skirting to accommodate the lumpy stone walls (lordy talk about a complicated first job 🤣)!

Thank you so, so, so much to the wonderful customers who were happy to be our guinne pigs and allow me to put my knowledge to the test It was also wonderful to be a litte part of these bricks history.

I have always loved herringbone parquet after seeing some in one of my fathers, former very old homes. So much so, that when I get my dream home its gonne be my choice for the whole property. I have, quite literally, researched how to lay it correctly for years before even doing my apprenticeship and thus when I chose to become a joiner I knew id be able to offer this for customers too. We just needed an opportunity to demonstrate 😌

It was wondeful to put that knowledge to the test and for it to turn out so perfect 👌

Anyone else want a BEAUTIFUL parquet floor? You definitely know who to call ❤️

15/08/2026

So at the roofing job we just finished up, not only did we do the roof; We also addressed other maintance areas, as while the scaffold was up this made sense for the homeowner in the future.

We also:
1. Scraped, sanded and painted the soffits and facias!
2. Replaced all the cast iron gutters damaged beyond repair
3. Fixed up the salvagable cast iron gutters
4. Finally painted all the gutters. Rust comverter, red iron oxide paint & a final topcoat choice of paint.

Lovley 🥰

(the after photo was very close to completion, but not quite! I forgot I do apologise 🤭)

15/08/2026

So who recalls the roofing job we were called in to correct after cowboys ripped off this poor homeowner? Well we have worked our magic and VOILA! One fully insulated, re-sarked, membraned and brand new slated roof!!

Does it not just look glorious?

28/06/2026

So we have been incognito recently on Facebook, but as always non stop behind the scenes! 🥵🤣

! Right? 😅

Anyway. This is one peice we are especially proud to share with you all. It has been awhile in the making, but yesterday was finally completed 🥰

We were intitially requested if we could make a solid oak stairgate. It had to match the existing look of their, beautiful, custom built home and be sturdy enough to keep one massive doggie where she is meant to be when on her own. Simples.

Hiroko, the customer and I worked together as a team to figure out and come up with the designs core elements. Then off we went, needed details in hand.

This kind of job is where our expertise and knowledge shone through during the making process. Yes, all jobs throw curveballs, BUT this one threw many big and small, much to our dismay at points. However, Hiroko and my own combined experience meant those curveballs were no match for us! 🥳

By the time we finished up this peice it was just beautiful 🥰

Subtle, asthetically pleasing, practical and wonderfully tactile (having been hand sanded to 180g... hmmmm wonderfully 😛)

It truly was a challenging one at times, but thats what makes it a real pleasure for us especially. There is nothing we enjoy more than getting our brains going.

We are so incredibly proud of how it turned out, but when a customer loves it as much as us, we leave overjoyed.

To our customer. Thank you and we send our best wishes x

09/05/2026

☠️ !!NOT OUR WORK - WE HAVE BEEN CALLED IN TO FIX THIS!!! ☠️

For the customers that are just desperate for us to start their work and are patiently waiting, well this total MESS is why we unfortunately can not guarantee a start date at current! This poor, poor customer has been the victim of some total cowboys. Just look at the state this roof has been left in for the last 6 months!! The job has been so poorly done, it has been growing arms and legs as we uncover each ineptitude that inevitably requires fixing.

What they paid for - stripping of the roof slates, stripping of the old membranes, stripping of the old sarking boards, re-insulating between the rafters, then finally redoing the lot! Easy peasy... right?

What they got... Partial stripping of the slates, covering up of the old membranes (and not even well done!), no new insulation added - thus no new sarking and finally an abysmal attempt at re-slating... that they did not even finish!

For those with untrained eyes. You should not see holes in your slates, you should not see nails between your slates, the green waterproof membrane paper has strict overlap criteria that was not adhered to (thus water has been able to pour into the property!!), the brown stuff below is the old membranes that was left totally intact. There was rubbish left everywhere. This is one of the WORST roofing jobs any of us have ever seen. Truly shocking. The customer is pursing legal action but the chances of success are slim...

Anyway, we are on the job now and are working with a team of other skilled tradespeople we know and adore to get this place into sorted out!

I will post a follow up post, to showcase how it should look, once we are done.

In the meatime, we have been enjoying working in a larger team once again and of couse the glorious sunshine while we work! I think roofing jobs in the good weather have to be one of our absolute favorite job types we do. Its just a shame its under such poor circumstances.

Please, please, please people check your trades peoples, portfolios, references, reviews and dont hand over all the project costs before satisfactory completion of works!

09/05/2026

Bathroom update anyone? This was for a customer we have worked with many a time now and they did not think twice before getting us back for this little project 🥳

They wanted to utilise the space below their window better, to hide the toilets unsightly pipework, and for us to replace the existing, failed, MDF path panel. All with something more in keeping with the existing decoration, but with some splashes of character. This seemed an ideal job for the stash of local elm planks we have, and yes even in our opinion it turned out looking beautiful! 🤩

So want some custom made bits and bobs for your home? You know who to call x

10/04/2026

10/04/2026

Another before and after! This has been an amazing project and we hope you enjoy the transformation as much as we have enjoyed making it 🥰

The customer wanted to have an inbuilt entertainment unit built into an existing cupboard, and ideally have another symmetrical one on the other side of the chimney breast (this 2nd cupboard would require investigation works first however, s we were not 100% sure what was behind this stud wall).

Our only design requirements were that the left unit had to have a cupboard with glass doors and that there was enough shelves for all her ornaments and keepsakes and that they needed to use the hidden space also, ideally if we could do another cupboard then its lower half needed to be for logs and fireplace furniture.
The shelves will be lit by warm glow LED's too.

This was a large project and is a prime example of our work knowledge and skill, cumulatively displayed together 🥳

Hiroko built one and I built the other, and it was imperative we make them look nearly identical. There were SOOO many stages we had to strip /cut the walls, install the frames, hand cut every piece, reinforce the shelves, triple check our spirit level so often I was dreaming of them in our sleep, work alongside the sparky, make the doors, hang the doors, paint everything - including the wall after the old paint literally peeled off the wall (prime your bare plaster people or that's what happens!), plaster the walls. We even fixed the slipped slates and emptied the gutters for them as the roof needed some TLC too. My lordy, lord what a project its been, but its fab to be able to do a project from start to finish like this all ourselves and we were blessed with fantastic weather too, so we managed to do the majority of the cutting outside which is ideal.

So do you want an inbuilt unit into your homes nooks and crannies? You know who to call 😎