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New house, Stewart Road, Salt Spring Island
A 2200 sq.ft. house with a separate studio & car port and a gatehouse and store at the entrance to the property. The house included part of an existing cabin although, for the most part, this was new build work.
A conventional architectural vocabulary was adopted for the property which comprises large open plan sitting/dining/kitchen, a master bedroom with walk in closet and ensuite bathroom, two further bedrooms with shower room and a separate mud room.
A deck runs the full length of the south elevation and has access from the sitting room and the ensuite bedroom.
Above the carport is a studio/office with an eyebrow dormer window and a patio door at the studio access deck.
Finishes are traditional, with asphalt shingle roof, cedar shingle walls and fir windows. Internally, simple off white walls with hardwood floors generally but with ceramic tiles in wet areas with undertile heating.
Comprehensive building design services were provided with construction management on a separate trades basis.
House remodel, Lions Bay
Originally constructed in 1984, this 2800 sq.ft. house has world beating views overlooking Howe Sound.
The house was extensively remodeled and and modernised. A feature of the dwelling is the large areas of roof windows and skylights that flood the interior with light and sun.
All design and construction services were provided directly.
A brochure providing details of the building can be downloaded below.
Periwinkle brochure.pdf
Two new stone houses, Edinburgh
Two new houses were built within a stone walled garden, originally the kitchen garden, in a Georgian estate dating from 1712 outside Edinburgh.
The site is in one of Scotland foremost conservation villages and is highly sensitive architecturally and historically. The proposal therefore required to be submitted to the Secretary of State for Scotland for his approval. In granting permission to build, he said:
"The result seems to me to be a design of skill and flair, with potential for sheer delight in the subtlety of the detailing and the various imaginative touches such as the gates and the controlled variety of fenestration, in a manner which emulates but does not imitate qualities of the older buildings in the village and would thus genuinely enhance the conservation area and provide an instructive example of small-scale development on a very sensitive site".
The houses were built using slate for pitched roofs, stainless steel and copper for flat roofs, reused rubble walling with new Darney sandstone dressings, lead watergates and flashings and European oak windows and doors.
Low pressure hot water underfloor heating was adopted throughout with Italian porcelain ceramic floors.
George Grams was architect and builder on the project.
Commercial buildings
George Grams spent the first twenty years of his 35 year career as a corporate architect working on banks, offices, military installations, shopping centres, exhibition centres and medical buildings.
Several of his corporate clients owned property portfolios that included buildings of architectural or historical importance. He has extensive experience modernising and restoring these buildings and has developed specialist knowledge in the care and repair of stone architecture.
On this page are illustrations of some of these buildings. They include:
Trinity tower, part of Trinity College and a well known Glasgow landmark.
Discovery Centre, Dundee.
The Monkey House, Aberdeen, a landmark granite bank and office building first opened by Queen Victoria.
Standard Life's head office, Edinburgh.
Wardie Parish Church, Edinburgh.
Perth Prison, originally built by prisoners during the Napoleonic wars.
Consultancy work
Recent commissions for consutancy work include:
Design Consultant for Salt Spring Coffee Company's new green campus and corporate headquarters.
Report into green building options for new community hall for Highland Community Council.
Architectural consultant to Cape George Colony Club, Port Townsend, WA.
Process.pdf
Scottish Executive.pdf
Please complete the form to request information or send a message, or use the contact information below.
Email: g_inveresk.net
Telephone: 1 250 537 5439
Address: Inveresk Design Build Inc.
890 Walkers Hook Road
Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 1B5
