project he was working on.”
The Good Life workshop is in Canworthy
Water near Launceston, in the heart of the North
Cornwall countryside, where a team of
experienced craftsmen design and make
kitchens, staircases and furniture, as well as oak
frames, windows and doors. “The workmanship
is fantastic, they use traditional carpentry
methods, which is exactly what we wanted,”
says Bob.
Stuart Bowman-Harris recalls the first time he
visited the site, on the back of Bob’s quad bike.
“We went up an overgrown track and there,
nestled in the trees, was this decrepit caravan,”
says Stuart. “There’s a certificate of lawfulness
for the site, and the size, construction andmobility of a replacement building all needed to
be taken into account.”
Stuart worked with Bob and Pat to design a
single-storey timber building which, at just 41
square metres in size, is only slightly larger than
the old caravan previously occupying the site.
There was already a phone line and mains water
but no mains sewage, which needed to be
installed, and steps lead up to the site from a
designated parking area.
“It’s such a special, private setting that we
didn’t want to disturb it more than necessary
and the piece of land isn’t very wide, so these
constraints were taken into account at the
design stage,” says Bob. “Stuart made a sketch,
which we reduced slightly in height, and thatBI