TV property guru Sarah Beeny invited Granite Transformations back to Rise Hall to help transform yet more bathrooms, for the second series of her popular Restoration Nightmare peak-time series. This time, the kitchen & bathroom surfaces specialist supplied and fitted materials for four more interiors, bringing the total number of Rise Hall installations to eight. The massive restoration project is still ongoing and Sarah is so impressed with the looks and performance of the reconstituted granite and recycled glass finishes that she is already talking about using Granite Transformations for fitting out a further four bathrooms.
The second series of the top rating Channel 4 makeover show ran through October and November 2011 and featured Sarah and her husband Graham Swift continuing their battle to breathe new life into their listed 97-room mansion in Yorkshire. It focused on the couple’s endeavours to restore several bedrooms and all the main state rooms, together with washing spaces and bathrooms, with Sarah emphasising the need for fittings ‘to last another hundred years’, as much as bringing renewed decorative style to jaded 19th century interiors.
One particular Rise Hall makeover project, in which Granite Transformations was closely involved, has already introduced a striking ‘wow factor’ for visitors: the emerald green bathroom serving the Tepilo Suite features its Dream Green recycled glass and the backlit bath panel presents a truly eye-catching, bejewelled appearance that is visible the length of the adjoining corridor. In contrast, the Millennium bridal suite, with its refined Palm Desert quartz panelling on the boxed-in bath, whimsical ‘thunderbox’ and twin wash stations, is notable for its subtle colourways and restrained elegance.
Granite Transformations’ Chief Operating Officer, Danny Hanlon, visited Rise Hall once again recently, on the same day as a Hello magazine photo shoot, and renewed his firm’s ongoing commitment to Sarah and Graham’s extensive makeover programme.
“It’s an enormous and quite daunting project, but you can already see the massive transformation that’s taken place,” says Danny. “We’re delighted to be involved in a modest way, as it provides opportunities for employing our agglomerate materials in settings other than simply kitchens. Drawing upon Graham’s artistic talent and Sarah’s undoubted design know-how, they have managed to style and theme each room individually, enabling us to showcase a number of quite different colours and finishes, including some rarities from our back catalogue.”
Other Granite Transformations highlights at Rise Hall include a dramatic Black Star shower room in the Stable Wing, from series one, as well as copper, brown and black Mocha Real wall cladding and flooring in the Farndale bathroom and Nero Stella black granite bath cut-out and extensive splashbacks in the Holderness Suite, both of which were featured in series two.
The installations were all carried out by skilled fitters from Granite Transformations’ head office in Tunbridge Wells, Kent and, in common with all of the brand’s domestic customers, Sarah and Graham will enjoy a lifetime material warranty. The same fitters have also worked on other networked TV shows like ITV’s 60 Minute Makeover and BBC’s DIY SOS, so are familiar with the demands of filming schedules; while the material lends itself perfectly to ‘instant makeover’ projects, being tough, slimline, lightweight and able to fit neatly over most existing surfaces, with beautiful and lasting results.
Most of the luxurious finishes featured at Rise Hall are available through Granite Transformations showrooms around the country and, just like on TV makeover shows, its highly qualified installers will measure up and fit new worktop counters, bathroom cladding, shower linings and other refinishing surfaces, mostly in a single day.
As the current series of Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare came to a close, doubts were raised as to whether the whole project might be halted due to local licence issues. But Sarah tells Danny that they have now received the necessary venue licence for staging weddings and the bookings are coming in thick and fast, so the story continues…
For further information, contact your nearest showroom or contact Rob in Lymington, Hampshire or Branksome, Dorset (Opening soon) visit www.granitetransformations.co.uk/lymington or call 01590 673 134 for a chat or arrange a free design consultation in your own home. This press release is provided by Cre8ive Wisdom: Cre8ive Wisdom utilises proven and measurable marketing techniques to help clients achieve their business aims before rolling out tactical campaigns to support their goals