Over the years, together we’ve dabbled in graphic design, photography + film work, illustration, and web design + code, trading first as sole traders with our own small businesses, then combining them to form a partnership under the name Lightbulb Head. Since having children we’ve folded the business so aren’t currently earning money from our creativity, but that hasn’t stopped us from creating.
In this section there’s a selection of some of the projects that we’ve worked on over the years – scroll down for the most recent, or use the categories on the left to see specific projects.
When we first moved into our house, there was a glass shower screen that we didn’t particularly like, but we saved as we thought it might make a good cold frame… fast forward a few years and we built this! The frame was made from leftover wood – a combination of pallets, a garden gate I’d made as a GCSE project many years ago and a couple of short bits of decking. We then added parts of an old wooden deckchair mechanism that allowed the chair to be at different angles, to prop up the lid of the cold frame so it could be open to varying degrees
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In 2021 the kids were at an ideal place for a playhouse. Our next door neighbour was ripping up their deck and also offered us a few pallets, so we built this out of waste wood. We were having our kitchen redone at the same time, so we used a couple of the old cupboard doors to form a stable door mechanism. Since the photo, we painted the outside to preserve it and added perspex sheets over the window openings so that it can ideally be used in all weathers. In 2025 we upgraded it, adding a new storey
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