Our Tenants

The Making Rooms’ first and second floors are full of creative business!

See the Entreprenuer Community page for pricing info and to see some more benefits (the first benefit of course being neighbours with these lovely people…)

Ivy & Ted

Sam restores and hand paints beautiful furniture, bringing pieces into the 21st century with classic elegance. She sources provides bespoke design and painting service for your furniture. Brushes & Bubbles Classes are soon to come where you create your own home decor.

sam@ivyandted.com

Younek

Younek is a local business who specilise in fashion design and textiles with the vision of creating all things handmade and in the UK.

youneckdesignstudio@gmail.com

Irreverent Artistry

Laura is an abstract mixed media artist. Often dark and expressive, her work seeks to convey emotion and the complexity of the human spirit through her work. Make sure you check out the videos of her process on her blog.

laura@irreverentartistry.co.uk

Charlotte Harvey

Charlotte creates freehand 2D artwork with 3D printing pens. Her wall hung pieces are usually collections of smaller items i.e. the bottles to the left or blind portraits and continuous line pieces. The web link above takes you to her page on Corner Gallery’s website.

charlotteharvey.uk@gmail.com

Accountancy Services North West Ltd.

Stephen who owns ASNW is not currently taking on any more clients. Accounting and auditing, bookkeeping, tax consultancy.

asnwltd@live.co.uk

Revidge Mount Consulting UK Ltd.

Zia specialises in business planning and the financial side of running a company. RMC UK is an accountancy service and advise on an ongoing, usually monthly, basis to make sure your business’ money is working hard for you.

0161 641 5547

ziashah@rmcuk.com

Physionation

Physionation provide a referral service and bridge the gap between GPs and healthcare professionals specialising in physiotherapy.

The service is available to GPs through their own practices.

School of Psychological Integration

This company offers a counselling service to those in need of couples therapy.

Details TBC

Alumni

We are incredibly proud to host our tenants, it takes exceptional dedication and drive to make a creative business flourish. The tenants below have outgrown the studio space here and moved on to new premises. G’wan ye good thing (Irish for “Well done chaps”)!

Kate Illustrate

Kate is a multidisciplinary freelance illustrator and graphic designer. She takes commissions for commercial blackboards and murals, custom ‘letter drawings’, pet portraits, wedding stationary, and brand identity to name a few and has a distinct line-drawn style.

kate@kateillustrate.co.uk

Milestones3D

Aiden has sold his 3D scanning and printing business and moving on to bigger things! While at The Making Rooms Milestones3D would scan & print people (& pets) for any occasion, be that weddings, graduations, corporate & custom events using their full-body 3D scanner.

info@milestones3D.co.uk

BREAD art

Although not currently a tenant, David Boultbee of BREAD art has been our resident artist, amongst other things, for the last two years. Last year he worked with local young people on a commission for a large and unusual (read:mad!) clock for The Making Rooms. This year he has created a response to his connection to Blackburn as a town and has produced a suspended brick wall with glowing mortar hanging from thousands of threads in our entrance way – you’ll have to come and visit to believe me!

dboultbee@gmail.com

Kahn Design Solutions

Suhail is a freelance industrial designer specialising in veterinary equipment. He has a passion for engineering and a creative approach to product design.

suhail@khandesignsolutions.com

in4.0

Mo from ‘in4.0’ set up this business to provide a link between new technology, like 3D printing and smart sensors, and businesses that can benefit from such things. They also have an educational branch that seeks to improve the knowledge and skill set of the next generation in this field.

mo@in40.co.uk

SewCecilia

Cecilia’s speciality is textiles and she turns her hand to anything in this realm; quilts, cushions, soft furnishings, rag rugs, upholstery etc. Wherever possible she recycles fabric and clothing to make her items.

ceciliabrown@tiscali.co.uk

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