Chris Ostwald Self Build Oxfordshire self-builder Chris Ostwald used Sadolin Classic to achieve his ideal colour choice when he set out to build a country retreat in the Chiltern Hills. The structure was inspired by a picture of a West Virginian timber clad water mill, Glade Creek Grist Mill, dating back to the 1920s, which he had seen pictured on the side of a yoghurt pot! Woodcare specialist Sadolin advised Chris on the best way to decorate and protect the exteriors of his unusual development which was visited during construction by Kevin McCloud and his film crew and featured in an episode of the TV programme Grand Designs. Chris and his architect Brian Johnson designed a building similar to the one featured on the yoghurt pot, to sit on a platform cut into the chalk hillside of the Oxf

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