My First Week at Cotes Mill
22nd April 2016
It’s been just over a week and although the butterfly feelings are just starting to fade, the excitement isn’t!
My name is Charlie and I have just joined the lovely Floors of Stone team based at our Cotes Mill showroom in Loughborough. It hasn’t been long at all since I started, but I already feel like I’m settling into the Cotes Mill life!
The building itself is very inspiring, when I get a free moment I love going into the cellar and having a good rummage through the antiques to see what I can find! deVOL’s kitchens look great in the showroom and it’s really nice to see them being complemented by the various different gifts dotted around the place. Working here really brings out your creative side, it lets your imagination run wild (not too wild of course because we do have very important work to be getting on with!)
This is the amazing Floors of Stone showroom that I now get to work in!
Before I started working at Cotes Mill I didn’t quite realise how much was going on here, from some really cool new products (like the vast array of interior design books and our new parquet flooring displays), to Hannah’s amazing handmade ceramic tiles (some of which have just been fitted in deVOL’s Air Kitchen upstairs), meeting and chatting to our customers, discussing new projects and ideas, to the ever increasing wildlife around the Mill! It’s all very exciting and I feel like ‘bored’ will no longer be a word in my vocabulary.
I started last Monday, which was a great week to start as Jane, the lovely Cotes Mill Chef started cooking lunches for us all. It was awesome being able to try all of her amazing food. She has been cooking up a storm in the beautiful deVOL Air kitchen, which is on the mezzanine above the Floors of Stone showroom, just up the spiral, limestone staircase. I have to say my favourite dish so far is the Piri Piri Chicken with Tomato Rice, very yummy indeed!!
From my desk I have a fantastic view out of the window onto the Cotes Mill grounds, this is great as I get to see all of our wildlife, from the prancing deer to the squawking peacocks, the ducks swimming across the Mill pond, and I occasionally get to see Jane making us pizzas in the pizza oven that’s just outside our showroom on our Dijon Tumbled Limestone display.
The Peacocks do like to have a little peek through the Floors of Stone office window, to see what we are getting up to, as you can see below!
And oh, I mustn’t forget the free range chickens roaming the grounds, catching the spring sunshine (Ginger being my favourite). They have even laid me fresh eggs for my scrambled eggs this morning, I still have lots more left over to make pancakes for my grandparents this evening.
You are more than welcome to come and visit us at Cotes Mill to see all of this for yourself, we would love to see you.
If you have any questions about any of our products please contact us at enquiries@floorsofstone.com or on 01509 234000.
