A new look for Liveseys Motor Works in Morwell

A rewarding project has been the makeover and renovation of the exterior of Liveseys Motor Works workshop, now branded with their new logo and colours.

Before

The old building looked tired and faded. We needed to give it a face-lift while respecting it’s 1950’s era.

After

Surface and roofing work was carried out to prep the building. New paint colours were chosen to define areas such as the entry and work in with their new branding. Although the building has a wide street frontage, signage was kept simple and strong, uncluttered with key information only. Specialised materials were used to protect dark colours from fading in the sun. A ramp for easy access was added, and the garden was given some love. A little extra effort, but well worth it, was the restoration of the old back-lit sign above the driveway – which looks great at night. Lots of effort but a great result, and nice for the Liveseys team to have lots of positive feedback on the change from clients and neighbours!

Time off over Christmas gave the opportunity to use a little creativity and turn old rusty metal plough discs into entry features.

We started with the old plough discs and rusty fencing wire.

 

 

 

 

 

The discs were welded together to create an abstract style flower. Following the recycle theme we had to find something to sit the flower on to hold it to the base. Old gears hiding on a shelf were the perfect height, and had an added benefit – the flowers can rotate in the wind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rusty wire was twisted and fixed to the centre of each flower to add some interest and softness, as well as provide contrast in size and weight since the discs look so solid.

It seemed only right to made a number ’80’ for the street number too.

All finished – the colours in the weathered timber pillars look great with the rusty metal and overall a rather interesting finish to the driveway entry!