Garden 25th March 2019 19th August 2019 Garden Update – Spring 2019 Four and a bit years ago we moved into Penraevon. It was the middle of December and snow was threatening. We knew the house…
Garden 22nd July 2018 19th August 2019 Summer Garden 2018 It’s summer and the garden is bursting with colour and buzzing with wildlife. It’s three and a half years since we bought the house…
Exterior, Garden, The Courtyard 4th June 2017 5th June 2017 June Garden 2017 When all the hard work feels like it’s really starting to pay off! A gorgeous warm day and a beautiful evening in the courtyard….
Exterior, Garden 29th April 2017 20th August 2019 Spring Garden 2017 People ask me ‘what are you doing this weekend?’…I say ‘gardening’. This year we’ve been cracking on with some new bits of the garden,…
Exterior, Garden 23rd October 2016 20th August 2019 Autumn Garden 2016 So far, 2016 has been the year of the kitchen renovation, sorting out some of the outside of the house and the gardens. We…
Exterior, The Courtyard 6th August 2016 7th August 2016 Building a Banquette Now we have completed the courtyard we needed to put some seating under the veranda and opted to build our own banquette. This would…
History 10th May 2016 20th August 2019 Cragside The four month push to get the Kitchen finished is finally coming to an end, so we hopped off for a week away at…
Interior 22nd December 2015 30th December 2015 The Secret Wall Exciting day today as we solved one of the puzzles of our house by discovering a secret wall! It’s Christmas holidays, and so it’s…
Garden 13th December 2015 13th December 2015 Winter Garden So here we are in the middle of December, a strange time to write a post about the garden, but I thought I should…
Interior 18th October 2015 20th August 2019 Restoring the Dining Room Restoring The Dining Room This is a bit of a work in progress post – as you will see. I needed to use up some…
Coach house 21st September 2015 20th August 2019 Limewashing the Coach House What is Limewash? Limewash is not paint, instead it cures. It has the advantage of letting the brick of the walls still breath and…
Exterior, Products 29th August 2015 20th August 2019 Building our own Log Store Building a log store With two new woodburning stoves we needed a wood store. We’re in the middle of getting the Coach House roof…
Garden 28th August 2015 22nd September 2015 Summer Garden We’ve made our first tentative steps in the garden. It’s big, it’s a bit weedy and while we’re focusing on doing up the house…
Coach house 9th August 2015 21st October 2015 Work on the Coach House begins We have a coach house at the back of the house. You can read a description of it here in an old For Sale…
Garden 3rd May 2015 3rd May 2015 Bluebells and Beech Trees When we moved in it was the beginning of December (we’ve been here 6 months now!). The garden was sparse and a bit derelict…
Interior 5th April 2015 20th August 2019 The Finished Attic As we have said before, we weren’t going to do the attic so early on in our restoration project, but we changed our mind…
Exterior, Garden 10th March 2015 10th March 2015 Spring time 2015 Now spring is here we’re just about to get loads of work done outside. We started with the railings and the gateposts. Next the…
Interior 8th March 2015 26th November 2015 The Attic So, we’ve started work on the Attic. We weren’t going to do it so early, but the way things have worked out it makes…
