A renovation adventure in Northumberland.
Chicks
The local wildlife has been multiplying and since we bought a motion sensor camera we’ve been getting some fantastic shots of them.
Cottage Garden
It might be a little late in the growing season but there is plenty we can be getting on with so we started by digging in several beds.
All fenced in
Our boundary fence went in this weekend, finally giving us a real view of our countryside kingdom.
Two becomes one
It may only be a small doorway but it feels like a huge step forward :)Knocking through to create one cottage happened so quickly we didn't get chance to take many photos. We've still got to board and plaster to make it all tidy but we uncovered some beautiful stone...
Meeting the local wildlife
This week we've been meeting some of the locals. The cottages haven't been lived in for many years so we're probably quite an unwelcome surprise.We've got a very friendly pair of pheasants that like to spend time in the garden and occasionally stare through the...
Taming the meadow
With grass in the garden/meadow already being knee high and some lovely sunny weather we thought we'd better start to try and tame it.When we first viewed the cottages we loved them... but then when we were shown the garden and extra land and we were sold! 1/4 acre...
Hidden treasures
We started stripping the wallpaper in the bedroom - well most of it was falling off anyway so it wasn't a difficult job.We could see an indent in the chimney breast so we hoped that their might still be something behind there...and guess what - there was. A lovely...
Taking a break – our new local
After a tiring week of work and renovation we decided we needed a little treat with a visit to our lovely new local, The Crown Inn at Humshaugh.It's a great pub run by David, and with loads of events including Supercar Sundays, Buskers Nights, Tractor Days (it is the...
Bringing the outside, inside. Home office.
Even though the roof leaks, and the list of things is endless we decided to start on the home office as we're both self employed and so it is one of the most important rooms in the house... and one of the smallest!As the cottage hasn't been lived in for quite a few...
So… where to start
There's so much to plan, and we're sure there's an order jobs need to be done in, so what's first on the list...One of the first things we need to do is create an opening between the two cottages to make them one house, as until we do this we're paying two lots of...
Moving day
Goodbye city, hello countryside.Moving day was a long time coming, Friday 3 May 2019 was the big day. It all happened very quickly in the end, with only a couple of days notice, but luckily we'd been packing up the house for months and had already put lots of our...