I’m writing this post from my office at the Farm, surrounded, finally, by piles of samples. This is a stage of renovating that has often felt completely out of reach, and is a reminder of how far we have come with the renovation of the Cottage, whilst also being a sign of the exciting times ahead. We’ve been renovating the Cottage for just over a year now…

If you’ve been following our journey for any length of time, you may already know that the Cottage is the first of the houses we are renovating at the Farm. It’s is stone built, shares a party wall with the Mistal, and began work on it back in July 2021…

I’ve always been a little obsessed with property. I grew up in a renovation, surrounded by missing floorboards and dust as my parents brought a Victorian home back to life, and my childhood holidays were spent in idyllic rural France where the tumbledown gîtes and villas always captured my imagination…