Lime, and lime plastering in particular, is a material that we have had to wrap our heads around quite quickly since moving into the Farm last April, in order to ensure we have been making the best decisions for our property…

Pointing is a technique used to ‘finish’ the gaps between stone or brick in construction. It uses mortar, which is a workable paste made by combining a binding material such as lime, cement, or earth…

It feels incredibly exciting to finally be able to write a post about our inspiration for a space, rather than on how we’ve made another mess this week! Though that is of course an inevitable part of the process for any room we renovate…

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…

Mouldy corners, blown plaster, musty smells, and rotting beams. I’m willing to bet that damp is an issue that almost everyone who owns a pre-war property has faced. But damp is often misunderstood, and can also be one of the most expensive issues to resolve…

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…