The floors did get put in just before Christmas 2017 - we even had a Christmas tree...
The cottage was SO cosy and festive, it was truly lovely.
We brought the incredibly heavy coffee table down from the barn - we pushed it across the grass which was relatively easy (it has wheels), then had to wheel it on planks across the gravel - think Wallace & Gromit laying railway track in The Wrong Trousers. Yep, you've got the idea!
The wonky end is what we in the interior design business call 'quirky'...
We had so much garden to fill that some of our lovely neighbours gave us plants - a LOT of plants. We were told to 'split and separate' them. We didn't, we (OK, Guy) just dug large holes and bunged them in. Everything has thrived so that now we have a beautiful garden. It's mostly hardy geraniums, sedum and alchemilla mollis (Lady's Mantle!) so we hope it will largely look after itself.
We bought a ride-on mower (essential) which is brilliant...
Part of the huge beech behind the house fell down and we turned it into a bench... Guy did the digging...
We reckon it took us about a year to recover - yes, really! And we're still never going to do it again.
Welsh Oak Frame (WOF - yay!) recently asked if they could feature us as a case study on their website - we said yes! They sent a photographer (the absolutely fabulous Nikhilesh Haval) and we now have the most beautiful photos of our beautiful house.
We'll leave the final word to the photos themselves...
