Cottage Renovation for a Holiday Let
The biggest and boldest project so far.
The renovation of very old (possibly 16 century) cottage as sympathetically as possible to end up with a highly desirable holiday home.
It'll involve loads of research and learning old and new skills so it'll work for us and be a bit of heritage for us to pass on.
The "Other Half" and myself will be blogging about the process and progress.
See the cottage renovation blog posts here
I'll be covering the research, investigations, technical, skills, details in what I hope will be a useful fashion here on the website. So far:
Knocking out and rebuilding a fireplace
We're after any help, information or advice you can give us regarding the history of the house, please leave your comments on the blog
Cottage History, Investigations, Research pages
Thoughts on Why reseaching the property's history is important
See what the initial house history investigations have revealed
Keep up to date on the cottage renovation via Facebook
I've set up a facebook page so we can post any progress. All you need to do is click the like (top right) and the iDoStuff page feed should come through to your News Feed or visit the page and click "like"
First tour of the cottage as we bought it
We were just a little excited to get in there for the first time and to make a start planning the renovation.
Here's the first visit after we completed. The videos and coverage will get more specific but this is where we're starting from.