Marmalade cottage was built in 1917. Then it was renovated in the 1950s. Then nothing, really. It's been empty for a couple of years and still has its fabulous, kitsch linoleum floor coverings. And an outside loo and a beautiful cream and green Metters wood stove. Come with us as we transform a gracious shell into a functional house and create a fragrant, edible garden around it.
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
A long time coming
The reinventors inherited rather a lot of Marmalade Cottage's former owner's possessions. Some of it was quite nice, the rest was this:
Then it was this:
More correctly, it was about a third more than this. The enterprising and desperate of the area have removed quite a lot of saleable scrap metal.
We're just pleased our stables now look like this:
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