Helen@MoretonFeb 4, 20216 minAll Dressed upWe might have nowhere to go right now, this being lockdown 3.0. But we can look back to a day when shopping in a face mask was for armed...
Helen@MoretonJan 2, 20204 minThe Christmas bushSeason's greetings to you all! What a year we've had, completing our accommodation wing and welcoming our first holiday guests. Next year...
Helen@MoretonFeb 17, 20185 minClub classAt last, I can write about a finished room (oh yes, there was champagne!). More than a year since we first stripped the paint, I give you...
Helen@MoretonMar 30, 20172 minA happy accidentAbout the time the first apartment was stripped back to its bones, we were toiling with winter. We’d been in South America and Asia for...
Helen@MoretonMar 27, 20173 minAt least three steps backwardsWith the outside looking shiny and white, it was time to turn attention our inwards. The part of the house we tackled outside is a...
Helen@MoretonMar 9, 20172 minHello from the other sideTurning attention to the west side, we didn’t bother trying to strip off plastic paint coatings this time. So one week and a couple of...
Helen@MoretonFeb 10, 20172 minShades of whiteI promised myself I’d write this post when the scaffolding came down, so that I could take some decent ‘after’ photos. But instead of...
Helen@MoretonJun 27, 20163 minA dash of lime..of the natural hydraulic variety I’m afraid. I’m going to get disappointed googlers looking for hockey if I use the term NHL. So last...
Helen@MoretonJun 25, 20163 minThe first big makeover projectSorry I’ve been quiet for a while. It’s not from lack of progress, more that I planned to blog about this when it was finished, but the...
Helen@MoretonFeb 24, 20167 minThe oval-aboutConfession time. I just spent my day doing geometry, and really enjoyed it. I was playing about with shapes on the landscape plans, and I...
Helen@MoretonFeb 1, 20162 minA splash of colourI need to make it absolutely clear; this is a ‘before’ picture. I have no words. I said last post that I would share some pictures of the...
Helen@MoretonJan 31, 20163 minWater, water, everywhereThis week’s news from Moreton was all about the water. It seems to have been an unusually wet year – or is north Devon always like this?...
Helen@MoretonJan 22, 20163 minGarden schoolMy family has its fair share of gardeners. My parents have a fabulous garden and mum has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the latin names of...
Helen@MoretonJan 20, 20162 minDown the garden pathNot surprisingly, getting the house safe and watertight has been our main priority this first year, but we have enjoyed getting to know...
Helen@MoretonJan 19, 20162 minA bit DowntonI had a message from a former student of Grenville filling in what some of the rooms were used for by the school in the 1980s. As we...
Helen@MoretonJan 18, 20163 minThe beastWe always knew we had a bit of a problem in our southeast corner. The beautiful ancient Holm Oak tree on that corner was brushing the...
Helen@MoretonJan 17, 20162 minThe guest suiteHaving given up on our first choice of rooms to renovate, we moved our attentions to a newer part of the house. It doesn’t look newer,...
Helen@MoretonJan 16, 20163 minSetting up basecampHaving done the obvious stuff (meaning that the existing apartment was functional, if not exactly beautifully restored, and we have a...
Harvey PhillipsJan 15, 20162 minThe big kidThe second post in my round up of the first year’s work will detail the very top, most important, priority for the new owner of a grade...
Helen@MoretonJan 14, 20162 minA year on, and still standingIt’s a new year, and one of my resolutions is to blog more regularly about all things Moreton. My plan was to wait until we had our...