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Jan 2
4 min

The Christmas bush

Season's greetings to you all! What a year we've had, completing our accommodation wing and welcoming our first holiday guests. Next year...

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Helen@Moreton

Feb 17, 2018
5 min

Club class

At 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...

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Helen@Moreton

Mar 30, 2017
2 min

A happy accident

About 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 t...

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Helen@Moreton

Mar 27, 2017
3 min

At least three steps backwards

With the outside looking shiny and white, it was time to turn attention our inwards. The part of the house we tackled outside is a two-st...

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Helen@Moreton

Mar 9, 2017
2 min

Hello from the other side

Turning 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 sk...

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Helen@Moreton

Feb 10, 2017
2 min

Shades of white

I promised myself I’d write this post when the scaffolding came down, so that I could take some decent ‘after’ photos. But instead of rem...

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Helen@Moreton

Jun 27, 2016
3 min

A 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 p...

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Helen@Moreton

Jun 25, 2016
3 min

The first big makeover project

Sorry 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 j...

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Helen@Moreton

Feb 24, 2016
7 min

The oval-about

Confession time. I just spent my day doing geometry, and really enjoyed it. I was playing about with shapes on the landscape plans, and I...

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Helen@Moreton

Feb 1, 2016
2 min

A splash of colour

I 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...

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Helen@Moreton

Jan 31, 2016
3 min

Water, water, everywhere

This 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? ...

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Helen@Moreton

Jan 22, 2016
3 min

Garden school

My family has its fair share of gardeners. My parents have a fabulous garden and mum has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the latin names of...

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Helen@Moreton

Jan 20, 2016
2 min

Down the garden path

Not surprisingly, getting the house safe and watertight has been our main priority this first year, but we have enjoyed getting to know t...

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Helen@Moreton

Jan 19, 2016
2 min

A bit Downton

I 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 rest...

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Helen@Moreton

Jan 18, 2016
3 min

The beast

We 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 hou...

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Helen@Moreton

Jan 17, 2016
2 min

The guest suite

Having 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, bu...

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Helen@Moreton

Jan 16, 2016
3 min

Setting up basecamp

Having done the obvious stuff (meaning that the existing apartment was functional, if not exactly beautifully restored, and we have a sof...

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Harvey Phillips

Jan 15, 2016
2 min

The big kid

The 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 I...

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Helen@Moreton

Jan 14, 2016
2 min

A year on, and still standing

It’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 plann...

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Helen@Moreton

Mar 24, 2015
2 min

Bigger and older

Quite a week at Moreton. Not only did the house get bigger, it also got older! Starting with the bigger – a really exciting step forward ...

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