Category Archives: Renovation Diary

Now we have moved in this will be the last monthly update for a while…  2018 should return to being a hive of activity, however the main house is now very much liveable and we won’t be tackling the same scale of … Continue reading →

August marked our official move-in date.  Quite a lot of work still to do, but enough to be able to make a house a home… at last! The kitchen was receiving some of the (almost) finishing touches with the pantry … Continue reading →

A long overdue update from July.  With over 200 photos to process and a very hectic second half of 2017, including finally moving in(!), this update has been on the back burner for some time – Apologies! We’ll start with the kitchen … Continue reading →

Progress continues to be swift thanks to input from a lot of people!  The floors were one of the big jobs this month with more of the upstairs now fully sanded and sealed and the downstairs stone floors getting a … Continue reading →

Racing along now…  suddenly it looks like a house again!  Over 200 photos this month given how much is going on.  In no particular order, lets start in the bedrooms where we have gone bold in the master bedroom and … Continue reading →

April marks the 5 year anniversary of buying Hallyards and the 2 year anniversary of the proper internal works on the ‘big house’.   Just have a look back at April 2015 to see how far we have come…  It really is … Continue reading →

Another phenomenally busy month, with everything coming together pretty nicely.  Here’s a quick run around the main house, starting with the large upstairs round room which now actually looks like a room again! After the complexity of this room, the rest … Continue reading →