Let’s Make a Start

 We moved here to Stickle Tarn in Carmarthenshire July 2014

This is our home a typical welsh farmhouse, we love our home and over the past seven years we have been busy sorting out fencing, setting up growing areas, creating a home for our livestock, now it’s time to sort our home and turn it into a functional dream home that will accommodate our needs for the present day and for the future.

We are now getting damp issues


The house has thick stone walls and damp is seeping through in the kitchen and living room

Air circulation is very poor in the house because the windows only have a small opening at the top, contributing to mould growth.

There is very little storage areas, and the small storage room at the back of the house 
 Was like an ice box and a leaky one that that, many a time we had to put on coats and wellies to venture in there, it was not suitable to store food, and any kitchen utensils stored there would have to be washed before use.

The plan is build a new big kitchen extension boot room and downstairs wet room (thinking of our old age) and a big walk in pantry and a new store room to take the freezers. 



We are also going to build a two storey extension on the other side of the house giving us a lovely big living room with views across our land, at the moment none of our windows give us a view across the land. The upper floor will be a big main bedroom for us.

We had plans drawn up almost 3 years ago, dealt with planning permissions, installed maternity bat boxes to comply after a year of bat surveys 


Now with everything in place we were ready to start, or so we thought, Martin then sustained a shoulder injury and needed an operation, recovery took a long time and had its own problems, then we had COViD and lockdowns now we have come through all that and life started to resemble some sort of normality we can really get started.

Join us on our journey


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  1. Poppypatchwork19 September 2021 at 02:19

    Exciting times, whilst all the dust is flying just remember the end home you will have.

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  2. Winters End Rambler29 September 2021 at 00:34

    Hope your journey has been more enjoyable than ours is! x

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