{"id":146971,"date":"2024-09-08T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-henhouse-to-family-home-a-thatched-cottage-in-ireland\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T22:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T15:29:33","slug":"from-henhouse-to-family-home-a-thatched-cottage-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-henhouse-to-family-home-a-thatched-cottage-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"From henhouse to family home: a thatched cottage in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThis striking home is an homage to the art of woodworkIt all started with eggs. As a child in the 1950s in County Meath, Liz Pickett would collect dozens of eggs from the large wooden henhouse on her family\u2019s farm, before walking to school. For more than a century, Liz\u2019s family have lived on this bucolic windswept corner of eastern Ireland, just yards from 12 miles of overarching sandy shoreline, looking over the kinetic Irish Sea, where the range of blue on offer eclipses even the most committed watercolourist\u2019s palette.\u201cIt was Baltic in there today,\u201d says Liz describing her daily dip in the sea. \u201cBut you feel great afterwards, you become addicted.\u201d Liz, who lives with her husband, Roger, and their basset hound, Poppy, built their home in the early 90s on the site of the former henhouse. \u201cWe wanted to keep and preserve the old-world charm and feel when we designed it, so we decided to build a thatched cottage.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/article\/2024\/sep\/08\/from-henhouse-to-family-home-a-thatched-cottage-in-ireland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From henhouse to family home: a thatched cottage in Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; 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