{"id":147952,"date":"2024-11-03T21:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/make-do-and-mend-a-welsh-cottage-gets-all-dressed-up\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T21:18:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T14:18:59","slug":"make-do-and-mend-a-welsh-cottage-gets-all-dressed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/make-do-and-mend-a-welsh-cottage-gets-all-dressed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Make do and mend: a Welsh cottage gets all dressed up"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA sheepskin bootmaker has furnished her lovely yellow house in Wales with home-made, second-hand and repurposed materialsWe\u2019d always wanted to live in this area of Wales,\u201d says Xanthe Dewsnap. \u201cThe dream was somewhere with big windows and a large garden, so when this house and grounds turned up, it was so exciting to finally find somewhere that ticked all the boxes. I remember first setting eyes on it, it looked quite beautiful within the hilly Carmarthenshire landscape, a colourful blot of pale yellow on the outside and all white on the inside.\u201dSince buying the property 17 years ago, Xanthe, a sheepskin boot designer, and her husband Gareth, a graphic and 3D designer, have worked extensively to get it to how it is now, much of the work done by themselves or with the help of friends. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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