Friends have renovated and conserved their West Donegal home over the last 30 years. Flax thatch…limewash…nice and simple.

Delighted to gave finished the outside of the main cottage…now to finish renovating and reroofing the old granite sheds. Will be ready for guests this summer. For our existing Donegal cottage see www.underthethatch.co.uk/croagh

Being married to a chef has many advtanges…not least the traditional ‘Easter breakfast’ we enjoyed today with friends. If you like Polish traditions then you’ll love our mountain house www.underthethatch.co.uk/suchagora

Launching ready for this summer…this is Miki’s cottage in West Donegal. It has a beach on its land that is effectively private. This week we’ve futted the kitchen and the utility. Worked on the new bathroom and painted the outside.

In the 1980s this traditional cottage lost its limewash and original roof to a grey tin covering and grey cement render. We’ve brought back traditional colour with oxide paint and limewash on the unrendered walls.

After 18 months of building, some stress, much fun and lots of thinking and planning we’ve finally been able to move into Tuaisceart, the house we designed with Keith Makinson RIBA for ourselves in West Donegal. It took ten years to find a suitably private waterfront location with views…and we hope we’ve succeeded in building […]

Stay www.underthethatch.co.uk/laveranda in Andalusia

Lovely house. Nice vernacular mantle. Alas had some road noise despite being almost a kilometre from a road….so not for utt.

We were over at Perez de Hita and Benaguacil last weekend.. .loving the Andalusian sunshine..welcome…food! www.underthethatch.co.uk/perez www.underthethatch.co.uk/benaguacil

Beautiful evening here in Newquay – check out www.underthethatch.co.uk/Zenobia Sent from my iPhone 7 plus ❤