Decorative pressed tin panels we admired
Wish we knew the supplier as these are lovely! Love tin? You’ll like www.underthethatch.co.uk/fran that we designed and built.
Top 10 Properties of 2018
Here are the top 10 properties on Under The Thatch this year. Did you get to stay in any of them? We’d love to hear all about it! 1. Bwthyn Trehilyn Once again Bwthyn Trehilyn had the top spot of our Best Properties list and it’s not hard to see why. This quaint little cottage, […]
UTT & Charity lendwithcare
At Under The Thatch we try to practice what we preach – giving back to the community via restoration of ruins and cottage pricing. We are a small business and we believe in helping others to help themselves. That’s why we think the Lend with Care system is an excellent idea. We were very grateful […]
Why Does UTT do Black Friday?
Black Friday is an American tradition for price reductions the day after ‘Thanksgiving’. It seems to have come out of nowhere as a new event over this side of the Atlantic… as a celebration of consumerism. There’s something inherently vulgar about it. So why do we, a small, independent family-run business join in the scrum, […]
Ty Barddu Featured at Life at Ivy Cottage
Rebecca, who blogs over at Life at Ivy Cottage recently spent some time at Tŷ Barddu and visiting the surrounding area. “This half term we stayed at Tŷ Barddu that we booked through Under the Thatch. We have stayed in eight different properties through them over the years and have enjoyed every one. They all […]
Books on Irish vernacular architecture
We’re fans of vernacular architecture – and have published/ helped produce a few books ourselves on the subject (Welsh/Irish interest). We’ve an interest in vernacular architecture from any country, and obviously Wales. Here’s a list of books from a country that we have a particular soft spot for – Ireland. Ireland has a peculiar relationship […]
Making ‘Falun Red’ traditional Swedish paint – Falu rödfärg!
We’re such HUGE fans of traditional Scandinavian buildings, yet despite several visits we’ve never managed to find the right UTT in Sweden (or Norway, Faroes, Iceland, Finland… but we love them all!) So we’re building one nearer to home. We want to have it in distinctive the distinctive red oxide paint…but modern paints available in […]
UTT HQ on the shore – some fresh images
The Cobbler’s children are always the worst shod, they say…and we’re probably guilty of not photographing our own home like we do the UTT cottages – so here’s a few interior shots of UTT HQ – built in 2017
Things we saw and loved in Chester
Such a handsome city!
