20 houses to rent for Christmas and New Year in England, Scotland and Wales
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The Tiny House, East Sussex
The closest you’ll get to sleeping in a gingerbread house in the home counties, this timbered farm cottage is, as the name suggests, pretty compact – just 2.4m wide by 4.5m long. It’s off-grid but there’s a galley kitchen, sofa and shower room downstairs and a proper bed up a ladder. Order homemade beef stew (£7pp), wrap up warm and have dinner out on the deck. There’s also a little dining table inside. Read More: |
Could you live in a Tiny House?
Not a write-up, just a mention!
With a one-storey two-room house on the market in London for £275,000, small is becoming a necessity for many looking to get on the property ladder.
Hello and welcome to Part 1,285,746 in our occasional series: I Think It’s Time To Start Taking My Tablets Again. For a house is on sale in Islington for £275,000. “How very reasonable,” you might think, if you had been sealed in a lead-lined bunker for the past 40 years and hadn’t heard anything about the London property market. “I wonder whether it’s two or three bedrooms and the garden is big enough for a dog?” Read more |
Cabin Fever
What is it about writers and huts? Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf, Roald Dahl all worked in them. Authors so often long for the solitude, the escape from distraction, the scent of wood sap in which to create. Yet, as a novelist, I can’t use this as my only excuse. I have simply, most of my adult life, longed for a hut of one’s own.
In an ideal world, this would have been a treehouse, if not a hollow oak. But as the owner of a single spindly tree that is, in fact, a shrub, my notion of writing hidden in leaf shade and sleeping among owls belongs with the clouds and cuckoos. This folly, I know, is a form of regression, an eternal fantasy clearly fuelled in childhood by Arthur Rackham’s twisted bark, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s little houses, tales of rope ladders strung between branches, driftwood and.... Read on: |
How tiny homes in the woods became a dream destination
Builder Mark Burton was one of the first to spot the potential of micro homes and launched Tiny House UK six years ago, selling handcrafted wooden two-storey cabins. He originally saw them as an affordable way for students and young people to get on the property ladder, but says that 50% of his business now comes from clients wanting to offer holiday accommodation, from farmers looking to diversify to homeowners wanting to make a bit of extra money by renting out a space in the garden on Airbnb. His recent commissions include a 2.4x4.5-metre cottage on the Fresh Winds campsite in East Sussex and an off-grid cabin on a remote croft in Clashnessie Bay in Scotland.
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