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ST PATRICK’S Day parade

Today we took a few hours off to watch the wet and windy parade in Dungloe, West Donegal

Playing with pod layouts

Today we’re playing with alternative layouts for our new mountain pod. A house in just 25m2!

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit!

Slainte is tainte!Happy St Patrick’s Day!Here’s Lukasz and Miki getting ready for the Dungloe parade – we hope you all have a wonderful day, wherever you are.At the moment we’ve got just two UTT cottages in Ireland:www.underthethatch.co.uk/croagh www.underthethatch.co.uk/rciBut…by the end of 2017, all going well… we’ll also have1. a seashore traditional cottage with it’s own […]

Adding a croglofft window

New window added to give a view of the sea from bed at Miki’s cottage. A good day’s work!

Tiling today!

Going for a classic look with simple white tiles…a grey border…grey grout on 1mm spacers.

Progress at the beach

Today we’re exposing the old firebreast during renovations at Miki’s cottage. We will limepoint it up next week.

MOUNTAINPOD phase 2

Our mountain pod begins!

We’re constructing an exciting underground ‘mountain pod’ that we hope to launch this summer. It’s the first building of it’s type…basically a giant balloon that is inflated, sprayed with structural insulating foam and then converted into a small contemporary cabin with glass doors over the lough view. This is Stage 1 – the inflated balloon, […]

A new loft window

We don’t usually knock holes into cottages….but this small additional window will bring a sea view from bed

A PROJECT CONVERSION for 2018….