Homebuilding & Renovating

A cottage transformed

After selling their home in London, and a brief spell in Berlin, Amy and Bryn Jones were looking to move closer to their families in Powys when they happened upon Bachie Cottage, a run-down farm worker’s property set back into a hill on the edge of the village where Bryn grew up. “We wanted a project and spent ages looking for the right house but then this one came up,” begins Amy. “Bryn knew all about the house because his family only lives down the road, but I hadn’t seen it before. As soon as I walked through the front

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