Creating even more space for our youngest guests (and their families!)
We’ve made these improvements to Bradwall and Ashley Cottages – and we think our guests will love them.
When we realised we wouldn’t be able to welcome any holiday guests during the second lockdown we decided to use the time to make some improvements and to provide work for an excellent small local business.
After a lovely young family, who had stayed with us for two and a half months while their home improvements were completed, moved out of Bradwall Cottage on Saturday we started to plan.
To make sure we and others were safe we left the cottage for 48 hours before entering and starting to prepare the smallest bedroom for our talented carpenter Christian. We had always felt there was wasted space in this small room however it wasn’t until Christian looked at it this morning and instantly came up with a brilliant idea that we realised how much storage space we could create to house all our baby guest’s needs.
These had always taken up most of the the room in the wardrobe in this bedroom which has never left much space for adult needs. It is surprising how much space you need to store a travel cot and bedding, a high chair, stair gates, a bedside and other baby bits and bobs. By the end of the day Christian and Dan had built a purpose made cupboard and a single bed base in a recess with plans to paint it all tomorrow!
Also tomorrow they plan to build a similar bed base in Ashley Cottage so that adult guests no longer have to squeeze into a child size bed if they wish to sleep downstairs in this cottage. The downstairs bedroom is too small for a conventional single bed, however we discovered that a purpose built bed base will hold a full size single mattress. This will provide us with much more flexible accommodation as it allows us the opportunity to now offer this cottage to a couple and a single, or to two business people who require a bedroom each. They will just have to toss a coin – who has the king size upstairs bed and who has the downstairs single?!
We have had many adult guests who have happily slept in the small child size single in Ashley Cottage and returned many times, however we are now pleased to be offering them more home comforts which is always our aim.
We'll get some photo's of the improvements as soon as they're complete – check back to see the finished results!
