design something to the width of 283.5 cm, it’s no problem.” To complement his handiwork, Emma sourced a striking black and white sink from Tiki Moon.


Although in the bathroom the couple had an abundance of space, the main bedroom was a tight squeeze. “It was a head scratcher; it’s a small room with not a lot of options and obiously you hae to fit a bed in.  didnt know how to lay it out and make it look good at the same time.” Fortunately, Hamish says he was ready to listen to Emma’s advice. She advised building bedside tables into the wood panelling which would double up as a headboard. She also suggested changing the cables for the bedside lamps to black and shortening the cables so nothing was dangling on the oor, all of which created the illusion of more oor space. However, there was one thing that Emma was keen to do, and Hamish was not and that was to add the reveals at the side of the panelling around the bed. “I actually asked the Tiny Estate


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Guys whether or not to do the reveals and they replied a hundred per cent do it,” says Emma. “She was right!” Hamish adds.


ON REFLECTION It’s taken about a year to put the cottage back together and Hamish admits that he and Emma have been very fortunate. “We think about what we’d like and most of the time we can make it, it’s quite a nice skill to have. There was no pressure to finish the renoations as we were living with Emma’s parents and that allowed us to spend a month photoshopping the bathroom which is a luxury.” oweer, now the cottage is finished, was it


really worth taking it apart to build it back up again? Hamish says that stripping it to the bone was the right approach: “I think if you don’t take it all the way back there’s always something you don’t know about. We know everything about this house, and I think if it had carried on the way it was, it might not have lasted that long. I think we’ve given it a new life.”


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