Personal Logbook of Mel and Mary Owen

Building our own Home on our new Equestrian Property

We bought a 12.66 acre arable field in 1988, and then designed and constructed our home in 1989 and lived in it for 32 years until 2021. In the large vegetable garden you will see the greenhouse and, to its right, the kerosene tank. You will see the electrical fencing around the main growing area to deter herbivores. To the right you will see the 20m by 60m dressage arena. To the left of our drive is our small orchard.

The property we had purchased

Our Stable Yard is shown at the foot of the field most of which we also purchased
Please compare the lack of trees depicted round our boundary with how it looked 30 years later.

Mary planted hundreds of saplings which grew to trees more than 30 ft high

How we designed and built it ourselves

Here is a summary of the Design Objectives and Achievements

Here are a few Photos showing the home at different stages of its construction.

Here is a brief selection of the Design Drawings.

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