Bella&Toby Calming Dog Bed Donut, Comfortable and Cuddler Round Pet Bed - Anxiety Relieve for Small/Medium/Large/XL Dogs Machine Washable Long Lasting (50cm / 20", Beige)

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The barn’s only visible nod to modern technology is the solar panel array and Tesla Powerwall batteries, which make the barn energy neutral across the year, although Toby and Bella export energy in the summer and import it for a couple of months in the winter. However, once they started work, the condition of the barn turned out to be worse than Toby and Bella had feared. “Our biggest challenge was realising how bad it was,” says Toby. Water had damaged sections of the barn, due to years of neglect. “When we took the trusses off, the entire front of the stone wall fell off overnight and then most of the front cob wall fell over. I started to wonder if the whole thing was going to fall down,” he says. Specifying Eco-Friendly Materials

Although Toby was hands-on at points in the build, his focus was to project manage and delegate jobs. “I was coming at it from a design perspective and learning what goes into a self build project, such as scheduling, logistics etc,” he says. Toby was also free to choose his team of tradespeople and refine his own processes to suit his ethos. Toby and Bella’s first hurdle was planning permission for the project – and this brought up an unexpected issue. Although many barns are now gaining conversion permission through Class Q (permitted development), this was not applicable here. The positioning of a listed farmhouse nearby was the problem. Despite being quite a distance away, planners considered the barn to be within the curtilage of the building and therefore a full planning application was required to enable conversion. Our primary mission is to make you and your pet happy, so we decided to offer you this incredible guarantee. Thinking about undertaking a home conversion or renovation? Read our guide to Home Renovations: 10 Steps to Successfully Renovating a House WE LEARNED…

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The bed that was delivered to my home was opened and the instructions followed to allow the bed to take shape. It didn't. The bed is made up of chunks of foam in the bottom, so does not sit flat. If your dog is the 'nesting' kind, as they turn in the bed, the foam is likely to be pushed to the side and they will, essentially, be laying on the floor. The outer ring is also not one piece, meaning it does not conform to a uniform ring shape unless you make it do so.

Heating is supplied by a woodburning stove, fuelled by timber from hedge-laying and coppicing on the farm. “It’s simple and works really nicely,” says Toby. “The insulation is so efficient that we don’t need another heat source, plus it keeps the bills low.”The entrance hallway benefits from a striking glazed roof. The staircase leads up to the main bedroom and ensuite, with two further bedrooms and a bathroom below. The timber walls looks striking alongside the barn’s stonework CALMING & COMFY: designed to provide extra comfort and support, ease stress and anxiety, and promote joint pain reduction. With permitted development no longer an option, the couple made some changes to the design to ensure it had more chance of being accepted by the local planners. Tweaks included one end of the barn being widened with a simplified interior to keep more of the original fabric, including some doors and pine trusses. The project was granted permission to go ahead. “Out of the planning constraint came a better layout,” says Toby.