A sheepskin bootmaker has furnished her lovely yellow house in Wales with home-made, second-hand and repurposed materialsWe’d always wanted to live in this area of Wales,” says Xanthe Dewsnap. “The dream was somewhere with big windows and a large garden, so when this house and grounds turned up, it was so exciting to finally find somewhere that ticked all the boxes. I remember first setting eyes on it, it looked quite beautiful within the hilly Carmarthenshire landscape, a colourful blot of pale yellow on the outside and all white on the inside.”Since buying the property 17 years ago, Xanthe, a sheepskin boot designer, and her husband Gareth, a graphic and 3D designer, have worked extensively to get it to how it is now, much of the work done by themselves or with the help of friends. Continue reading...
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