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Feed your joy for Spring with a Blackdown soup recipe.
A couple of weeks ago the sun came out and inspired us to do a little feel-good cooking in our Family Brace Hut in our display garden. With the doors open and this year’s first tulips dancing in the flower beds, we couldn’t resist making a soup inspired by a beautiful...
Farm Diversity Success
Alan Hetherington, Customer Relationship Manager explains how we helped The Parlour, at Greenacres. Here at Blackdown we’ve seen a definite increase in farmers diversifying part of their holding into a glamping business, in the main attracted by the high return on...
Andy Burr’s SB177 14’ Self Build Shepherd Hut
In 2013 my wife & I decided that we would like additional bedroom accommodation, but felt that an extension to the house was not practically feasible. Friends in Somerset have 2 old original shepherd’s huts, which gave us the idea that a hut in the garden could...
Self build stories – Bruce Herriot
We love seeing your pics of your self build huts all built, dressed and ready to be loved and enjoyed for years to come. So you can imagine our delight when Bruce Herriot sent us some images of his hut in situ. Because we like a good story, we asked Bruce all about...
Introducing our new Swinging Day Bed and Canopy – in collaboration with Sitting Spiritually
We are more than a bit excited to share a new product with you – well, more than just a new product, a new collaboration too. And that’s the new Swinging Day Bed and Canopy, made in collaboration with Sitting Spiritually. We unveiled this amazing creation for the...
We’re heading to Badminton Horse Trials – come and see us, our huts, and something else extra special!
Badminton Horse Trials in Gloucestershire has been a very firm part of our event calendar for a few years now, and we’re very excited about this year too. This year, not only will be bringing one of our Turnkey Shepherd Huts to Badminton, we’ll also be bringing an...
Blackdown Loves… Sitting Spiritually
We’re really excited to be able to share an amazing business with you. We met Martin, the founder of Sitting Spiritually, over at Blackdown HQ in March and very quickly found ourselves adoring the collection. From wooden swings with beautiful carving to luxurious...
Do I need planning permission for my shepherd hut?
Ohhh… it’s a good question, isn’t it? We get asked this a lot (and with good reason!). So, do you need planning permission for your shepherd hut? Short answer is, it depends… Before we get further into this blog, we stress that we are not planning consultants – in...
Two Blackdown Huts make The Times’ winter glamping top 10!
We were more than a little excited on Saturday when we saw that not one, but two of our huts belonging to two of our lovely clients had been listed in The Times’ winter glamping feature by Liz Bird. Well done Dimpsey and StarBed Hideaways! Both of these huts are in...
Hut highlights of 2018
We've had a great year! We've created some fantastic huts, met some amazing people, delivered huts to some diverse destinations, and attended some cracking events. Our highlights have included: Badminton - we really do enjoy this event in the horsey world! Our Turnkey...