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Welcome to Kello Talu

Story of giving new life to an old farm

Welcome to Kello Talu, a unique blog here for you to explore and follow our journey of giving new lease of life to historic farm estate. Kello Talu has added such value to our life, and we love having the opportunity to share our passions and thoughts and processes with our loyal readers. Read on, and enjoy. If you have any questions please get in touch.

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Lime plaster on internal walls

Lime has amazing properties for creating healthy indoor environment. It is easy to care for, is antistatic, antifungal and antibacterial....

Plaster-boarding

Our next holiday was planned to end of July 2019 and this set the timelines for works that needed to be done for plasterer to be able to...

Keeping the cold out - thermal plaster

Finally the spring arrived and the weather started to warm up our cold and forgotten house. The sun beaming on stone walls and peeking in...

Damp and cold fortress

The walls of the barn are solid limestone approximately 60cm thick. Lower part of the wall 60cm was covered with vertical cladding. Due...

From family tree to mantle piece

First steps first. When we purchased the house we were aware that there are few finishing works needed in the house with fireplaces and...

The house of three chimneys

I read once that chimneys were a sign of wealth back in the day as it would indicate that you have resources to keep the hearths burning....

New roof is rotting in front of our eyes

The previous owner had put up new roof. According to advice that we have gathered it is supposed to be storm proof and of very good...

The water stinks!

On the day of purchase we sat in the garden after our walk all the way to North border. Long hiking trek had taken its toll and we...

Safeguarding the asset

Over the years and numerous previous owners the nature lived at it own course. Saplings that once sprung up and were not removed grew...

Planning 1000 miles away

Our purchase trip only lasted 3 days: view, sign and fly away. Leaving only one night to convince my young starting builder brother to...

From the very beginning

Back in June 2018 my dear husband was tinkering in the garage and came up with an idea: "How about we buy a house in Estonia? Nothing...

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