Maes Oaken Holiday Cabins

Maes Oaken Holiday Cabins This memorable place is anything but ordinary. With amazing views, red kite, buzzards and a Tawny Owl soar above.

Nestled in the Welsh countryside overlooking a beautiful rolling valley, Acorn Cabin is a warm cosy off-grid holiday home.

How exciting.. the larch arrived for the cladding!
03/06/2026

How exciting.. the larch arrived for the cladding!

Cheeky little extra job because they couldn’t come and get the digger until lunchtime today. It’s got planning permissio...
19/05/2026

Cheeky little extra job because they couldn’t come and get the digger until lunchtime today.

It’s got planning permission for a 10’x8’ shed so I’ve dug out somewhere to put it. Not perfectly level by any means but a hell of a lot better than my first attempt last week. I didn’t do a before photo, but you can clearly see where the soil and turf were.

Seems like a hell of a big Shed just for cleaning stuff!

Digger day 5 - used the digger as a scoop because I didn’t want to take it back down and cut up the grass and mud anymor...
16/05/2026

Digger day 5 - used the digger as a scoop because I didn’t want to take it back down and cut up the grass and mud anymore. So hand barrowed 12 loads of gravel and four of topsoil down to the cabin. I re-topped the path and the lovely Glyn turned up with his front loader and redid the car park. Finished off round the patio

Then cleaned the cabin for guests, popped out for shopping and then built a trellis and put in two Clematis, built a raised bed to fill in the space. I’m going to fill it with herbs and nice colourful stuff

That’s phase one done. Come back in about two weeks for phase 2!

Before and after stage 1
16/05/2026

Before and after stage 1

Digger day 4. Huge amount done today. Patio finished it just needs tidying up around the edges, all the building materia...
15/05/2026

Digger day 4. Huge amount done today. Patio finished it just needs tidying up around the edges, all the building materials tidied up ready for the guest tomorrow and thanks to my wonderful neighbour two doors up (that’s about half a mile), Glyn Thomas, popping in to help for half an hour - he levelled all the spoil and scraped as much of the mud off the grass as he could. Not something I could have even attempted!

So a huge hugely successful day despite the rain and hail!

Digger day 3… didn’t use the digger. Torrential rain overnight continued on and off all day, and Teranis (Thor) kindly s...
14/05/2026

Digger day 3… didn’t use the digger. Torrential rain overnight continued on and off all day, and Teranis (Thor) kindly sent me hailstones a couple of times which was delightful.

So I manually barrowed the slabs and the sand down to save using the digger and cutting up the grass even more. I have about 35 hours before the guests arrive… it’s looking better but a lot still to do

Digger day 2… what a nightmare. Pipes fixed, so that’s sorted, back filled and leveled, ton bag of MOT ripped on the way...
13/05/2026

Digger day 2… what a nightmare. Pipes fixed, so that’s sorted, back filled and leveled, ton bag of MOT ripped on the way down the hill so had to (hand) shovel it back up. MOT base in for 3/4 of the space.. site looks like the bloody Somme and now it’s raining hard so it’s a bog and I can’t use the digger

Back is starting to really ache and I haven’t even started the slabs 🤣

Looks like Misty has found her spot…
12/05/2026

Looks like Misty has found her spot…

Digger day 1… so hard. I didn’t think it would be easy but wow.Anyway big hole dug.. 3 broken pipes oops 🤪
12/05/2026

Digger day 1… so hard. I didn’t think it would be easy but wow.

Anyway big hole dug.. 3 broken pipes oops 🤪

Bought two young oak trees for the front entrance. Sadly the right hand side is a foot deep in MOT so I’m not sure if th...
10/05/2026

Bought two young oak trees for the front entrance. Sadly the right hand side is a foot deep in MOT so I’m not sure if that one will take but I literally couldn’t dig through it 😥

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Llangyniew
Welshpool
SY210JT

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