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How indoor plants can help your wellbeing & mental health

How indoor plants can help your wellbeing & mental health

It’s a known fact the gardening can bring a gardener many rewards not just to the eye with a visual display. It also helps with your mental and physical health too. This also applies to indoor plants that you might like to grow in your home or office. If you think about it plants can give pleasure as they play a big part of a rooms decoration. The lovely shades green leaves certainly brighten up, and create a great space in Brightham House Bed & Breakfast’s breakfast room. Indoor plants can help improve a plain room into a bright and...

Brightham House’s Covid-19 Guidelines

Brightham House’s Covid-19 Guidelines

Brightham House’s Covid-19 Guidelines We aim to deliver all our guests a safe and enjoyable stay at Brightham House Boutique Bed & Breakfast. We as hosts will and ask you as guests to follow these simple 10 House Procedures during your stay with us. On entry and walking around the house at all times, please wear a face mask and use the hand sanitiser stations. They are at each entrance so wash your hands. Please obey the 1 metre social distancing rule throughout the house & garden. And at all times and where possible 2 metres. There is a one-way...

Brightham House’s Garden Design Makeover

Brightham House’s Garden Design Makeover

When we first moved in to what is now Brightham House Boutique Bed & Breakfast there wasn’t just the house that needed transforming and bringing back to life, it was the courtyard garden too. As you can see (photos below) the garden hadn’t been cared for many years, it was overgrown and needed someone with green fingers. With the help of friends and family the garden was cleared of all the overgrown plants, ivy and unwanted shrubs. It reveled a lovely big stonewalled enclosed garden and lots of space.       Alistair’s a keen plant lover, and fairly good...

How to Bake Off scones Video ‘Devon Cream Tea’

How to bake scones and make your own ‘Devon Cream Tea’ – Brightham House style. To commemorate the 75th anniversary for VE Day 🇬🇧 Ingredients 350g self-raising flour, plus more for dusting ¼ tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder 85g butter cut into cubes 3 tbsp caster sugar 175ml milk 1 tsp vanilla extract squeeze lemon juice Beaten egg to glaze Jam and clotted cream, to serve And it only takes 15 minutes to prepare and cook. All that’s left is for you to eat and enjoy it!  Check out Brightham House Boutique B&B Salcombe. And their award winning breakfast...

Salcombe hotel or B&B?

bubbling hot tub at brightham house hotel salcombe

If you’re planning your next short break, trawling the web for best deals and the most popular accommodation, do you choose a hotel in Salcombe or a more homely B&B? In this article, we help you consider why a B&B may offer a better experience than a Salcombe hotel. What is the difference between a hotel, guesthouse and B&B? VisitEngland calls both B&Bs and guest houses ‘guest accommodation’, TripAdvisor defines  a ‘hotel’ as having a 24 hour reception and AA Hospitality say that an establishment with ‘hotel’ in its name should be treated as a hotel. What about the star...

‘Saturday Kitchen’ in South Hams Devon

New to the menu at  Brightham House Boutique Bed & Breakfast chef ‘Scott’ shows you how to cook American Pancakes topped with Creme Fraiche & Summer Fruits. And all you need are these 10 simple ingredients: 100g of Self Raising Flour 10g Melted Butter Pinch of Salt 1/2 Tablespoon of Caster Sugar 1/2 Teaspoon of baking powder 1 Egg 100ml of Milk 2 Ginger buiscuts Summer Fruits Creme Fraiche And it only takes 15 minutes to prepare and cook. All that’s left is for you to eat and enjoy it!  Check out Brightham House Boutique B&B Salcombe. And their award...

Malborough to Hope Cove Countryside Walk – No.1

Malborough to Hope Cove Countryside Walk – No.1

When you visit Brightham House Boutique Bed & Breakfast why not explore one of our beautiful local recommended walks. Walk from Malborough to Hope Cove – A local Beach It will take you around 45 minutes to get to Hope Cove. It’s mostly across the fields taking in the breathtaking views of our coastline and out to sea.  Start by going through Lower Town and walk past the church.  Go right at the fork and follow the lane down towards Hope Cove.  Watch out for tractors. After 10 minutes or so you will see a footpath sign on the left...

Brightham House Bed & Breakfast – Temporary closure statement 

Brightham House Bed & Breakfast – Temporary closure statement 

Brightham House Bed & Breakfast – Temporary closure statement As like all of you we have been asked to make difficult changes to our work and personal lives to ensure we all stay safe and well. Brightham House is now closed until further notice. We want to inform you that during these times we will continue to make many improvements Brightham House. Ensuring that when we are able to reopen, we will be ready to welcome you. We will continue to monitor the Government & NHS coronavirus COVID-19 guidelines on a daily basis, and we will update guests with our...

Business as usual – Personal message from Scott & Alistair

Business as usual  – Personal message from Scott & Alistair

Brightham House Bed & Breakfast – Business as usual Following the recent government announcements 16th March 2020 regarding COVID-19 Coronavirus and NHS health guidelines. We are committed to ensure the safety of our guests, neighbours and ourselves. Regarding your stay at Brightham House, we have the following measures in place to ensure we continue to look after our guest welfare and provide a safe environment. Current bookings Scott & Alistair continue to look forward to welcoming you to stay with us in our home. The South Hams is very much still open for business. Our local attractions can be found...