Balintore Castle Restoration Project

One of the current tasks at the castle is smartening up the accommodation in the entrance tower. Permission has been formally obtained from...

When I discovered that two of today's vistors to Balintore Castle were professional musicians (a violinist and a composer), I couldn...

I had only intended dressing the kitchen wing with flowers for the open day earlier in the year. However, fresh flowers are so transformativ...

One item which holds its value as an antique is the humble bedside cabinet. The reason is that these pieces of furniture are eternally usefu...

Supplies for restoring a castle are not, unfortunately, to be found at your neighbourhood DIY superstore. Sometimes bespoke items have to be...

Forget your Scone Palace and Stone of Destiny, when there is Balintore Castle and the Stone of Hernia. One of the Balintore Castle gate lodg...

When I got back to the castle around a month ago, the broadband was so slow that my computer thought the Internet was broken. Roughly 50% o...