“Two early prefab Swedish timber-framed cabins delivered to the West Highlands within the late Nineteen Nineties to a 25-acre woodland the place a seven-foot Swedish Viking prince, Borradill, is alleged to have been buried.” Set between moor and sea loch, the property sounded so great to inside designer Claire Mookerjee and her husband—already common vacationers within the area—that he had put in a proposal earlier than she was in a position to tour the place herself. “It did take a little bit of creativeness to see what it could possibly be,” she says.
Thankfully, that comes naturally to Claire, who runs her personal London studio, Mookerjee Design. The 2 homes got here with beneficiant home windows and decks overlooking Loch Sunart and its islands. Instead of, in Claire’s phrases, “thick, inexperienced pub carpet, yellowing varnished pine on each floor, and a surplus of English-style furnishings,” she launched a befitting Scandi-by-way-of-Scotland sensibility: pale wooden, checked textiles, and linseed oil paint in a palette impressed by Carl Larsen’s own residence.
Claire targeted on sustainable supplies and finishes, and had the constructions outfitted with their very own UV water filtration programs and photo voltaic panels, in order that they’re “primarily off-grid.” The joiner on the mission had a three-hour commute “when the ferry was really operating,” so it took some time. Borradill, because the compound is thought, is now newly full as a trip enclave: Claire and her household hire it out year-round. Check out what simply may be your subsequent nice escape.
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“The cabins had been constructed within the late Nineteen Nineties by a pair who had purchased the positioning as just lately felled industrial forestry land,” Claire tells us. “The settlement was they might construct the cabins in the event that they replanted the remainder of the woodlands, which they did lovingly and largely with their very own fingers.”
