CONTACTS/ SUPPLIERS


ARCHITECTS Loader Monteith loadermonteith.co.uk


MAIN CONTRACTOR & JOINERY


Lawrie Construction lawriegroup.co.uk


KITCHEN Archispek archispek.com


STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Entuitive


entuitive.com TILES


Mandarin Stone Mandarinstone.com


WOOD FLOORING Atkinson & Kirby akirby.co.uk


expensive. “The quote was enough to buy a very nice car!” James remembers. “However, everyone went back to the drawing board and the contractors tried pine and standard plywood, and once the ase fire coating had een applied the effect was exactly what we wanted.” Indeed, looking at the completed build, the material palette has been kept simple, but it’s incredibly effective. The walls are plasterboard, the oors are rick or oak, and the ceiling is timber. The staircase which looks like solid oak is made from an MDF carcass and covered in oak ooring. ts a very stripped ack palette ut we spent a lot of time getting the little details right,” Iain explains. These were things like getting the ond o the oak oor and the her- ringbone brick just so, and ensuring the timber treatment on the ceilings matched the kitchen finishes. Lorna designed the kitchen with Archispek, but we worked closely with them to ensure that the kitchen surfaces worked tonally with the ceiling.”


“The kitchen is exactly how Lorna wanted it to be, but it wasn’t intended as a design state- ment,” James explains. “It was her idea to build a peninsula rather than an island so that we could all sit around it, which works brilliantly for


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us as a family. It just so happens that it looks really good as well.” Externally, the materials have been chosen or two distinct reasons. irstly, to reect the heritage of the site and secondly to mirror the existing buildings in the environs. “On the west side we took the red sinusoidal cladding down onto the elevation because it’s still a working farm and that’s where the storage barns are and that effect replicates them,” Iain explains. James continues: “The architects did sug- gest many of the materials, but I requested the ‘sinusoidal’ roof as it reminds me of my Highland roots. Much of the masonry and stonework came from the original steading and we made the rick oor rom its ricks.


A LABOUR OF LOVE The reclaimed rick oor ecame a lockdown proect or ames and uite a significant one too. With the build starting in March 2020, the project hit lockdown at its peak. James spent eight weeks hand cleaning 4000 hand cast bricks and actually remembers it as quite an idyllic time. “The weather was nice; in some respects, it was a quiet relaxing task. However, Lorna says I often returned to the house at lunchtime moan-


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