CASE STUDY JANE OF ALL TRADES
As an architect, Jane Burnside has created many stunning contemporary homes. However, also taking on the role of project manager and interior designer – and even cook – on her own self-build on the Isle of Mull required a whole new skillset
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“When the builders asked me to come over to the site one Sunday, I was surprised. I entered the living room and there was a great big telescope set up. They said ‘we saw you looking on Gumtree for a telescope, so we ordered one for you as a house- warming present.’ I was so touched, and every time I look through it, I think of the great times I had with the amazing team who made this house, Chip, George and Constantine.”
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hildhood sailing trips up Scotland’s west coast had instilled a love of the Isle of Mull in Jane Burnside. So, when she and her husband David Page came
across a property for sale on the island in 2014, they jumped at the chance to buy. Both award-winning architects and experts in their field, ane hails rom orthern reland where she has her own practice, Jane Burnside Architects and David is an artist and founder member of Page\Park Architects in Glasgow. When the couple happened across the two-storey property in Tobermory on Mull, it had already seen some renovation, as Jane recalls: he uilding had een split into ats in the 50s, but the previous owners had managed to purchase oth ats and had restored it ac to one property. As the previous owner was also a haulier, he had built an enormous, two-storey shed in the back yard which offered some potential too.”
or five years, he rt House as they named it – was the couple’s well-loved home but in
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heavyweight construction with double-skin blockwork walls, which gives the property tremendous air-tightness”
2019, they turned it into a holiday let and moved in, after managing to realise the site’s full potential.
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