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Despite being in an unspoilt location in the Cairngorms, a couple worked carefully with their architect to create an eco-friendly holiday home that blends into the landscape and maximises the stunning views


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uilding a holiday home within the boundaries of the Cairngorms National Park proved to be more challenging than


Siobhan Turner and Rory Webster anticipated. Fortunately, they had architects who were willing to think outside the box. The area they would seek to build in was


already a given, as the couple were looking to establish a base where they could stay when visiting Rory’s family in Ballater and Aberdeen. However they had another, more altruistic goal: “Knowing it was going to be our holiday home, we were very conscious that we didn’t want to take housing stock out of the


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area,” Siobhan recalls. “That was the reason for choosing to build rather than take on a renovation.” The couple also wanted to avoid the more rural, farming areas of Aberdeenshire, and settled on a plot with far reaching views across two valleys and the River Don. The purchase of the site was completed in ugust , and Siobhan set about finding an architect to take on the project. As Rory and Siobhan live in London, the internet was the obvious starting point. “I did a search for Aberdeenshire architects and found several, but nothing stood out until I saw Strathdon House on Brown & Brown’s website and I


HIGH POINT


The first time  sat in the living space after it was furnished and watched the sunrise – that was magical.”


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