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Ailsa project managed the build herself, working with a local joinery company for much of the build and organising all the additional trades too. She and Jonny also took on a lot of the work themselves to keep their budget in check.


Making phone calls to order supplies and surveying the site with a baby in a sling wasn’t easy but it allowed Ailsa to keep track of progress and avoid any mistakes. “I was here onsite the whole time while Jonny was doing his first year of teaching in Inverness. He’d be at school all day and then would come home to start tidying up the site, helping the joiners and painting the house.” They had to use a fireproof coating on all the internal wood – another huge job for the couple. “Looking back, I’m not quite sure how we managed running a business, bringing up a baby, building a house and all from a caravan. It’s a bit of a haze!” A haze it may have been, but the result is one the couple can be proud of. “I would say it’s a compact house, but we put a lot of thought into the layout, and it flows really well.” Specifically designed to work not only as a home but to make life easier for the couple to manage the holiday business, dual entrances have been created to perfect that work/life balance. On the ground floor, one enters at the rear of


the property which is the part that any guests see. A discreet door in the log wall leads into a boot room/utility room and into the office. French doors lead out of the office to the deck allowing Ailsa to come and go when working without disturbing the rest of the family. Another


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The planning department would only grant permission for a property that would remain part of the business


access from the boot room leads into the family’s private space opening into an open plan kitchen, diner and sitting room and through to the double height glazed frontage with views across the croft and beyond. A guest bedroom and bathroom are also on


the ground floor. Upstairs there are two double bedrooms, one for Jonny and Ailsa and one which their daughters, Rosie (now five) and Caitlyn (one) share. The deluxe bathroom made it from the wish list to reality with a rolltop bath and a rainfall shower – perfect for a bit of R&R at the end of a busy day. At the top of the stairs a small gallery space has been carved out affording the couple a cosy adult space in which they sit and listen to records and enjoy a whisky of an evening. “There wasn’t a lot we aspired to in life except to have a lovely house,” Ailsa explains. “We


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“There were a few! The day the kit arrived on the big lorry, the day the log walls were finished and the day we moved in.”


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