“Two early prefab Swedish timber-framed cabins dropped at the West Highlands within the late Nineties to a 25-acre woodland the place a seven-foot Swedish Viking prince, Borradill, is claimed 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 suggestion earlier than she was capable of tour the place herself. “It did take a little bit of creativeness to see what it might be,” she says.
Luckily, that comes naturally to Claire, who runs her personal London studio, Mookerjee Design. The home and cottage and got here with beneficiant home windows and decks overlooking Loch Sunart and its islands. Rather than, 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 centered on sustainable supplies and finishes, and had the constructions outfitted with their very own UV water filtration programs and photo voltaic panels, so that they’re “primarily off-grid.” Their joiner had a three-hour commute “when the ferry was truly working,” so it took some time. Borradill, because the compound is understood, is now newly full as a trip enclave: Claire and her household lease it out year-round. Check out what simply may be your subsequent nice escape.
Images by Joshua Web page, courtesy of Mookerjee Design (@mookerjee_design).
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“The cabins have been constructed within the late Nineties by a pair who had purchased the positioning as lately felled industrial forestry land,” Claire tells us. “The settlement was they may construct the cabins in the event that they replanted the remainder of the woodlands, which they did lovingly and principally with their very own fingers.”
