Preservation and hospitality organisation Wildland has collaborated with Groves-Raines Architects to transform former clergy living-quarters into an intimate guesthouse within the Scottish highlands.
Lundies House is nestled throughout the rural village of Tongue and takes over a former manse – a dwelling created for and inhabited by a Christian minister.
Standing for the reason that 17th-century, the constructing has been remodeled by Wildland‘s inner design staff right into a guesthouse that boasts “Scandi-Scot” interiors.
“[Lundies] is a wedding of the distinctive Scottish vernacular and up to date Scandinavian design,” defined Wildland’s co-owner, Anne Storm Holch Povlsen, who developed the guesthouse with the organisation’s head of design, Ruth Kramer.
“The Nordics characterize one thing very easy and straightforward going,” continued Povlsen.
“The design could be very a lot influenced by the respect for supplies, making a bit of furnishings as easy but practical and long-lasting as potential.”
With the assistance of Edinburgh-based follow Groves-Raines Architects, the primary flooring of the constructing has been tailored to accommodate three neutral-tone bedrooms. Every one comes full with a king-sized mattress and ensuite lavatory.
The highest flooring performs host to a personal condominium, the Flora Room, which sees a sequence of dwelling areas slotted beneath the eaves of construction’s roof.
Surfaces have been painted moss-green within the sitting space, which is centred by a gray couch from Danish model &tradition.
Within the lavatory, a standalone tub has been positioned beside a window that has views of a close-by loch and historic Fortress Varrich.
Communal areas have been designated to the bottom flooring, the place Wildland and Groves Raines have labored to disclose the architectural bones of the guesthouse – authentic options like flagstone flooring and plaster moulding on the ceiling have been preserved all through.
The guesthouse’s previous can be hinted at in its title – Reverend Lundy was the primary proprietor of the property when it served as a manse.
New options embody a wall mural within the eating room by French artist Claire Basler, which depicts grasses and wildflowers set towards a moody gray sky.
Oak bistro-style chairs have been positioned all through, together with marble-topped tables.
The adjoining front room has been dressed with a velvet couch, woven rug and cosy armchairs upholstered in boucle material.
Random ornaments and work have additionally been dotted throughout the room’s mustard-yellow partitions and full-height cabinets – an effort by Povlsen to make friends “really feel like [they’re] visiting an artwork collector’s personal house”.
“We wish Lundies to really feel real and private – not staged or contrived. Each merchandise has been rigorously sourced and chosen,” added Povlsen.
“Typically it was simple for us to resolve upon a element within the inside – however generally we mentioned it for a protracted, very long time, earlier than discovering the appropriate merchandise, piece of furnishings or color for that matter.”
One of many website’s outbuildings has been transformed into three additional visitor studios, which have been accomplished in a extra pure materials palette – bedrooms right here function uncovered brick partitions, flecked stone flooring and timber joinery.
They give the impression of being onto a central courtyard, which can be utilized as an out of doors eating house throughout the hotter summer season months.
One other outbuilding kinds The Bothan: a two-floor visitor suite for households that features self-catering services.
Wildland is headed up by married couple Anders and Anne Povlsen, who collectively work to preserve, defend and create environmentally aware growth choices for distant areas of Scotland.
Final 12 months, the organisation labored with GRAS – the sustainability-focused sister-studio of Groves-Raines Architects – to finish a up to date vacation house in Tongue named Kyle House, which takes over a derelict cottage.