Lundies Home is a “Scandi-Scot” visitor dwelling inside a 17th-century manse

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 Home 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 workforce 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 signify one thing very easy and simple going,” continued Povlsen.

“The design could be very a lot influenced by the respect for supplies, making a chunk of furnishings as easy but useful and long-lasting as attainable.”

With the assistance of Edinburgh-based apply Groves-Raines Architects, the primary flooring of the constructing has been tailored to accommodate three neutral-tone bedrooms. Each comes full with a king-sized mattress and ensuite lavatory.

The highest flooring performs host to a personal condo, the Flora Room, which sees a collection of residing areas slotted beneath the eaves of constructing’s roof.

Surfaces have been painted moss-green within the sitting space, which is centred by a gray couch from Danish model &custom.

Within the lavatory, a standalone tub has been positioned beside a window that has views of a close-by loch and historic Fort 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 – unique options like flagstone flooring and plaster moulding on the ceiling have been preserved all through.

The guesthouse’s previous can also be hinted at in its title – Reverend Lundy was the primary proprietor of the property when it served as a manse.

New options embrace 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 lounge 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 visitors “really feel like [they’re] visiting an artwork collector’s personal dwelling”.

“We would like Lundies to really feel real and private – not staged or contrived. Each merchandise has been fastidiously sourced and chosen,” added Povlsen.

“Generally it was simple for us to resolve upon a element within the inside – however typically we mentioned it for a protracted, very long time, earlier than discovering the suitable merchandise, piece of furnishings or color for that matter.”

One of many web site’s outbuildings has been transformed into three additional visitor studios, which have been accomplished in a extra pure materials palette – bedrooms right here characteristic uncovered brick partitions, flecked stone flooring and timber joinery.

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They appear onto a central courtyard, which can be utilized as an outside eating house in the course of the hotter summer season months.

One other outbuilding types The Bothan: a two-floor visitor suite for households that features self-catering amenities.

Wildland is headed up by married couple Anders and Anne Povlsen, who collectively work to preserve, shield 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 recent vacation dwelling in Tongue named Kyle Home, which takes over a derelict cottage.