It occurs to me that I’ve started a few posts now with the words: ‘This has been one of my favourite houses for a long time…’ If not exactly those words, then something similar. But it’s true: I’ve been bookmarking houses for over a year in the run up to launching this blog. And yes, many of them are favourites. Continue Reading…
What better way to start 2014 on Copperline than with one of my favourite houses. If you follow this blog you’ll probably know that, in terms of architecture, I lean towards simplicity and natural materials – projects such as Haus Am Moor and C/Z House pretty much exemplify this ideal for me. Continue Reading…
The more houses I look at, whether online or in magazines or in the flesh, the more I find myself hankering for this: a perfectly simple and understated timber clad ‘box’ – although referring to this house as a box feels wrong as there is so much beauty in this building’s simplicity of form.
This project has been a favourite of mine for some time – indeed, since I first laid eyes on the images on another site. This dramatically redesigned townhouse in Chelsea in NYC has had its fair share of online coverage (see these posts on HomeDSGN, Afflante and Freshome for starters) so why feature it here? Continue Reading…
Arriving outside this detached house in Eskbank in Midlothian in Scotland, there is literally no indication of the exciting, geometric, light-drenched space that waits at the rear of the property. The house was built thirteen years ago as part of a small development, and occupies a corner site with woodland along its southern boundary. Due to the way the property is positioned on the plot there are two large gardens, but the existing house felt disconnected from both. There was simply no indoor-outdoor flow. Continue Reading…
Hello and welcome to Copperline. My name is Fiona Reid and this is my blog about coastal living in Scotland.