After a week away, it’s great to come back to the Files with a striking looking property and, I have to admit, I was sold on The Corner House the minute I laid eyes on it. There’s just something about that combination of a characterful old building with a sympathetic and contemporary extension – that merging of old and new – that feels interesting and exciting when it’s done well. Continue Reading…
Do you ever look at a property online, scanning through the photos, admiring the interior, examining the floor plans, and then spot the price and think, what? And I mean this in a good way as sometimes – and this has happened to me a few times recently – you’ll over-estimate an asking price only to be pleasantly surprised. Continue Reading…
Some posts really do require restraint. I could easily have posted twenty more images of this incredible townhouse in Edinburgh’s West End, which is now on the market with Strutt & Parker. (See my Steller story if, like me, you can’t resist more images.) Indeed, I could have written two posts: one devoted to the fantastic open plan kitchen, dining and living space that inhabits the garden level of this four-floor property, and a second about the rest of the house, which is just as impressive, from the interconnected formal drawing and dining rooms that stretch the depth of the house on the ground floor to the vast, and I mean vast master suite that takes up the entire first floor. (Yes, the entire first floor. It’s stunning.)
If you noted my previous post, you’ll have clocked the geometric tiling obsession, and that post reminded me of this incredible property located in the heart of Barcelona. There’s geometric tiling, and then there’s geometric tiling – that is, tiles that are used as an integral design element, both in terms of their decoration and, as here, as a means of defining zones within an open plan living space. Continue Reading…
I first came across Paul Archer Design a few years ago with the practice’s project on Cross Street in Islington in London. One striking image of the ‘bridge’ structure that extends from the main body of the house to the garden – a structure that contains a super-minimal kitchen – kept cropping up online, and I must admit my first response when I saw this image was: surely this is a really cool looking architectural rendering of someone’s dream project. Continue Reading…
Some houses just have style. Their bones are good, in terms of scale and proportions and detailing, be that period detailing or contemporary. They have great light. It doesn’t hurt to have a great location, obviously. And then there’s that slightly harder to define thing: an interior that feels really beautifully designed and elegant and cool. It might be the fittings, it might be the palette, it might the furniture or artworks. It might be a combination of all of the above. Continue Reading…
Hello and welcome to Copperline. My name is Fiona Reid and this is my blog about coastal living in Scotland.