L'attrait des Hébrides
The lure of the Hebrides
The Scottish Hebrides are known for an almost otherworldly allure that draws visitors back year after year. “It’s not just the beaches, rocks and constantly changing colors,” said Liz , who has spent more than four decades vacationing with her family on the Isle of Tiree, one of 500 or so islands off the northwestern coast of Scotland that make up the Hebrides. “Tiree has a magical light. Even on a gray day, it lifts your spirits.” After all that time, and her husband, Dave, wanted a permanent piece of beachfront. So in 2008, they bought a traditional blackhouse, or stone cottage, just 650 feet from the ocean. “It was a ruin,” Liz said. But even so, “It had a sense of peace about it.” Their plan was to restore the cottage and add a small extension so they could live there five months a year, when they weren’t at their house near Glasgow. But they soon discovered that the structure was dangerously unstable — beyond repair, in fact. It is their son, an architect 35 years old who drew the final plans. His design consisted of two volumes connected by a glass-roofed structure: a modern main house and a guesthouse built to resemble the original cottage, with thick stone walls and a tarred roof. “The concept was to create a traditional cottage with ‘agricultural’ buildings around”
source : NY Times
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