Be inspired by the surroundingsCharacter doesn’t have to mean bold colours and zany design, as this beautiful, pared-back Irish cottage brilliantly demonstrates. As owner Brian Spain puts it: “There’s so much going on outside the cottage – an ever-changing landscape of 100 square kilometres – that the interior needed to be comfortable, cosy and uncluttered, using a simple palette of natural materials.” Originally a mountain shelter for goats, the walls were intact, but with no render on them. “The floor was mud, and the roof was dried moss and thatch,” explains Spain. To painstakingly bring the cottage back to life, Spain used new larch roof timbers foraged from the forest behind the cottage, lime-rendered walls, wooden sash windows and furnishings crafted from local Douglas fir. See the rest of this beautiful Irish cottage
Be inspired by the surroundingsCharacter doesn’t have to mean bold colours and zany design, as this beautiful, pared-back Irish cottage brilliantly demonstrates. As owner Brian Spain puts it: “There’s so much going on outside the cottage – an ever-changing landscape of 100 square kilometres – that the interior needed to be comfortable, cosy and uncluttered, using a simple palette of natural materials.” Originally a mountain shelter for goats, the walls were intact, but with no render on them. “The floor was mud, and the roof was dried moss and thatch,” explains Spain. To painstakingly bring the cottage back to life, Spain used new larch roof timbers foraged from the forest behind the cottage, lime-rendered walls, wooden sash windows and furnishings crafted from local Douglas fir. See the rest of this beautiful Irish cottage
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