After several months deliberating on buying a plot, we bought our wee piece of land with planning permission near Rafford. We neither wanted nor could afford the house on the planning permission so alongside our architect Kirsty Maguire we set about changing that, roll on several more months before plans were resubmitted and accepted. The plan was then to sort out building warrant and start building in April 2014. Building warrant was submitted Christmas 2013, but with several alterations in January – some rather severe, we were granted our building warrant in May 2014.
What the planners accepted…
Builders were then next on the list… The house has been designed to be very energy efficient, highly insulated and air tight. We were not left with a huge choice of local (ish) builders who had built properties to these standards. Luckily we came across Northmuir, a small company based near Inverness, who were just completing a similarly spec’d house nearby. Several visits later to this and previous builds, Northmuir were tasked with building our own wee home…
The plot – slightly obscured by overgrown grass!
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