Or perhaps just have a nosy around my domestic space? Well, now that our all-absorbing monster project (aka The Summer of Mystery) has drawn to a close, we’ve put Blairbeg on the market.
Blairbeg is a great house – surprisingly spacious and full of light, yet also super-cosy and easy to manage.
I tried to create a home here that felt modern as well as rural.
. . and which really made the most of its connection to the great outdoors.
In its small steading setting, directly opposite the loch, with just a few neighbours close by, and the west highland way right on your doorstep, Carbeth is a genuinely lovely place to live.
For ten years, these surroundings have provided a truly stunning setting for hundreds of my designs…
… and enabled Tom to develop his own landscape photography practice.
Carbeth is a brilliant place to live and work, to walk and run – or swim. . .
. . . but it’s only a hop and a skip from Milngavie (where there are plenty of good shops and a railway station), and a mere twelve miles from Glasgow. I honestly think there are very few cities in the UK (or elsewhere, for that matter) where you can live so easily in the countryside, yet nip so quickly into town.
If you’d like more information about the property, do get in touch with Morgan and Roscoe at West Homes (a great local small business). And if you’d like to see more pictures of its environs, Tom has put together a gallery of images all photographed within a few hundred metres of our old front door.
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Midges?!
seriously?
Used to live in Milngavie, in Kersland Drive. Might have thought of coming back up, but I have to avoid living anywhere near a wood burner and I guess that the other houses probably have them.
It is definitely the type of house and location we want to find, but we are still about 3 years out from retiring to Scotland. Someone is going to get a gem – I’m sorry it isn’t going to be us.
Kate – why is it I have to have a WordPress account in order to leave a comment on your blog? I tried to open one and was hit with numerous questions about developing a website, which I do not need! Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks, Karen
Hi Karen, you definitely don’t need a WordPress account – I’m not sure what’s happening here but I’m sorry you are having these issues
I had the same issues for weeks with your blog and other wordpress blogs – finally bit the bullet and opened an account. I did have to dig deep to skip the nonsense about a website and simply establish a name and password. It wasn’t easy.
I’m so sorry – I had no idea this was happening
For me, it was a problem with all the WordPress blogs all the time, not just yours. This only started earlier this year, after WP changed the comments interface (the latest “upgrade”, I suppose?) Before that I could always log on to these blogs as “anonymous”. I wondered whether I was somehow putting the wrong input at the wrong time in the comments boxes of these various blogs, as they would always kick me out and then refuse even to show me the comments box for another try. I’m still nervous about commenting for fear the whole mess will start up again, but apparently I’ve managed to keep permanently logged in to WordPress, on this device at least. Fingers crossed!
Thank you for that wonderful view of your (former?) home. It looks just dreamy and although I would love to move to Scotland, I confess I’m not ready to leave beautiful Cape Cod, and family members at my age. I wish you every good luck with the sale and it would be nice to have a look around your new mill home.
I’m finally working along on the Cowal Cowl. It was a bit of a challenge mastering the twists stitches but it’s going to be perfect when finished. I already have plans to make a 2nd one with yarn that I recently obtained from Rachel Challoner on Fair Isle. Thank you for the beautiful frequent updates to both of you! Sue Sharpe, Mashpee, Cape Cod, MA
I wish it were possible. Finances don’t allow, but I appreciate the opportunity to dream!
Feeling like discovering “l’envers du décor”…behind the scenes…both honoured and nosy !
I’m amused that the real estate agent describes it as a “Stunning Four Bedroom Huse” – a typo or just writing in Scots? Either way, it certainly is!
I LOVE being nosy about other people’s spaces–especially creative people–and I think I remember walking past that cluster of buildings on the WHW. I’ve enjoyed living there vicariously through all of your posts and Tom’s lovely photographs: may the next owners love it just as much!
I have great memories of Carbeth when my grandparents were alive, so I would love to say YES! But I can’t persuade my DOH – east Anglian born and bred – to live in the west of Scotland 🤣🤣
Too wet for us, but what a really lovely home you created.
Beautiful home! It would make a lovely offering on the television program Escape to the Country!
Looks absolutely awesome. Lucky you!
But we moved 3 years ago, & I can’t see my husband wanting to go through that again – all the upheaval. Besides which, I have SAD, and doubt whether even the snow would help the short winter days all that much.
But all the best to whoever does buy it, may they enjoy it at least as much as you and Tom have! & thanks for letting us nosy round.
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Stunning house and surrounding areas. You were lucky to have time there.
I know. I felt lucky to be there every day
Beautiful pictures 🌹🌹
Wrong question, I mean: who wouldn’t? What a beautiful house and home you created together!
Both the house and the setting are absolutely gorgeous. However I must admit as a Londoner that I was most struck by the asking price. Where I live in Islington you could buy a small flat for that amount. A large family house, like yours beautifully restored and decorated with a fair sized garden, would set you back at least £1.5 million. Sadly this means that even many well-paid professional people find it too expensive to live here, with sad results for the community. One local primary school closed in July and two others have merged.
the difference is totally crazy isn’t it?
oh woww, it looks stunning! Next week I will walk the West Highland way, so we will pass by! It has been a dream from me from the minute your West Highland book came out. I always hoped to give you a visit but now you moved to another place we only will see the stunning surroundings. I am looking forward to walk from Milngavy to Fort William. Monday we will arrive in Glasgow. Xx
have a lovely time – the weather is great at the moment! x
One word: beautiful 🥰
But too big for me and too far away of my children, in Dutch : “helaas” because I love it also ☺️