DETAILS
What A renovated and extended former schoolhouse
Where Aberdeenshire
Architect Rachael Walker Architects
Contractor Coldwells Build
Transformation can be profound, even if it’s not exactly visible on first inspection. That, at least, has been the experience of Lee Innes, owner of this former schoolhouse in rural Aberdeenshire, after it underwent a thorough makeover.
“Friends drive up to the house and say: ‘What have you actually done to it?’” she laughs. “We’ve done a lot. But unless you view the house from the side, where you can see the extension, you wouldn’t know there had been any changes at all – which, for us, is a success.”
From the front, the compact cottage, in a thick forest close to a tiny village to the east of the Grampian foothills, looks…