A stately home that’s determined to be part of the local community? Stornoway’s wonderfully welcoming castle is a fine example of how to rewrite the rules with style
If you must make the jump to a more manageable home, it might as well be to a beautiful ultra-efficient new-build – in a corner of your old back garden
This property, a four-bedroom Georgian house in a leafy suburban street, was in good condition when Rebecca Hughes started work on it, but it was ready for modernisation.