This Is an Ecohouse... We Built It From Scrap ; with Bits From a Chapel and a Police Station, the Home That's a Masterclass in Salvage

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Archie Hunter is the first to admit that the house he built is imperfect, but that explains much of its charm. Built in the Scottish countryside, it is made entirely from scraps and salvage, and looks as though it has slowly grown over the centuries, rather than being a self-build project that was only completed in December 2006.

Eight years ago, Archie, 56, a local farmer turned agricultural contractor, and his wife Anne, 62, who was running an au pair business at the time, were living in a cottage at Rosewell in Midlothian, ten miles south of Edinburgh.

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This Is an Ecohouse... We Built It From Scrap ; with Bits From a Chapel and a Police Station, the Home That's a Masterclass in Salvage

Feeling the urge for more space, the couple were planning to convert a nearby barn when the new owner of the large house next door asked them whether they would give up their right of access to land in front of his house. In ...

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