Home Renovation Of The Year

TreeHugger points to a very green house that won a home renovation award on a popular TV show.

Grand Designs Live, the slightly addictive t.v. show about house renovations, has named its Voters' Choice Home of the Year, 2008. Winner of the Best Conversion category, Black Sheep House went on to beat off all the other contenders to win the overall prize. That is quite a feat because some of the other houses were far more sophisticated, designer, and stylish. Instead voters went for a sweet hippy house on a remote corner of the Hebrides islands overlooking the sea. Its turf roof and gently curved stone walls blend into the surroundings; so much so that the house cannot be made out in an aerial photograph.

2 comments

Anonymous says 2:57 PM

Wow! this is a nice photo of a very good "house on the hill" look. I bet it would be very hard to maintain and more so, renovate.

A house renovation for this one would be hard to do from the outside to inside.

Anonymous says 2:19 PM

Inside, the traditional stone wall exterior conceals a roomy open plan which is almost church-like and far removed from the original cramped black house.There is hardly a straight line anywhere and the exposed beams resemble a whalebone corset.