This sleek designer studio in Edinburgh is a mix of B&B and self-catering and has its own private courtyard garden the fresh breakfast hamper each morning isnt a bad addition either
I used to live a sticks throw from Inverleith Terrace in Edinburghs northern quarter. Its my old stomping or dog-walking ground. In one direction is Inverleith Park, with its wide views over the city, the castle crowning the craggy skyline, in the other the ivy-tangled graves of Warriston Cemetery. The Water of Leith tumbles through here, and a rural ramble along its wildflower-fringed bank takes you to the sea via the revamped dock. Its here, in a lush genteel corner of the city, that the Garden Rooms, a little home from minimalist home, opened at the beginning of the year.
A cross between B&B and self-catering, this bijoux bolthole is in an elegant Georgian building across the park from posh public school Fettes. Sally Weatherly was head of physics at the school before giving it all up to juggle a young family and a B&B with a difference. The Weatherlys live upstairs, and the garden room is an unconnected studio flat downstairs. An architect friend helped with the conversion, which melds solid stonework with uncompromising modernity in a glass box-like extension.
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