‘Having the joinery enabled us to add depth of colour and height in certain areas, both of which we feel are imperative to any good room design’
solitary wreath of fir, holly, and heather interwoven with pine cones and sprigs of purple berries provides the only festive decoration to the exterior of the stone farmhouse that poet Lydia Macpherson shares with her husband, Nick MacKinnon. Beautifully simple in form and as natural as its surroundings, it is also, fortunately, exceptionally well tied on. “With 40mph winds and sideways rain a fairly common challenge up here, we don’t really decorate outside for Christmas, apart from a very
