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isiting Scotland for a friend’s wedding, Seamus and Lucy Shanks loved the area so much that they started looking online for nearby properties. ‘We saw the listing for this house, and thought it was amazing,’ explains Seamus, who owns London architecture practice, Draw Architecture. The listed building had a Modernist design that won Seamus over straight away, yet when the couple viewed it, Lucy was less impressed. ‘It had been decorated as a farm cottage and was cold, damp and unwelcoming,’ Seamus recalls. ‘Lucy hated it initially, but I knew