Property News · August 7, 2021

Writer’s residence: a self-built cabin in the woods


Part caravan, part cabin, this ‘carabane’ is the ideal retreat for this Belgian writerA room of one’s own and £500 a year”, Virginia Woolf famously claimed she needed in order to write. While Roald Dahl could only work in his garden house, where he sat in a worn-out armchair with a wooden plank on his lap, Maya Angelou always rented a basic hotel room in her home town as an office.Almost every writer has such a place, where words come more easily, and Jill Mathieu – former editor-in-chief of Vice and now a copywriter living in Ghent – has her own version. When her search for a quiet place to write failed, Mathieu built herself what she calls a “carabane” – a cross between a caravan and a cabine, or cabin – on wheels. But her cosy workspace has grown into something more – a regular weekend stay. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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