{"id":133601,"date":"2023-01-07T23:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/loch-living-a-beautiful-home-on-the-banks-of-the-tay\/"},"modified":"2023-01-07T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T16:21:44","slug":"loch-living-a-beautiful-home-on-the-banks-of-the-tay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/loch-living-a-beautiful-home-on-the-banks-of-the-tay\/","title":{"rendered":"Loch living: a beautiful home on the banks of the Tay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nA design journalist and her family had always relished their trips to Scotland, but when a field by Loch Tay went up for sale, their dreams became realityIn 2013, Jill Macnair and her husband, Neil, bought a field on the edge of Loch Tay in Perthshire. The loch is a long, narrow stretch of dark water flanked by the Ben Lawers mountain range. The area had made a lasting impression on the couple almost 10 years previously when Macnair\u2019s father had led them on a cycling expedition that skirted the south side of the loch. \u201cThe beauty of the landscape hit us both,\u201d Macnair recalls.Years later \u2013 married with two kids and living in London \u2013 the young family were on holiday on the Isle of Mull when Neil saw an ad for a field with planning permission. \u201cWe weren\u2019t particularly thinking of doing anything like this,\u201d says Macnair, \u201cbut we had such lovely memories of the area. On the drive back home, we took a detour to go and see it.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/jan\/07\/loch-living-a-beautiful-home-on-the-banks-of-the-tay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loch living: a beautiful home on the banks of the Tay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; A design journalist and her family had always relished their trips to Scotland, but when&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-yKR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53415,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scottish-whisky-maker-loch-lomond-bets-big-on-china-with-distribution-deal\/","url_meta":{"origin":133601,"position":0},"title":"Scottish whisky maker Loch Lomond bets big on China with distribution deal","date":"May 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Scottish whisky maker Loch Lomond bets big on China with distribution deal","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129184,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/highland-bling-the-hyper-modern-castle-with-a-gold-lined-oculus-and-cladding-made-of-crushed-tvs\/","url_meta":{"origin":133601,"position":1},"title":"Highland bling: the hyper-modern castle with a gold-lined oculus and cladding made of crushed TVs","date":"August 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It has a cinema, an eight-door Aga, a leather ceiling, a gold-rimmed oculus, an outdoor fireplace \u2013 and walls rendered in crushed TV screens. 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