Fife Architects Featured in Scottish Field Magazine – Iron Mill Bay

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Fife Architects Featured in Scottish Field Magazine

One of our favourite projects Iron Mill Bay, was featured in the August ’24 issue of Scottish Field Magazine! The project is located in Charlestown, Fife.

“Building a house is something that other people do, or so Lisa and Martin Mulube once thought.”

In 2015 Lisa and Martin Mulube were living and working in London, when they bought a piece of land in Charlestown. ‘I’m from Limekilns and Martin was brought up in Bonnyrigg,’ Lisa explains. ‘We had three children and wanted to move back to Scotland as my parents were still here.’

However, Lisa and Martin were looking
for a house, not a building plot and their search was proving fruitless until Lisa stumbled upon a listing on RightMove. ‘I did a RightMove search, but I didn’t put in any filters other than the area and this plot of land came up,’ Lisa recalls.

“Curiosity got the better of me because I didn’t recognise where it was.”

When the couple viewed the site there was a track rather than a road and the plot was a field that bordered the Firth of Forth. ‘We looked out over the water and thought, “could we do this?” It felt like something that other people do. It was just the push we needed to make the move.’

In 2015 the family moved in with Lisa’s parents in Limekilns and Lisa started Googling architects. Fife Architects in St Monans caught Lisa’s eye and after speaking to architect Lucy Beltrán they arranged for her to visit the plot.

‘I think what cemented our decision to go with Lucy was that when she
left us, she almost immediately sent
us a voice message. It said that she just wanted us to be sure we realised how much of an investment this was going to be as the infrastructure would be as much a part of the project as actually building the house. That honesty was so important when you’re about to undertake something like this.’

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