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. βIβm from Limekilns and Martin was brought up in Bonnyrigg,β Lisa explains. βWe had three children and wanted to move back to Scotland as my parents were still here.β
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. βI did a RightMove search, but I didnβt put in any filters other than the area and this plot of land came up,β Lisa recalls.
"Curiosity got the better of me because I didnβt 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. βWe looked out over the water and thought, βcould we do this?β It felt like something that other people do. It was just the push we needed to make the move.β
In 2015 the family moved in with Lisaβs parents in Limekilns and Lisa started Googling architects. Fife Architects in St Monans caught Lisaβs eye and after speaking to architect Lucy BeltrΓ‘n they arranged for her to visit the plot.
βI 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 youβre about to undertake something like this.β
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