The Garden House is a beautiful modernist home with a feature pond and decking.
It will feature on the popular BBC Scotland television show on Wednesday.
The house is owned by Helen and Ben Gray, who live there with their 15-year old son Zach and three-year old spaniel Soda.
The site originally belonged to a large neighbouring house on the other side of the street. “It had been in that family for years,” Helen explains. “Numerous developers had approached them wanting to put lots of houses on the site but they turned them down. We were lucky that they liked our idea of building a single family home for us to live in.”
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Lucy, the Human Chimp -Channel 4, Monday, 9pm
In 1966, two psychology professors from the University of Oklahoma embarked upon a radical nature vs nurture experiment. They decided to raise Lucy, a female chimpanzee, as if she were human. But by the time she was 11, Lucy had grown too large and unpredictable to continue living with her surrogate parents. So they were forced to make a difficult decision: Lucy was shipped off to an African nature reserve in the company of a young student called Janis Carter. Via archive material, dramatic reconstructions and a revealing interview with Carter herself, the film makes a powerful statement about the relationship between humans and animals.
BBC Scotland/iPlayer WEEK two of the competition to find Scotland’s nicest abode and “they” have arrived on the scene. “They” are the enemy of pristine white walls. “They”, and their pals, like nothing better than to clutter up the place disturbing karate-chopped cushions and perfectly placed throws. “They” care nothing about showroom tidy kitchens. “They”, you’ve guessed it, are weans. Last week’s show, set in the Borders, was a child-free zone. On this trip to the Hebrides there were three small people. Hardly a mob, but this is how ant invasions start. First stop for judges Anna Campbell Jones, Michael Angus, and Kate Spiers, was a renovated croft house on Skye. Bealach Bothy in Staffin was home to Jo, Allan, and their two children, Lexi and Lachlan.
Couple s quirky Scots house in running to be Home of the Year divides viewers over odd object in kitchen
Spottes Mill, in Castle Douglas, is an urban rebuild of a former grain store with a stunning stone exterior.
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(SPOILER ALERT) MICHAEL loves a well located mirror, Anna is a fan of “stuff”, and Kate becomes delightfully girly around a chair suspended from the ceiling. Scotland’s Home of the Year returned last night, with judges Michael Angus, Anna Campbell-Jones, and Kate Spiers back as the three amigos with a pash for Amtico, big windaes, and that all important but hard to define “good taste”. First stop in the third series was the Borders. Before we started, the judges set out what they were looking for. Man in black Michael, architect/lecturer/the world’s worst Johnny Cash impersonator, said he wanted a home that was “exceptional in its ability to embrace, to entertain, and to exalt”.