These before and after pictures show the drawing room at Marchmont House in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders – winners of this years Historic Houses/Sotheby’s restoration award.
In what is clearly a labour of love the house has been converted by owners Marchmont Farms Ltd. from a nursing home into a sumptuous family home available for lettings and functions. Fire doors and green emergency exit signs were thrown out and replaced with an art collection, Georgian mirrors and paintings appropriate to a Palladian house built around 1750. The five year restoration of one of the finest interiors in Scotland set out to create a splendid but comfortable home with 21st century comforts and preserved historically significant features such as the magnificent plasterwork by Thomas Clayton. Marchmont is located about 40 miles south from Edinburgh.