Though not as upside-down as Tuesday's post from ATSF, the original owners of this house in the Morningside suburb of Edinburgh called their home the Upside-Down House &mdash the architects, James Morris and Robert Steedman, put the sleeping areas in a nearly windowless downstairs and kept the light-filled areas on the second floor for communal living space...
The owner has a modern chair collection displayed throughout the house. The large 4-poster bed pictured above is made from an old church organ! For the story of the 42nd of 100 Important Modern Buildings in Scotland, see A Scottish House, Traditional Yet Modern and the slideshow.
Pics: Michael Hughes
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I LOVE the living room, but the bedroom has a scary Darth Vader vibe. (And I'm usually a fan of gothic.)
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Am I reading something wrong or is that not a window in the bedroom with light coming through it?
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I love the bed, and think it's the old 30s radio that strangely gives the unpleasant "Dark Vador" feel : proves what a few accessories and objets can do!. Otherwise I like the feel of the place. Was afraid of the mention of no windows, but quite obviously that reads "less window space".
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I believe the quote was "nearly windowless"
LOVE the bed.
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i added the "nearly" after the confusion...
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I like this house...
...but if I owned it I'd have to install great wide glass doors into the end walls of the 2nd floor and turn the flat roofs of the 1st floor into terraces.
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Wow. Two toilets side by side. The French do that ,eh?
kinky!
;-)
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