DOLPHIN COAST DELIGHTS

You’ll fall hook, line and sinker for coastal home.

MICK and Kim Eason fell hook, line and sinker for their three-storey home in a pretty fishing village on Aberdeenshire’s Dolphin Coast.

The dwelling is in the vibrant community of Gardenstown, known for netting creative types.

Among its resident musicians, artists and crafts folk is songwriter and performer Gavin Sutherland.

Gavin, of Sutherland Brothers & Quiver fame, also lays claim to having penned the Rod Stewart hit Sailing.

And the village was the setting for the 2007 ITV reality show The Baron Of Troup which featured late greats, comedian Mike Reid and Sex Pistols manager Malcolm Mclaren.

But the Easons, who took lecturing posts at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen in 2007, knew they would need vision and flair to transform the former general merchants store and boat shed at 55 Denside into the captivating home it is today.

Kim, 62 – who has now retired as Head of Fashion at the school while Mick, 56, still lecture photography – remembers: “Mick found the house and brought me to view it. I fell in love with it immediately.

“I remember stepping across the threshold and knowing this was the house for us.

“It was a magical and very emotional experience I shall never forget.

“We both wanted to live by the sea and where we lived before in England, we were about as far from the coast as you could possibly get!”

But she admits: “The house was tired and unloved.”

So the couple set about