GORSE CABIN, SCOTTISH BORDERS

Lotte Kravitz was working as an art technician in Edinburgh when the pandemic hit and she suddenly found herself with “a scarily clear diary”. The silver lining, she says, was the chance to create the cabin she had always wanted to build. She moved out to the Scottish Borders, where, with the help of two friends, she designed and built Gorse Cabin: a pared-down, Scandi-blonde eco hut with views over the rewilded 18-acre estate where she grew up.

“We did everything from casting the foundations, hauling wheelbarrows of wet cement down the hill, to putting together the frame, roofing, cladding, insulating, and laying floorboards,” says Lotte. “We finished by planting a native hedgerow to connect the forest behind us to our land, and create a corridor for wee creatures.” Gorse Cabin, sleeps two, from £145 a night, with Kip Hideaways (kiphideaways.com/hideaways/ gorse-cabin-scotland)