Tiny Home Borders

Two cabins, and a lochan each

There are two Tiny Homes on the hill above Bonchester Bridge, on separate sites, so whichever you book you are not looking at the other one. Both are converted bale trailers finished in Nordic style, with a mezzanine double, a log burner, a small but properly equipped kitchen and a deck.

The deck is where the design earns its keep. There is a wood-fired hot tub with the Border hills in front of it, and Greta, a Swedish wood-fired cooker that does barbecue and pizza, so dinner and the bath both run on the same woodpile.

Each cabin has its own lochan with two paddleboards, which is the part people do not quite believe until they arrive: a private stretch of water for swimming or floating about on, with nobody else on it.

The power is solar, with 240v sockets for the things that need them. It is off grid in the sense that matters and not in the sense that means a chemical toilet and a head torch.

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Features

Location

Where it puts you

Ruberslaw is the hill the cabins sit on, a 424 metre volcanic plug above Denholm with a view from the top that takes in most of the Scottish Borders and a fair slice of Northumberland. It is a short, steep, worthwhile walk straight from the door.

Hawick is fifteen minutes for shops and the knitwear mills, Jedburgh and its abbey twenty, and Kelso and Melrose within forty. The Borders coast at St Abbs and Eyemouth is about an hour east. This is also good cycling country, quiet roads and long climbs, and the Borders cycling routes run through the glens either side of here.