One might argue with “every cloud has a silver lining” — but for the woman at the heart of this film, that’s exactly how it played out.
This New Town house has nine levels, a bath hidden behind stone panels, a garden modelled on Venice and Japan, and shutters that close like an igloo in winter. The owner built it to last — and to keep changing.
A student from Shetland on colour, plants, found objects, and turning a rented tenement flat into a place that actually feels like home.
To make this film, we travelled from Edinburgh to Aberdeen, the granite-and-oil city by the North Sea.