From Issue Ten of Hidden Scotland Magazine

Discover Borradill with owner and interior designer Claire Mookerjee

Claire Mookerjee’s cabin retreat, Borradill.

Printed in Issue Ten of Hidden Scotland Magazine, Spring and Summer 2025.

Claire Mookerjee spent years working in masterplanning and interior design, and a stint living in Copenhagen got her hooked on Scandinavian cabin culture: the wild swimming, the foraging, the way good design makes a remote holiday feel inviting. Borradill is what happened when she brought that thinking back to the Scottish west coast.

It sits on 25 acres of woodland above Loch Sunart, on the Ardnamurchan peninsula. Two timber cabins, the House and the Cottage, with views across to the Isle of Carna and not another building in sight. Claire and her family had been visiting this stretch of coast for years before they took the place on. We spoke to her about the design, the challenges of building somewhere this remote, and why she thinks Ardnamurchan is where the Highlands becomes the Hebrides.