Rigg Beck Charles Carter, homeowner

摘要

'The hardest part was finding an architect,' says Charles Carter. Five years ago, when he bought his site in the Lake District, complete with a derelict ex-hotel known locally as the Purple House, his concern was neither getting planning permission from the National Park for his new home nor the sloping site. It was finding an architect he thought would design the building that he wanted and would eventually live in. 'I had always thought I would like to build my own house,'he says. 'Before Kevin McCloud and Grand Designs,'he adds.