Unique Living
Here we come together with our owners, guests and friends to bring you inspiring blog posts to ensure that you can ‘Live Unique’ all year round, long before and after your own Unique Homestays experiences.
Owner Chronicles
Tales from a treehouse
We speak with Jessica and Jason Green about their award-winning home, Verte, learning more about their aesthetic, inspiration, and favourite ways to pass the time together.
More by Hannah
Guest Bloggers
Designer insider: Seamus Shanks
This month, we´re celebrating our architectural masterpieces and masterminds. Here, architect and owner of properties Elemental and Usonia, Seamus Shanks, welcomes us into his world.
Owner Chronicles
Into the woods
What better summer house than this - a secret woodland hideaway near Cornwall’s glorious Helford estuary. Here, we speak with the proud owners lucky enough to call it home.
Travellers' Tales
Musings from The Marlings
In a best-of-both-worlds escape to The Cotswolds, childlike nostalgia and sophisticated adulting come in equal measure.
Owner Chronicles
Celestial living in the Welsh mountains
Divine timing came into play when owner Ceri and her husband were seeking a mountain hideaway in the Beacons. Here, we hear the magical story of their celestial Welsh home.
Interiors
Britain´s best cabins to rent
Following The Cable Hut´s recent cameo on Channel 4´s Best British Beach Huts, we shine a spotlight on some of our favourite cabins to rent in the UK, from Kent to the Pembs.
Guest Bloggers
Adventures in the Beacons
This month, in celebration of Britain´s finest peaks, we head to Bannau Brycheiniog (the Brecon Beacons) to understand how action-packed escapes are a must for all that venture here.
Lifestyle
Channel 4’s Extraordinary Escapes
Sandi Toksvig returns with a star-studded line-up of celebrity friends to showcase the very best homes across Britain and Ireland, with a few Unique Homestays visited en route.
Owner Chronicles
Family farmhouse to maximalist manor: Five decades at Gulliver’s Hall
Speaking to property owners Martin and Kate, in our latest chronicle we hear all about what it’s been like calling the grand and glamorous Gulliver’s Hall home for the past 56 years.
Fare
The Cornwall food guide: 10 of the best places to eat
From Michelin-starred fine dining to farm-to-fork fare, Cornwall has become renowned far-and-wide for its flourishing food scene. Here is our pick of the county´s best foodie spots.
Interiors
Unique Homestays x TOAST
Unique Homestays joins forces with TOAST on an interior collaboration at Cornish engine house turned luxury homestay, The Stack.
Owner Chronicles
The culture club
In our latest chronicle, we speak with property owner Monty Whitebloom about how his eccentric Cornish home acts as a retrospective of the colourful life he has lived.
Lifestyle
Island makers: Harris Tweed
This month, we´re spotlighting our incredible isles and those lucky enough to call them home. Here, we speak with a well-known member of the Harris Tweed weaving family, Catherine Campbell, about the material´s iconic journey from its early island days to global acclaim.
Owner Chronicles
A life of new heights on a quiet Cornish cliffside
Ukiyo (meaning “floating world” in Japanese) denotes the concept of living in the moment. In our latest owner chronicle, we speak with property owner Simon about how his modernist cliffside hideaway embodies its namesake.
Owner Chronicles
A fairytale of their own: Once upon a time at Charlotte’s Folly
In a land far away, amidst the glorious green acres of the Bradford Estates in Shropshire, resides the prettiest-in-pink cottage you ever did see. In our latest chronicle, its owner tells us just what life is like living in a fairytale of their own.
Owner Chronicles
From new build to ocean oasis; a life on the wild Cornish coast
In our latest owner chronicle, we head down to Cornwall’s charming coastal village of Gwithian to speak with owner, Melanie, about her modern, chic beach pad; Senara. Expect Cornish magic and endless views over Godrevy and St Ives.
Travellers' Tales
Birthday celebrations at glorious Gwendolyn
Having your birthday fall in January can feel like a disadvantage, what with the rest of the world mourning the festivities. But when a sepia-hued thatch overlooking the sea comes calling, all January blues are blown out the window.
