He whare pikitia tōna, he Aga e waru ngā tatau, he tuanui hiako, he kanohi koura, he ahi e tuwhera ana, me ngā mata pouaka whakaata pakaru i ngā pakitara. Ka toro atu ā mātou kaituhi ki te tangata nunui kanapa i ngā takutai ataahua o te roto o Awe.
He ahiahi paki i te tahataha ataahua o Loch Awe, i te hohonutanga o ngā Whenua Teitei o Kōtirana, ā, i kanapa tetahi mea i muri i ngā rākau. I te taha o te huarahi paru piko, i tua atu i ngā eka o ngā paina matomato, ka tae mātou ki tētahi wāhi wātea, kei reira ngā tautau o ngā puranga hina kua whakairohia e ara ake ana i te whenua, pērā i ngā pari toka, e kanapa ana i te māramatanga me ō rātou taha taratara, me te mea he mea whakairo mai i tētahi kohuke tioata.
"Kua kapi katoa i ngā mata pouaka whakaata pakaru," te kī a Merrikel, te kaihoahoa o tētahi o ngā whare rangatira tino rerekē i hangaia ki Argyll mai i te tau 1600. "I whakaaro mātou ki te whakamahi i ngā pepa papa kōwhai hei hanga i te whare kia rite ki tētahi rangatira whenua e mau ana i te kākahu tweed e tū ana i runga i te puke. Engari kātahi ka kitea e mātou te nui o te kino o tā mātou kiritaki ki te pouaka whakaata, nō reira i tino pai tēnei rauemi ki a ia."
Mai i tawhiti, he rite ki te kohatu iti, ki a Harlem rānei, te ingoa o konei. Engari i a koe e whakatata atu ana ki tēnei mea hina matotoru, ka kapi ōna pakitara i ngā poraka karāhe matotoru i hangarua mai i ngā mata ngongo hihi katote tawhito. Te āhua nei i keria mai i tētahi paparanga whenua para-hiko o muri mai, he putunga utu nui nō te wā Anthropocene.
Ko tētahi tēnei o ngā āhuatanga whakamīharo o te whare 650-mita tapawhā, i hangaia hei kōrero mō ngā kiritaki a David rāua ko Margaret, e whakahaere ana i tētahi whānau tokoono ngā tamariki me ngā mokopuna tokoono. "He āhua rangatira te whai whare pēnei te rahi," te kī a David, he kaitohutohu pūtea, nāna i whakaatu mai ki ahau e whitu ngā rūma moe motuhake, ko tētahi o ēnei i hangaia hei rūma moe mokopuna me ngā moenga papa e waru. "Engari ka whakakīia e mātou i ia wā, i ia wā."
Pērā i te nuinga o ngā whare rangatira, he roa te wā i pau ki te hanga. Ko te tokorua nei, i noho ki Quarier's Village e tata ana ki Glasgow mō ngā tau maha, i hoko i te whenua 40 heketea (100 eka) i te tau 2007 mō te £250,000 i muri i tana kitenga i runga i tētahi tāpiringa whenua i roto i tētahi nūpepa ā-rohe. He whenua tawhito tēnei nō te Komihana Ngāherehere me te whakaaetanga ki te hanga whare iti. "I haere mai rātou ki ahau me tētahi pikitia o tētahi whare rangatira," te kī a Kerr. "I hiahia rātou ki tētahi whare 12,000-putu tapawhā me tētahi rūma nui mō te pāti me tētahi wāhi mō tētahi rākau Kirihimete 18-putu te teitei. Me ōrite te āhua."
Ehara i te mea ko te wāhi mahi a Kerr, ko Denizen Works, te wāhi tuatahi e rapua ana e koe mō te whare rangatira hou. Engari i tūtohutia ia e ōna hoa tokorua, i runga i tētahi whare hou i hoahoatia e ia mō ōna mātua i te moutere o Tire i roto i ngā Hebrides. I toa i te tohu Grand Designs Home of the Year i te tau 2014 tētahi raupapa rūma whakaruruhau i hangaia i runga i ngā ururua o tētahi pāmu. "I tīmata mātou mā te kōrero mō te hītori o te hoahoanga Kōtimana," te kī a Kerr, "mai i ngā poroporo o te Wā Rino [ngā whare porowhita kōhatu maroke] me ngā pourewa tiaki ki a Baron Pyle rāua ko Charles Rennie Mackintosh. E waru tau i muri mai ka riro i a rātou te whare tino koretake, te haurua o te rahi, kāore he rūma raro."
He taenga ohorere tēnei, engari e whakaatu ana te whare i te wairua maunga pakari e rite ana ki te wāhi. E tū ana i runga i te roto me te tūnga tiaki pakari, pērā i te pā kaha, me te mea kei te rite ki te pana i tētahi iwi tahae. Mai i te hauauru, ka kitea te haruru o te pourewa, i roto i te āhua o tētahi pourewa kaha 10-mita (he rerekē ki te whakaaro noa, he whare pikitia kei runga), me te maha atu anō hoki i roto i ngā kapiti matapihi me ngā kōhao hohonu. He maha ngā tohu o te whare rangatira i runga i ngā pakitara.
Ko te wāhanga o roto o te tapahi, he mea tapahi tika ki te maripi, e whakaatuhia ana e ngā wahi karāhe iti ake, me te mea e whakaatu ana i te mea ngohengohe o roto. Ahakoa i hangaia mai i tētahi anga rakau kua oti te hanga, kātahi ka takai ki ngā poraka mura, e whakaahua ana a Kerr i te āhua he "whakairo mai i tētahi poraka totoka", e whakahua ana i te tohunga toi Basque a Eduardo Chillida, nāna ngā whakairo mapere poraka, he wāhanga whakairo, i whakaaweawe. Ki te tirohia mai i te tonga, he whare iti te whare e tū ana ki te whenua, me ngā rūma moe e tata ana ki te taha matau, kei reira ngā moenga wiwi, ngā roto iti rānei hei tātari i te wai para mai i ngā tāke paru.
Kei te tū te whare i tōna taha, me te mea kāore e kitea, engari kei te miharo tonu ētahi. I te wā i whakaputaina tuatahitia ai tana whakaahua ki ngā pāpāho o te rohe, kāore i āwangawanga ngā kaipānui. "He āhua kuware. He pōhēhē, he mangere hoki," te tuhituhi a tētahi o rātou. "He rite katoa ki te Taiepa o te Moana Ataratiki i te tau 1944," te kī a tētahi atu. "E tautoko ana ahau i te hoahoanga hou," te tuhituhi a tētahi o rātou i runga i tētahi rōpū Facebook o te rohe, "engari he āhua rite ki tētahi mea i hangaia e taku tamaiti i roto i te Minecraft."
Kāore a Cole i pūmau. "I puta he tautohetohe hauora, he mea pai tēnā," tana kī, me te tāpiri atu i puta he urupare ōrite ki te whare o Tyree i te tīmatanga. E whakaae ana a David: "Kāore mātou i hoahoa hei miharo i ētahi atu. Koinei tā mātou i hiahia ai."
He tino ahurei tō rāua reka, e whakaaturia ana i roto. Haunga te mauahara ki te pouaka whakaata, i whakarihariha anō te tokorua ki te kīhini tino rite. I roto i te kīhini matua, kāore he mea engari ko tētahi Aga nui e waru ngā tatau e tū ana i runga i ngā pakitara maitai kore waikura kua orohia, he papa kaute, me tētahi kāpata kai hiriwa. Ko ngā wāhanga mahi - he totohu, he horoi rihi, he papa taha - kei roto i tētahi kīhini iti i te taha kotahi, ā, kei roto katoa i te rūma mahi i tērā taha o te whare he pouaka whakamātao me te pouaka tio. I te iti rawa, he pai te miraka mō tētahi kapu kawhe hei tatau i ngā hikoinga.
Kei waenganui o te whare he whare nui kei waenganui, tata ki te ono mita te teitei. He wāhi whakaari tēnei, kua kapi katoa ōna pakitara i ngā matapihi āhua koretake e whakaatu ana i ngā tirohanga mai i te papa i runga ake nei, tae atu ki tētahi tuhinga iti te rahi o tētahi tamaiti. "He pai ki ngā tamariki te oma," te kī a David, me te tāpiri atu ko ngā arawhata e rua o te whare e hanga ana i tētahi momo ara hīkoi porowhita.
Hei whakarāpopototanga, ko te take matua he nui te rūma, he mea hei whakanoho i te rākau Kirihimete nui e tapahia ana i te ngahere i ia tau, ā, e whakamauhia ana ki roto i tētahi awaawa i te papa (ka hipokina wawetia ki tētahi taupoki poka parahi whakapaipai). Ko ngā whakatuwheratanga porowhita ōrite i te tuanui, kua whakakikoruatia ki te rau koura, ka whiti te mārama mahana ki roto i te rūma nui, ko ngā pakitara kua hipokina ki ngā pāreti oneone kua konatunatua ki ngā maramara mika koura hei kanapa ngawari.
Kei roto hoki i ngā papa raima kua orohia ngā maramara whakaata ririki, e kawe mai ana i te kanapa tioata o ngā pakitara o waho ki roto, ahakoa i ngā rā kapua. He whakataki kanapa ki te rūma tino kanapa kāore anō kia whakapaipaihia: he wāhi tapu wīski, he pae inu kua whakakikoruatia katoatia ki te parahi kua orohia. "Ko Rosebank taku tino pai," te kī a David, e pā ana ki te whare hanga waina kotahi whenua papaku i kati i te tau 1993 (ahakoa ka tuwhera anō i te tau e tū mai nei). "Ko te mea e pārekareka ana ki ahau ko ia pounamu e inumia ana e au, kotahi te pounamu iti iho i te ao."
Ko te reka o te tokorua nei ka horapa ki ngā taonga o roto. Ko ētahi o ēnei rūma he mea hanga motuhake i runga i ngā mahi toi i tonoa e te Southern Guild, he taiwhanga hoahoa iti kei Cape Town, Āwherika ki te Tonga. Hei tauira, ko te rūma kai teitei he oko-whakairoiro me te tēpu maitai pango e whā mita te roa e titiro atu ana ki te roto. Ka whakamāramahia e te rama kanapa pango me te hina whakamiharo me ngā tītaha roa ka taea te neke, he rite ki ngā hoari, ki ngā haona rānei kua whiti, ka kitea i roto i ngā whare o te whare rangatira.
Waihoki, kua hangaia te rūma noho ki tētahi sofa hiako nui āhua-L e anga atu ana ki tētahi kanga ahi nui tuwhera, ehara i te pouaka whakaata, engari ki tētahi kanga ahi e whā i roto i te whare. Kei waho tētahi atu kanga ahi, e hanga ana i tētahi kokonga whakamarie i te papa o raro, he wāhi marumaru kia taea ai e koe te whakamahana i a koe e mātakitaki ana i te rangi "maroke" mai i te roto.
Kei te mau tonu te kaupapa parahi kanapa i roto i ngā kaukau, tae atu ki tētahi me ngā kaukau e rua e tata ana – he mea aroha engari ko te nuinga e pai ana ki ngā mokopuna e pai ana ki te tākaro mā te mātakitaki i ō rātou whakaata i runga i te tuanui parahi whakaata. He nui ake te āhua o te kōrero whaiaro i roto i ngā kokonga nohoanga iti puta noa i te whare, he mea hipoki ki te hiako papura mai i te whare hanga kiri o Muirhead (he kaiwhakarato hiako ki te Whare Ariki me Concord).
Tae noa te kiri ki te tuanui o te whare pukapuka, kei reira ngā pukapuka kei roto ko te pukapuka a Donald Trump, ko How to Get Rich me te pukapuka a Winnie the Pooh's Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, i tapaina ki te ingoa o te whenua. Engari kāore i rite te āhua o te katoa. I te pēhitanga o te tuara o te pukapuka, i roto i tētahi wā ohorere o te mahi whakakatakata a Scooby-Doo, ka huri te whata pukapuka katoa, ka kitea he kāpata e huna ana i muri.
I tētahi tikanga, koinei te whakarapopototanga o te kaupapa katoa: he whakaata hōhonu te whare i te kiritaki, e hanga ana i te taumaha o ngā teitei i waho, e huna ana hoki i te ngahau whakatoi, te whakarihariha me te whanoke i roto. Kaua e ngata i a koe e haere ana ki te pouaka whakamātao.