Sea View House combines contemporary elegance and traditional charm, with stylishly furnished bedrooms and spacious living areas, full of colour and character and fabulous sea views from nearly every room across to Skye and North Uist. Built in 1924, of local Harris stone, Sea View House has been lovingly restored, including hand painted wall murals by a renowned local artist Suzan Visser , artisan woodwork and stunning original artwork from Highlands and Islands artists - some of which may be available for purchase as a memory of your stay. Sea View House is very peaceful and quiet, a wonderful haven in which to relax and restore. The house has good Wi-Fi although it can be patchy in some rooms due to the 100 year old thick stone walls.
Dogs
We are animal lovers and accept one well behaved dog. We politely ask that you respect the house rules with regard to keeping Sea View House lovely for all of our guests, including making sure that no traces of your pet are left behind either inside the house or in the garden. The garden is fenced but not dog proof, and there are loose sheep everywhere, so please keep an eye on your dog at all times.
Kitchen / family room
Sea View House has a large open plan fully equipped kitchen with Siematic kitchen units, 5 burner Smeg gas hob, oven, Bosch dishwasher, double sink, granite counter tops, larder style fridge (with small top of the fridge ice box), full sized washer and tumble drier. The kitchen has high quality crystal wine glasses for red/white/champagne/cocktails, plus a cocktail shaker and measure, together with designer stonewear plates/bowls with crockery from Le Creuset, Sophie Conran and Dartington amongst others. There are plenty of pans, saucepans and mixing bowls, together with a powerful stick blender, set of chefs knives and a number of chopping boards for the cooks on holiday. There is a Le Creuset cafetiere for ground coffee, Magimix Nespresso ‘pod’ coffee machine with integrated milk frother (please bring your own pods) together with teapots, kettle, electric coffee bean grinder (please do not use for nuts or spices as some guests have allergies) and 4 slice toaster.
The open plan social space has a antique French oak dining table and designer chairs, sitting area with Italian leather sofa, Eames chairs & footstools, large smart TV and wood burning stove. A great space for cooking, pre dinner drinks, chatting, watching the waves or otter and sea eagle spotting from the deep window seats.
In between the kitchen and sitting room there is a separate washroom with WC and washbasin.
Sitting room
A separate, and very spacious sitting room, with deep window seats offering wonderful sea views and two oversized velvet sofas providing lots of comfy seating to sink into, and a feature French oak antique ‘castle’ fireplace with wood burning stove. There is a separate study/working area with a round antique mahogany desk, 2 designer ‘tulip’ chairs, small library and board games. Hand made rugs compliment the furniture. Guests have told us that this is a is wonderfully relaxing room in in which to unwind, read a book, play board games or listen to music via the Bluetooth speaker and get away from the TV and the ever present phone/computer screens. The sitting room also has a beautiful hand painted wall mural of local flowers and wildlife, including our famous Highland Coos, Catherine and baby Angus.
This room also contains the open plan hand made wooden staircase leading to the 1st floor master ‘waterlily’ suite.
Bedrooms
Both bedrooms are en-suite. The waterlily suite is on the 1st floor and the machair suite is on the ground floor are on separate sides of the house to ensure privacy (great for couples, but please note if you have small children). All beds have hypoallergenic ‘down feel’ duvets/pillows and both bedrooms have sea views.
Waterlily suite
The master ‘waterlily’ suite on the 1st floor runs the entire width of the house and has an extra long 2.2m Swiss Auping king sized bed with memory foam mattress and super sized pillows, great for taller people. Bedding is hypoallergenic with high thread count Egyptian cotton, velvet bedspread & cushions and thick cotton towels for guests to enjoy. The open plan bathroom has a WC (situated behind the sauna for privacy), double whirlpool bath, infrared 2 person sauna, double marble topped vanity unit and separate walk in power shower. The room has 3 velux windows which offer stunning views across the Sound of Harris. There is a stair gate at the top of the stairs.
Machair suite
The ground floor ‘machair’ bedroom at the rear of the house, has 2 single beds with pocket sprung mattresses, double vanity unit, separate WC and walk in power shower with both a hand held and rainfall shower heads. Bedding is high thread count Egyptian cotton with beautiful wild flower machair inspired quilts. Heavy designer woven linen curtains, blinds and thick cotton towels complete the décor. The room has 2 windows which offer views of the local fields, sheep (sometimes!) and the Sound of Harris.
Outside enjoy Sea View House’s lovely garden and look out for the resident seals and otters and white tailed Sea Eagles flying overhead.
There is roadside parking for 2 cars across from the house, next to the sea.
About us
We love colour, texture, art and design and enjoy staying in places which are different, welcoming and comfortable. We understand that great holidays are as much about the experience as the destination. We hope that you will enjoy, relax and restore, and be stimulated by the house, Harris and the Outer Hebrides, and we look forward to welcoming you now and in the future.
