Everyone entering this property is immediately impressed by its setting and views, its timber structure, fascinating internal architecture and its unique ergonomic layout, designed with relaxation and holidays in mind. Completely built using the natural materials of stone, timber and slate to blend in with its surrounding pastoral setting and using reclaimed pitch pine timbers from a Victorian bonded warehouse, Tomghuibhais has been carefully sculpted into a west facing hillside to take advantage of stunning mountain views up the Tay Valley to Ben Lawers and Schiehallion. This architect designed detached holiday home enjoys a country lane setting of absolute peace, privacy and seclusion yet is within walking distance through the Birks of Aberfeldy, a woodland glade of significant beauty, to the heart of the charming and delightful Highland market town of Aberfeldy.

Popular with honeymoon couples and ideal for romantic breaks, Tomghuibhais has been tastefully decorated with Skopos co-ordinating designer fabrics and furnished to a very high standard with country pine furniture. The entrance hall leads to a built in conservatory then onto a spacious split level living area with a real log fire  (wood burning stove) and wool rugs on polished natural wood floors. Two sets of French doors provide access to a large sun deck built out over a terraced landscaped garden.

Steps lead up one metre from the lounge area to the elevated dining area and a fully fitted and integrated, well-equipped antique pine kitchen area, (including fridge, dishwasher, electric oven, ceramic hob and microwave) with a utility room with a freezer and washer/drier and payphone. Adjacent to the front door there is a cloakroom/WC and the entire entrance area, conservatory, kitchen and dining area has a ceramic tiled floor.

An ornamental cast iron Victorian spiral staircase (from a former bleach works in Perth) leads from the lounge and dining area to a small snug sitting room with a small wood burning stove and elevated panoramic views of the valley. This room has a widescreen TV/DVD player (with DVD library) and has an extensive selection of games and books. It also has a bed-settee which enables it to be converted to provide a sixth guest bedroom (a room loved by teenagers who make it heir own den while on holiday).

Adjacent to the snug is a single bedroom with wardrobe and a fairy-tale style casement widow that looks out over the lounge and dining area. The bedrooms wing of the house is to the left as you enter the house and both bedrooms here have full height, floor to ceiling windows with open views across the garden to the hills beyond. This area consists of a double bedroom with fitted wardrobe and pine furniture and with magnificent views. This room has a fully tiled en-suite shower room/WC. Further along there is a very large master bedroom with a king size bed and a marble tiled, rose coloured en-suite bathroom with a shower cubicle, a bidet, a large sunken cloverleaf whirlpool spa bath and a room with a Finnish sauna. Waking in this room with the birds singing and nature’s bounty unfolding before your eyes as you open the curtains is an unforgettable experience.

There is full gas central heating and extra thick double at Tomghuibhais with gas electricity by meter reading (at normal domestic tariffs) and logs for the wood burning stoves, again at the actual cost of the fuel provided for use. Private secure parking, TVs and DVD (with library), a well stocked book library, CD player, payphone, iron and ironing board, cot, highchair, and garden with furniture and barbecue. Baby-sitting can be by arranged; duvets with linen and ample towels for all are provided at no extra charge and one well behaved pet allowed (two may be allowed after discussion with owner). There is a country house hotel and restaurant 150 yards away.

Nature trails lead from the doorstep through natural woodland area known as the Birks of Aberfeldy, made famous by Scotland national poet Robert Burns. Here “the hoary cliffs are crown'd wi' flowers and the foaming stream deep-roaring fa's, o'erhung wi' fragrant spreading shaws. While o'er their heads the hazels hing, the little birdies blythely sing, or lightly flit on wanton wing,”.

Or to those less poetically inclined or who find that difficult to understand, the winding path skirts a series of cascading waterfalls and richly vegetated cliffs to a bridge spanning the burn at the top, beneath which it leaps down 200 feet into a black chasm and far below pursues its course through foaming currents and long dark pools. Above these Falls of Moness, in open sunlit upland a country landscape unfolds to the discerning traveller where there are immeasurable crimson heather moors and pine forest which resonate to the sound of the cry of the hawk, grouse, curlews and lapwing and whose profound peace and tranquillity is a benison to the weary brainworker or city dweller. The weight lifting from your shoulders is palpable and engenders a wondrous feeling of calmness and peace with oneself and the world.

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