The Tingdene Country Lodge is a holiday home with a clear country character and timeless elegance, with a vaulted ceiling and luxury everywhere you look.

With its log-cabin-styling, a front that’s almost totally windows, and a cosily-hidden side entrance under an apex porch, the Country Lodge lives up to its name at a mere first glance. You can picture this home-from-home nestling in trees; your secluded, quiet retreat from the necessitous work-hub of live…

“You can picture this home-from-home nestling in trees; your secluded, quiet retreat from the necessitous work-hub of life…”

And inside? This is a spacious, luxurious holiday home, the size of many a bungalow (40 feet long and 20 feet wide) and with a layout that gives you two bedrooms (one double and one twin), a dining area that’s distinctly separate from the lounge, and a spacious U-shaped kitchen.

It’s brimming with luxury and practical features including a wine cooler, an integrated dishwasher, soft close kitchen doors in the oak kitchen and a breakfast bar with four stools – that’s in addition to the dining area. And, as if to underline the country image, this holiday home even has a welly rack holder!

The Country Lodge is a holiday home – but it’s built to residential specification (BS3632) of construction and insulation.

One of the main distinguishing features of the Country Lodge is the vaulted ceiling to the lounge-diner-kitchen area. This creates a wonderfully spacious aspect, enhanced by the window design that occupies almost the whole of the front wall, and by the large rectangular roof window in the kitchen, making this an exceptionally light and bright place in which to enjoy creating holiday meals!

Kitchen

The high-quality light oak cabinetry hides a multitude of cupboards and drawers – you’d never find storage a challenge here.

The polished granite-effect surface is L-shaped. The steel over-hob extractor unit fulfils a stylish, strategic room divider role by marking the edge of the kitchen right up to ceiling level.

The tower-style oven and grill are built into the cabinet suite that forms the rear wall of the kitchen. We love the styling points about this kitchen – especially the metal-shaded, glass bowled, pendant galley light.

Lounge

Classic country cottage – or lodge – styling comes in pretty floral curtains in muted shade of yellows and fawns, and in a white stag’s head on the chimney breast! A log-burner-style heater enhances the cosy-cottage look, too.

The two settees are pleasingly plain and timeless in style, in fawn leather.

Plain cream carpeting distinguishes the lounge from the dining and kitchen areas; the flooring here is attractive wood-effect, adding to the country lodge image theme.

We love the amount of light flooding into the whole lounge-dining area from the entire wall of windows at the front, plus windows at the sides, enabling you to make the most of the views from all angles.

Bedrooms

The main bedroom, with en suite, has an interesting window feature – a strip of three windows high up above the bed head, to add an extra dimension to the daylight that already floods into the room from the ample main windows.

There’s also an unusual window feature in the second, twin-bedded bedroom; a floor-to-ceiling window between the beds.

Both bedrooms have plenty of wardrobe and drawer space. The master bedroom has a walk-in wardrobe.

Bathrooms

High quality rock-effect tiling is a feature of the bathrooms. The main bathroom is spacious, with a bath at one end and a shower above it. The wide shelf is a major bonus – somewhere to put your toiletries and cosmetics. Both bathrooms have large ladder-style heated towel rails.

The ‘boot room’

Just as you step inside the Country Lodge you’ll find a recess designed for boots, shoes and coats – and a small seat in an alcove, perfect for sitting down to unlace your walking boots. It’s a well-designed little area – and it somehow emphasises the country lodge theme.

Our view

Lots of windows create a light and airy feel. The main area is open plan. But what makes the Country Lodge different from many open-plan layouts is the clever positioning of the breakfast bar, forming a natural and subtle divider between the kitchen and the dining area.

We love the ‘cottagey’ curtains and plain furniture styling. It’s a happy combination of traditional and modern; a look that won’t date.

We also love the French doors to both the side and front – think alfresco eating with the comfort of being inside on a summer’s day with the doors open!

Big, chunky chrome heated towel rails and floor-to-ceiling fawn tiles are impressive features of the bathrooms; it’s all luxurious and spacious.

And we think the ‘boot room’ is a brilliant inclusion – so practical and perfectly located as you step inside. It would be easy to enforce a ‘no shoes’ rule in a Country Lodge!