Inside The Great British Bake Off Alum James Morton’s Sustainable Scottish Kitchen Extension
Most doctors don’t have time to make dinner, let alone compete on The Great British Bake Off and publish cookbooks, but James Morton somehow does it all.
On top of these dual careers, he and his wife Fenella Barlow-Pay (who’s also a doctor!) DIY-ed much of their historic Glasgow home renovation. The couple worked with sustainability-focused architecture firm Loader Monteith to take the Edwardian terrace house off gas, build an energy-efficient kitchen/dining/playroom extension, and secure the neighborhood’s first-ever approval for roof solar panels—but they tackled a lot of the labor themselves. “Doing much of the work ourselves was hard and at times difficult to manage with two full-time jobs and two small children, but it was also rewarding, and we’ve picked up lots of new skills along the way,” says Fenella.
Let’s take a look at this baker’s heart of the home: the kitchen.
Photography by Jim Stephenson.
