The 8 most remote houses, cottages & cabins featured in House & Garden
It can feel, in the day and age of connection, as though the truly remote is gone forever. That the internet and mobile phones have forever dispelled any feeling of true isolation just as handily as plane, the train and the car almost did before them, and that there’s nowhere left to run when busy-ness becomes too loud, and modernity’s tax really begins to bite into your ability to stay calm.
But not so – there are still some corners of the planet which remain out of reach of most, or which at least have escaped the worst heat of attention. Perched on the edges of islands and lochs, sequestered among dark, creaking forests or hammered into the rock high up on wind-bitten mountainsides, these places and the houses, cabins and cottages that have been built on them seem purposely designed as retreats from the world. Their owners and designers are varied in everything except for one mission: to find peace, quiet, space and beauty, and not to have to share it with too many others. And who can blame them?
We plundered the archive for some of the most remote and isolated places we’ve ever featured in House & Garden, from the rugged valleys of Colorado to the salty sea lochs of Scotland.







