The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
Some like it hut after Cameron gets cabin fever
Blog: Ex-PM’s family fight over new den
Former prime minister David Cameron says he has a battle on his hands to try to turn a luxury cabin for his Cotswolds’ garden into his writing den.
Mr Cameron, who suddenly stepped away from the cut and thrust of Westminster politics last year, has seen battle lines drawn with his family for control of a hut from Red Sky Shepherds Huts, whose prices start at £16,500 but jump with all the added extras.
His children have firm plans for the hut, he said in a blog for the Oxfordshire-based firm.
He said: “Well, there’s been a bit of a fight already. My children want to use it as a Wendy house, I want to use it as a book-writing room and my son also wants it as an alternative bedroom. So, quite a lot of competition.
“When it first arrived there was great excitement – who was going to spend the first night in it? Who won? That was my son ... I wasn’t going to take him on!”
The Camerons are the proud owners of a 16ft x 7ft hut with arched roof, metal wheels and painted hardwood stable doors to the side and front.
The timber-framed hut has tongue and groove interior pine walls plus five layers to each wall and the floor. There is sheep’s wool insulation. Painted-wood cladding was picked by the Camerons instead of a metal finish.
Mr Cameron and his wife Samantha decided on a hut after admiring one which had been owned by Mr Cameron’s mother-in-law in Scotland.
In the blog, Mr Cameron says: “Samantha makes all the design decisions in this family. As ever she has made a very good choice.”