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Never was a building more appropriately named than Greg Stevenson’s ‘Caban Cariad’ at Cenarth. The name means ‘Love Shack’, and this log cabin retreat, imported from Sweden in 1973 just oozes grooviness. Greg has refurbished it with genuine designer pieces from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as few modern classics.

 

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owner: Greg Stevenson
location: Cenarth
style: Groovy 70s kitsch
best feature: The Roy Lichtenstein-style cartoons

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“The whole idea”, smiles Greg, “was to make the kind of interior that Austin Powers could walk into and shout ‘Groovy Baby!’. I think we’ve succeeded!”

The tomato-red carpet was a special order, and two of the paintings were commissioned to complement the loveshack theme, “I’ve always loved the work of Roy Lichtenstein” admits Greg, “but I didn’t just want a copy. So I chose my favourite paintings and had them re-painted with Welsh language speech bubbles – and we even did them in Carmarthenshire dialect. I hope Roy would be proud!”.

Greg is so pleased with his weekend retreat that he has started letting it to honeymooners and those looking to re-kindle that groovy kind of love (to book it for your own romantic break, visit www.cabancariad.com). And Greg isn’t the only one who finds cabins the most romantic of places - presenter Nia Parry just got engaged in a cabin.

“My boyfriend Aled proposed to me in a hut at the bottom of the garden while both our families were in the house on Christmas Day! It wasn’t the most obvious location, but that hut will always be the most romantic place in the world to me!”

 

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