The New Cottage Home

Jim tolpin celebrates the diversity and charm of 30 sample cottages from a pacific northwest cottage modeled after a french hunting lodge to a salvage yard vernacular cottage built with junkyard materials.

The new cottage home. New cottage homes llc is a door county northeast wisconsin and upper michigan residential design and building company that specializes in unique high quality cottage homes at affordable prices. The new cottage home taps into today s move toward lifestyle simplicity and the idea that living space should be rich in details conservative of resources and no larger than necessary. Cedar a newly built house on little traverse lake replaces a trailer home known as the tin house that once sat on the property.

Cottages are the quintessential american home but even this ever popular house type has room for innovation. With over thirty five years of experience we can provide you with pre designed or custom built homes that capture your wishes and dreams. The new cottage home taps into today s move toward lifestyle simplicity and the idea that living space should be rich in details conservative of resources and no larger than necessary.

In the new cottage katie hutchison outlines ten key design strategies that characterize captivating cottages and then demonstrates how this classic home type can be updated for the needs of modern living balancing transience and durability togetherness and solitude the high tech and the homespun. Ten design strategies are eloquently supported by 25 inspiring projects that bring architect katie hutchison s accessible and informative design insight to life. The new home is sided with unpainted corrugated steel as an.