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The New Cottage: Inspiration for America's Favorite Home
The mere thought of "cottage" puts the mind at ease, as a cottage is where life is simple, comforting, and true. Cottages are an informal, often hardy subset of small houses, generally possessing a visceral grab on homeowners' imaginations.

The New Cottage explores how our favorite home is changing to suit lving today. Even in the face of technology's expanding scope and speed, and the resulting nearly ubiquitous reach of social media, today's new cottage appeals to our increasing need to balance transience and durability, togetherness and solitude, the high tech and the home spun.

  • Ten design strategies that characterize captivating cottages are introduced.
  • 25 case study examples showcase today's updated take on the classic cottage, with visual icons throughout to serve as a reminder of which strategies are in use where.
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The New Cottage: Inspiration for America's Favorite Home
The mere thought of "cottage" puts the mind at ease, as a cottage is where life is simple, comforting, and true. Cottages are an informal, often hardy subset of small houses, generally possessing a visceral grab on homeowners' imaginations.

The New Cottage explores how our favorite home is changing to suit lving today. Even in the face of technology's expanding scope and speed, and the resulting nearly ubiquitous reach of social media, today's new cottage appeals to our increasing need to balance transience and durability, togetherness and solitude, the high tech and the home spun.

  • Ten design strategies that characterize captivating cottages are introduced.
  • 25 case study examples showcase today's updated take on the classic cottage, with visual icons throughout to serve as a reminder of which strategies are in use where.
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The New Cottage: Inspiration for America's Favorite Home

The New Cottage: Inspiration for America's Favorite Home

by Katie Hutchison
The New Cottage: Inspiration for America's Favorite Home

The New Cottage: Inspiration for America's Favorite Home

by Katie Hutchison

Overview

The mere thought of "cottage" puts the mind at ease, as a cottage is where life is simple, comforting, and true. Cottages are an informal, often hardy subset of small houses, generally possessing a visceral grab on homeowners' imaginations.

The New Cottage explores how our favorite home is changing to suit lving today. Even in the face of technology's expanding scope and speed, and the resulting nearly ubiquitous reach of social media, today's new cottage appeals to our increasing need to balance transience and durability, togetherness and solitude, the high tech and the home spun.

  • Ten design strategies that characterize captivating cottages are introduced.
  • 25 case study examples showcase today's updated take on the classic cottage, with visual icons throughout to serve as a reminder of which strategies are in use where.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781641550130
Publisher: Taunton Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/13/2018
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,018,806
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Katie Hutchison is an architect with over 23 years of experience in residential design and is author of the best-selling The New Small House, also from The Taunton Press. She's sole proprietor of Katie Hutchison Studio, and provides design commentary to shelter magazines, such as Fine Homebuilding, and design blogs, including her own, House Enthusiast. Hutchison and her husband live in Warren, Rhode Island.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction

Part 1. Strategies for Designing a Cottage

  • Engaged with site
  • Simple massing
  • Human scale
  • Sheltering roof
  • Economy of means
  • Honest materials
  • Informality
  • Crafted details
  • Opposite complements
  • Wabi sabi

Part 2. The Houses

  • In community
  • By water
  • In the wilderness
  • Experimental
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