New buildings designed by architects can
sometimes be described as cold. Whereas a
cabin in the woods that has been in families
for generations, built by grandparents, can be
described as warm. What is it about ‘Cottages’ of the past that creates this architectural
feeling?
The idea of the ‘cottage’ versus the ‘home’
has become conflated; there is no longer a
separation of these two experiences. ‘Cottage’ and ‘home’ have essentially become the
same structure in a different environment as
we build more and more ‘permanent’ ‘cottages’.
The change is that new families are beginning
to downsize. First, there is the tiny house
movement, and then the trend noticed in
Haliburton, of young families renting a ‘home’
near their place of work, but owning a
‘cottage’ outside of the city
