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Cottage
| Marin County
This small cottage from the 1920’s could barely be enlarged due to zoning regulations. The cottage was long on charm but short on practicality and desperately in need of updating. A family with 2 young girls asked us to reorganize the interior spaces for a family lifestyle with three bedrooms and two baths and to “connect” the cottage to the very generous rear yard.
The new plan moves the front entry from the
original position in the middle of the house to one side. This allowed
for a new high ceilinged center section to be opened up for the
living spaces, and, in turn, to the front and rear yards. The master
suite flanks one side of the big volume and the two girls
bedrooms are symmetrically located on the other side. The bedroom
wings maintain the original interior wood paneling.
Simple, but appropriate furnishings lend a timeless quality to this
modest first home.
Photography by Matthew Millman
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