By M. Caren Connolly
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Limiting the colors to blue and white and employing simple geometric patterns imparts a restful feeling to the master bedroom. The beach theme of the cottage is enhanced by the woven straw headboard, the matching chair, and the hurricane-style reading lamps. In the child’s bedroom, a playful sailboat motif and candy apple red and white color scheme lend a delightful zing. Hands down, the best place to catch the breeze is the sleeping porch. -ft. room captures the serene cottage feeling of drifting off to sleep without a care in the world.
Slim Venetian blinds can instantly cover the northern wall of windows for privacy from the drive and parking spaces. The interior reflects local natural resources, with its finishes of cedar and limestone, birch and iron. The pyramidal ceiling is composed of exposed rafters and cedar decking. The 4-ft. by 4-ft. metal firebox hood suspended from the ceiling’s center point hovers like a lowered ceiling, defining the salon area. The all-in-one glass dining, coffee, and cocktail table sits on a heavily fossilized limestone slab from a Ħ For many people, cottages are a creative haven, not somewhere to get away from it all.
Summer tent plat- the first assembly in 1874 drew a throng of forms served as the foundations for these mini- 12,000 people. At the second “Chautauqua” mal cottages, which had no insulation, kitchens, meeting the next summer, President Ulysses S. or bathrooms. (Communal dining, education, and Grant addressed 60,000 attendees from the bathing facilities were provided for the assem- porch of Rev. ”) Floor plans were prefabricated in Akron, Ohio, and shipped by train replicated, with only gingerbread ornamentation and steamship to the lakefront site.