If you own a cottage that is only set up for summer, have you thought about redesigning it for year-round? A couple in Cape Cod did just that, and they are thrilled with the results. The place wasn't perfect for them when they found it, but they did a renovation to make it their own! "All of the walls in the kitchen and the living and dining spaces were removed to create a wide-open plan, knocking out that awkward bathroom in the dining room as well as a bedroom. The new layout maintains the original footprint of roughly 1,000 square feet. Two wings flank the living area, each containing a bedroom-and-bathroom suite," said the Boston Globe.
To say that Annika Richter’s home in Dennis was in rough shape when she first saw it would be an understatement. The house, built in the 1930s, had been a summer cottage for decades. The layout was choppy, a bathroom jutted into the dining room, a stench clung to the dingy wall-to-wall carpet, and the tiny kitchen had never been renovated. Yet Richter immediately knew the house was The One. She and her husband, Walter, had lived in Provincetown for years before deciding to rent a home on the mid-Cape to ease his commute to Boston. “We discovered that we...
If you own a cottage that is only set up for summer, have you thought about redesigning it for year-round? A couple in Cape Cod did just that, and they are thrilled with the results. The place wasn't perfect for them when they found it, but they did a renovation to make it their own! "All of the walls in the kitchen and the living and dining spaces were removed to create a wide-open plan, knocking out that awkward bathroom in the dining room as well as a bedroom. The new layout maintains the original footprint of roughly 1,000 square feet. Two wings flank the living area, each containing a bedroom-and-bathroom suite," said the Boston Globe.