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Buy Lower/Sell Higher www.MoreForMyHouse.com Understand the country cottage

Bill Rinehart, Realtor®/Salesperson Coldwell Banker The Real Estate Centre, Brokerage Local 705.436.5111 Toll-free 1.877.436-5111

What is a Country Cottage? There are physical features common to most people's minds-eye concept of a country cottage. For most people though, the country cottage is a state of mind rather than something that they can describe physically. I read once that adults find contentment by recreating the spaces where they found happiness as children. For many people, the country cottage is a recreation of the places they enjoyed visiting as children; a crafter's cottage where an old uncle had a workshop, or going to visit an old aunt or granny out in the country. For others, it is more the creation of their childhood imagination; a Hansel and Grettel or Grimms Fairy Tale world that captured their imagination during bedtime stories. The country cottage is not the same as a waterfront cottage, a distinction that makes it more affordable for most people. For most people, the features of the country cottage are overshadowed by the lot it sits on. The country cottage is secluded either by distance or by the judicious use of trees and shrubs. The neighbours are there if you need them or feel like socializing, but the country cottage yard is the antithesis of the postage-stamp goldfish-bowl backyards that most city dwellers know and hate. The cottager's savour a quiet morning coffee in the dewy back garden before work, and relaxed drinks and de-stressing in the gentle breeze, fluttering butterflies and chirping birds in the late afternoon while dinner is cooking. It's all about communing with nature, not about listening to the neighbours noisy kids or staring at their wrecked cars in the backyard. The inside of the country cottage is a time machine. The focus inside the country cottage is on character and hedonism. Low ceilings, trim and moldings, bead-board, wainscotting, stone fireplaces, french doors, mullioned windows, plank floors, front porches or verandas, windowed corners with benched booths. The features are as endless as a designer's imagination. When most of the cottages in the pictures to the left were built, they most likely outdoor toilets. Cottage owners today are far more discriminating. Their ideals don't stop in the garden. When they walk back in the back door, they expect to enjoy not only it's character, but also the features of a fully modern functioning home.

Bill Rinehart

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