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1920s cottage bungalow sat on a narrow straight street with many older homes, all of which meeting the street with a similar dignified approach. This house was the smallest of them all, built in 1922 as a weekend cottage, near the old East Falls Church rail station which provided direct access to Washington
this cottage bungalow. Though the owners fell in love with the charm of the original house, their growing family presented an architectural dilemma: how do you significantly expand a charming little 1920’s Craftsman style house that you love without totally losing the integrity that made it so perfect
than this cottage bungalow. Most of the neighborhood houses had been significantly renovated or expanded. Growing this one-story house would certainly not adversely affect the architectural character of the neighborhood. Given that, the house needed to maintain a diminutive scale in order to appear friendly
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designed the cottage, I had drawn our plans carefully and they called for six and eight-foot side doors. I had seen the door design on a cottage by an American vacation homeowner. …The top half of this wide door was pulled up by ropes and blocks (pulleys) or simply pushed up and held there by sticks on either
of the cottage they rent to visitors. However, as they lived there, it evolved. They added the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen and beautiful seaside patios. Today, aside from being impeccably kept, it is exactly the same as when it was first built. The galvanized pipes still hold up much of the roof
1940s cottage that was saved during a renovation was the metal roof.
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