{"id":6856,"date":"2012-12-29T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=6856"},"modified":"2018-12-24T17:14:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T22:14:35","slug":"popular-cottage-house-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/popular-cottage-house-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Popular Cottage House Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/plan\/lattesa-di-vita-1895\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/images\/plans\/EXB\/2091\/dark\/2091r1.jpg\" alt=\"house plans\" width=\"480\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">T<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/plan\/lattesa-di-vita-1895\/\">he L&#8217;Attessa di Vita<\/a> house plan has country charm with plenty of space to entertain. Among its perks are a spacious guest suite, and a welcoming lanai for outdoor entertaining.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the Middle Ages, a cottage usually housed agricultural workers and their friends and families. Back then the term cottage did not just comprise a house, but also a barn and usually a fenced in yard or piece of land enclosed by a gate. \u00a0Today, the word cottage conjures up a different image to each and every person.<\/p>\n<p>A cottage generally means a soft cozy dwelling that typically resides in a rural or semi-rural location. Cottages are usually small structures with limited square footage and limited interior space. There are a variety of cottage styles, including English, French, German, American and Victorian, but there are a few characteristics that unify cottage houses.<\/p>\n<p>Cottages are meant to be small, inexpensive buildings and their construction reflects such. Most cottages are one-story buildings with a hipped roof. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/shaping-your-new-roof.asp\">Gabled roofs<\/a> are also common in cottages. Cottage <strong>house plans<\/strong> also tend to overlap with ranch and country <i>house plans<\/i>. These homes are extremely well suited for a year-round dwelling, an art or writing studio or a quaint living space for aging parents.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/cottage-house-plans\/\">cottage <u>house plans<\/u> collection<\/a> has a variety of homes with ornate roofs and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/fireplace-design-solutions.asp\">welcoming hearths<\/a>\u00a0for that cozy appeal.\u00a0 The cottage house plans collection is not just limited to small, charming homes but also includes larger, informal home plan designs as well.<\/p>\n<p>Here are our most popular cottage house plans, be sure to check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/country-house-plans\/\">country house plans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/bungalow-house-plans\/\">bungalow house plans<\/a>, as many of these designs tend to overlap.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/plan\/landon-4738\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/images\/plans\/AMD\/rendrngs\/22140rd.jpg\" alt=\"house plans\" width=\"480\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/plan\/landon-4738\/\">The Landon house plan<\/a>\u00a0is a \u00a0two-story French Country style cottage with brick accent. Inside the house there are three bedrooms, a dining room, great room and a home office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/plan\/la-meilleure-vie-2297\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/images\/plans\/EXB\/2847r2.jpg\" alt=\"house plans\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/plan\/la-meilleure-vie-2297\/\">The Le Meilleure Vie<\/a>\u00a0house plan is another ornate cottage with a very large ground floor. This one-and-a-half story home packs a lot in its ground floor with everything from a breakfast nook, to a study, and a joint living room and dining room. Upstairs features a billiards, game and media room for entertaining.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--origin=48--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In the Middle Ages, a cottage usually housed agricultural workers and their friends and families. Back then the term cottage did not just comprise a house, but also a barn and usually a fenced in yard or piece of land enclosed by a gate. \u00a0Today, the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[448,372,9],"class_list":["post-6856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houseplans","tag-cottage-homes","tag-cottage-house-plans","tag-small-house-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11062,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions\/11062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}