Shingle

Escape in the tradition of the great Victorian Robber Barons, the historic .1% who's need to abandon the oppression of over-crowded industrial cities fueled the creation of the only truly American Architectural style:  the Shingle Style, a romanticism of form and nature borne out of the desire to rebel against the tyranny of the formal, classic European architectural 'rules' of the day, choosing to express our place in Nature instead of our dominance and power over it.   Better still, your 'cottage' does not have to be 20,000 SF.   You can have the same heightened soul of the Architecture of the American Summer without breaking 300 SF.