Mystery Bay Cottages LLC: For Sale: Inspiration

So who influenced the Bentley? Well, as is our wont, all of our house designs begin with a vintage inspiration. Or two or three or sometimes four.

When building from the ground up, we follow the authentic instances as closely as possible to more faithfully capture the spirit of the period and style.

When remodeling, however, things get a bit trickier.

Because we are dealing with an existing footprint and basic structure, we must summon a little extra creativity to make it all flow into a harmonious whole.

So we begin with a stack of dusty old planbooks, narrowing down the possibilities to a few examples that we not only like but that also can work with our existing structure.

Then, with our inspiration houses in mind, we fashion our own interpretation of the style, combining the various elements of the vintage designs in a way that fits the instant case.

Hopefully, the end result is a pleasing variation of the style, worthy of its authentic inspiration.

But back to our dreary little dear. In this recreation, we drew upon two distinct but similar English-style Tudor Revival cottage designs that showcase many of the classic elements we like so much.

Both are house plans from the 1920s that were sold by the Loizeaux Lumber Company of Plainfield, New Jersey.

The first is called the Chopin and the second an unnamed design referred to simply as No. 14140-B (quite the romantic, that Loizeaux). Beauties both, we think, and with any luck we have captured something of their essense and charm. You be the judge!

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