Monday, August 25, 2008

Cottage Charisma





Images Hutker Architects


Oaks Bluff Cottage is a delightful old cottage on Martha's Vineyard. Beautifully simple, it's a home that gives the word 'Weekender' a whole new meaning! I'm particularly taken with the internal shutters used over the bathroom windows & the touch of red via the verandah rocking chairs. The original post & beam construction has moved through the different eras of this home seamlessly, at each reincarnation they just reinvent themselves magically.

9 comments:

  1. I love cottage charm and these images are great. Thanks for sharing, Heidi

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  2. Like Willoughby S&S) I adore a cottage, but hmm the stairs look a bit challenging for my post ballet knees.

    Love the bathroom shttuers as well.
    More edivdence of your sublime taste.
    Your Hedge is a haven.

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  3. I am so drawn to the simple elegance of each of the areas pictured. I don't like the overdone cottages with all the fru-fru flowers and knick knacks. This is perfection!

    I have to thank you for your super kind words you said when rating my blog. Really, it means so much. You know I feel the same about you and your blog! Thank you Millie!

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  4. It was the shutters that spoke to me too Millie. I can quite picture a candlelit bath tucked up in that corner. As always, you have managed to find a simply gorgeous place.
    Clare

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  5. Hello Millie
    I love that staircase, in fact the whole house is wonderful......Thankyou for your visit, it made me smile...my husband is one of five brothers, and they all have sons so Kate is a rare creature, but little boys are so loving and adorable.
    Hugs Lynn xx

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  6. Thank you for always commenting on my blog. I am glad to here that Claire is a wonderful place, my grandmothers middle name was claire and I have always been facinated with it. Then I had this crazy idea that I should move my family to Australia and when I started to research the country in more detail I found Claire and it just clicked. I know this is crazy but I truly feel like I have a flock of angels guiding me to there and all these signs keep pointing me in the direction I need to be in. I just can't ignore the signs, my Father and Grandparents are these angels I speak of and they were and still are apart of my heart. Thank you for living where you are and for writing about such a wonderful place where I hope to be one day. Heidi

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  7. Thanks for your comment!It really cheered me up, I've been laughing every time I've seen the google logo.
    Hugs, Flisan

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  8. What a relaxing home this is - so gorgeous!

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And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
~W.H. Auden

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