Workers Cottage Floor Plans

Homeowner mel lewis takes us over the ups and downs of her five year renovation of a queensland worker s cottage.

Workers cottage floor plans. A narrow ground floor extension creates space for a galley style kitchen additional living space and access to the backyard. There are slightly different solutions for the master bed layout depending on the desired view and access to the rear garden from this space. Note the detached kitchen on plan f a popular colonial feature carried into the new century with this pattern. These cottage floor plans include cozy one or two story cabins and vacation homes.

A number of queensland worker s cottages from the early 1900 s have charming decorative features. See more of this worker s cottage addition. All of the houses are high set. Originally in the middle ages cottages housed agricultural workers and their friends and families.

In general these include ornamental gables and arches a separate front porch and verandah or sometimes even a larger wraparound verandah. Option b 2 storey upper floor plan locates the sleeping zone in the existing home and living kitchen dining is added as an open plan pavilion along the northern edge. A cottage is typically a smaller design that may remind you of picturesque storybook charm. Cottage style homes have vertical board and batten shingle or stucco walls gable roofs balconies small porches and bay windows.

The old and new are both connected and separated by a large sliding door that acts as a transitional element while large windows provide views to the lush garden. The term cottage denoted the dwelling of a cotter. This creates opportunities for entertaining and enjoying time with family and friends. Asking price is 999 900.

Additionally many cottage plans also provide plans for back porches decks or other outdoor space. Cottage house plans are informal and woodsy evoking a picturesque storybook charm. If you are still in love with the quaint personality of your worker s cottage do not fret. It can also be a vacation house plan or a beach house plan fit for a lake or in a mountain setting.

It contains 20 plans for basic workers cottages mainly consisting of symmetrical and gabled bunglows with a few early porch and gable designs. One bathroom first floor unit currently being rented out for 2 600. Chimneys are entirely absent and replaced by stove alcoves. Thus cottages were smaller peasant units larger peasant units being called messuages.

Sometimes these homes are referred to as bungalows. Apr 19 2017 12 01am mel lewis director of tableware company antler and moss lives here with her husband conrad dorrough their two girls regan 8 and tyler 6 and their border collie cross kelpie tess.