A Dreamy Cottage By The Lake

The new Midwest Living hit my mailbox two days ago and I can not stop looking at this beautiful house on Lake Michigan.  It is my dream cottage...it looks like a little Hobbit house...not too big, full of well crafted details and thoughfully designed spaces.

 Love all the 1930's detailing, the green craftsman columns, the rounded screen door, window boxes, beautiful wood windows with the simple two over two grid pattern, the log construction...Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was right "God is in the details."

How quaint is this entrance?  It beckons you to enter in...

How wonderful is this door?  One of my very favorite things is a rounded front door. And if that wasn't enough it has a rounded screen door--good night!  You already know how I feel about wallpaper and I LOVE this paisley paper...and how about the curly willow bench?

Same paisley of the wallpaper is on the upholstered seats..great way to tie the rooms together.

Wouldn't you love to be writing from this little desk?

Look how the color is incorporated through the whole house from the inside out with the green beams.  Not to mention the gorgeous stone fireplace with the deer head. I don't know why but I heart game mounts.

Look at this beauty of a bathroom...the windows, the tub...Calgon, take me away...

You can see more picture of the house and read the story here.