Find the Cottages SIP from Fine Homebuilding magazine on newsstands now. It includes the intro from my book The New Cottage (Taunton Press December 2018) and some project excerpts from the book as well. For those who haven’t yet seen the book, this is good sneak peek. Happy cottaging!

The content below is the "Style Guide: 10 characteristics of today’s cottage,” which appears in Fine Homebuilding issue #027065, Spring 2021. Reprinted with permission © 2021,The Taunton Press, Inc.