This final week of August, we’re revisiting summery tales from the archives, like this one:
Architect Greg Dutton got here to our consideration a number of years in the past, when he designed and constructed a 600-square-foot Scandi-Impressed Off-the-Grid Hut on his mother and father’ sprawling cattle farm in japanese Ohio. Just lately, we found he’s helped them add one other 600-square-feet guesthouse on their property. This one, whereas radically completely different, shares the identical elegant, simple-is-best spirit.
Although it wasn’t way back that his household bought this cottage, they’ve been serious about it since Greg was a child rising up on the ranch. “The cottage is immediately subsequent to our farm. You’ll be able to see my mother and father’ home on high of the hill,” he says. He remembers each time they’d drive by the small dwelling, his mother would make a remark about how it could make an important guesthouse for visiting household and buddies. So, many years later, when the property was put up on the market, it felt like kismet.
Greg, because the architect within the household, and his spouse Liz Dutton, an inside designer, have been put answerable for the transform, a difficult venture that proved to be extra restoration than renovation, as they strove to spotlight lots of the cottage’s unique charms. It was additionally, it turned out, a bonding expertise together with his dad. “My dad has a love for restoring previous issues, and it was enjoyable to work with him on bringing the home again to life,” he says.
Beneath, Greg walks us by means of the household affair.
Pictures by Erin Kelly, courtesy of Greg Dutton Studio.
