Kitchen
Kitchen design: Cottage-style kitchen
Kitchen design: Cottage-style kitchen
Kitchen
Kitchen design: Cottage-style kitchen
It’s hard to call your house a home when, like Linda and Paul Dobson and their two teenaged boys, you move every couple of years. “When the boys were small, we decided that we should have a place they could always call home,” says Linda. “A cottage was the answer.” They opted for a 1,200- square-foot ’60s prefab in Ontario’s picturesque Muskoka, not a surprising choice for the expat couple, who currently live in the United States but hail from Georgetown, Ont.
Three years later, it was time to renovate the cottage. “We needed to make more room for family and update the interior a bit,” says Linda. That meant taking on a two-year-long overhaul to increase the cottage’s square footage and reinvent the cramped kitchen into something that would work for them. When the sawdust settled, the new renovated kitchen, designed by Nancy Fournier of Northern Living Kitchen & Bath in Seguin, Ont., emerged as the gathering place for family and friends. “It really is the heart of the home,” says Linda. Quite an accomplishment, considering the kitchen posed some serious challenges: It’s only 10 by 13 feet and timber framing posts cut into valuable storage space, which Linda, an avid cook, needs.
Three years later, it was time to renovate the cottage. “We needed to make more room for family and update the interior a bit,” says Linda. That meant taking on a two-year-long overhaul to increase the cottage’s square footage and reinvent the cramped kitchen into something that would work for them. When the sawdust settled, the new renovated kitchen, designed by Nancy Fournier of Northern Living Kitchen & Bath in Seguin, Ont., emerged as the gathering place for family and friends. “It really is the heart of the home,” says Linda. Quite an accomplishment, considering the kitchen posed some serious challenges: It’s only 10 by 13 feet and timber framing posts cut into valuable storage space, which Linda, an avid cook, needs.
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