This final week of August, we’re revisiting summery tales from the archives, like this one:
Architect Greg Dutton got here to our consideration just a few 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 totally different, shares the identical elegant, simple-is-best spirit.
Although it wasn’t way back that his household bought this cottage, they’ve been fascinated with it since Greg was a child rising up on the ranch. “The cottage is immediately subsequent to our farm. You possibly can see my mother and father’ home on prime of the hill,” he says. He remembers each time they’d drive by the small house, his mother would make a remark about how it will make an amazing guesthouse for visiting household and buddies. So, a long time 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, had been put accountable for the rework, a difficult challenge that proved to be extra restoration than renovation, as they strove to focus on most 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 “My dad has a love for restoring outdated issues, and it was enjoyable to work with him on bringing the home again to life,” he says.
Beneath, Greg walks us by way of the household affair.
Pictures by Erin Kelly, courtesy of Greg Dutton Studio.
