... plans with compact utilities
This California vacation house has two full baths, two spacious dressing rooms, a big utility room and a bigger kitchen all in a 500 sq. ft. core. Anshen & Allen, architects.
... plans with breezeway living rooms
A living room that is also a screened breezeway will help keep a summer house cool.
Best location:
right in the center of the house, as in this dune cottage designed by Peter Copeland.
. . . plans with bunk-instead of bedrooms
This Long Island vacation house has four bunk rooms that can sleep eight, plus four closet- all in 280 sq. ft. of compact floor space. Robert H. Rosenberg tâ George S. Lewis, architects
.. . plans with special storage
Summer clothes don't take up much space, but outdoor gadgets (like gardening tools, fishing rods, deck chairs etc.) do.
Result: you don't need big inside closets,
but you do need at least one big outdoor storage bin
with every summer house.
Bartos & Klein, architects.