Our clients worked with us to create a small grouping of Classic Southern buildings on their pristine North Florida acreage, including a large Main House and a secondary Guest Cottage which was built first. County ordinances required that the building be no more than 800 square feet, so our driving design motive was to create a structure that felt as though it wanted to be small, not that it had to be small. We sought to create an impression of modest simplicity, highlighted by proper detail and proportion. Oak Leaf Cottage is a study in the Classical Vernacular, itself a mirror of some of the South’s best qualities… it is proper without pretense, graceful but not grandiose, and sophisticated yet subtle.
