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Batrie New England Cottage


Nameless1

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My shameful secret is that I have a weakness for obscure houses, which is why I happily spend so much time looking up out-of-production Greenleaf models. I regard construction as a necessary evil, so when I say a house shell is easy to construct, you can rest assured that a child of eight could manage it. If I stumbled over some of the smaller GL or Artply houses already assembled and going begging for an owner, my concerns about finding room for another house would vanish in the proverbial puff of smoke.

Over a year ago, we found an assembled Batrie Harvard series #310 New England cottage at an antique store in Pleasanton. The poor thing was painted pale blue and covered (not well) with 1980s country-style wallpaper and carpeting.

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I promptly painted the outside beige, wallpapered two rooms, then got distracted by the Arthur project. Part of the problem was that I already had an unfinished cottage in a similar style (my soon-to-be-someone-else's modified Victorian Cottage Jr.) plus a new third cottage with a similar layout (the Arthur). There are only so many four-room cottages with kitchen under the bath that a girl can build before she gets bored with the concept and starts fantasizing about guest rooms, dining rooms, and laundries. I love my Arthur because it's so shingled and so Berkeley and so funky... and my Batrie is obscure... so it finally made sense to abandon the VCJ project and move its residents into the nearer-completion Batrie. Now it's time to finish this project!

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