Petite Retreats Shed Square Footage for Simplicity

2/12/2015 9:00AM     

For homeowners who can have anything, next-to-nothing may be the greatest luxury when it comes to designing their vacation getaway. Photo: Amy Mikler for The Wall Street Journal

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... the highlight on the NetEase extra guest rooms ... some homeowners are designing Petite treats it ... like a bespoke see ... in coastal Maine can pray and his wife Doreen built a two bedroom house on a ten acre sliver of land on it ... this thing about the twelve hundred and fifty square foot home is that the of ... floor to ceiling windows wrap around the area in the mail ... the combination kitchen dining and living space ... Mr Gray has an eighteen foot Rehling celebrates the underside of the house on a pulley ... which she can really easily to the waters apps ... in Dutchess County New York Catholics now and Henry's mentally ill with a described as a private retreat and just over two thousand square feet ... the whole resembles a weathered barn with a wall of windows overlooking the field for a neighboring farmer increases his house ... the interior is hardly cried in one week range from an old Amish farm ... and then at three hundred year-old plate so it stood on Mr Smedley standing on ... this child has her own selling them ... Mr starkly has a large which out in the bar ... an hour outside San Antonio deal but just twelve hundred square foot home on a nearly seven hundred acre brands these tiny Texas standards ... it was originally designed as a weekend home for herself and her late husband ... down this picture spends much of her time ... of large cars and is the main living space ... and light for it overlooks a current native prairie grass ... an old plot had been mixed but just bought and transported to the property provides room for guests ... although he speaks he retreats back the national trend towards bigger houses ... for some the greatest luck cherry is privacy ... simplicity ... and a fuller sense of immersion in a natural setting ...