Sleeping up to four in cute, retro style, it has a cosy living area (with wood-burning stove), two bedrooms, a kitchen and shower room.
From the small entry hall, wooden steps lead to a cosy living area with a modern shower room delved into the two-metre-thick walls.
They wouldn't themselves, but they get a kick out of seeing ours". This stark villa was a bold arrival to sleepy Duluth, but inside it combined a cosy living area with a soaring view over Lake Superior.
There's an excellent restaurant too, serving Andean and Creole home cooking in a cosy dining area with a fireplace and decorated with leather masks, local fabrics and ceramics.
Honor & Folly (honorandfolly.com, one bedroom $165 a night, both bedrooms $215 ,plus a sofabed for children) is a home away from home with a fully stocked kitchen and a cosy living area decorated with vintage and locally crafted furniture.
Small Bar manages to walk the line between being unique and pretentious - its website has a list of "things you won't find" here, including pint glasses, TVs and Stella Artois - because of its passion for quality beer and sociable atmosphere (you can unwind with a book in the cosy sofa area upstairs).
Arguably the most romantic and best-positioned retreat on the North Norfolk coast; this wonderfully atmospheric inn has had a sympathetic face-lift and now offers smart bedrooms, a good restaurant and cosy public areas.
Bookshelves and libraries are back in vogue, whether they are being used as dividers in open-plan rooms (as seen at One Park Drive, a Canary Wharf development in east London), or in cosy reading areas (as in Hampstead Manor, a Mount Anvil development in north London).
Cool campsite Blackberry Wood (blackberrywood.com) led the way with the addition of a 1964 London Routemaster which had been "pimped" to include a downstairs kitchen/diner and cosy upstairs sleeping area.
Carrer de Josep Anselm Clavé 9, +34 626 053434, bonic-barcelona.com, doubles from €90 to €95 A charming and friendly pensió with four cheerful, unpretentious rooms sharing two delightfully colourful bathrooms, a cosy, cluttered lounge area and small patio.
