FOR years, the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee have been dotted with quaint, unassuming cottages, modest places to hang your hiking shoes or moor a boat after a day of exploring the beauty of central New Hampshire.
Sleeps 2, from £495 a week Pets allowed This unassuming stone cottage hides a dramatic glass extension and a long garden complete with sauna cabin for warming up after a swim in the sea.
Built in 2008 for a 90-year-old client, the Hemp Cottage is an unassuming eco-build constructed entirely of natural material.
In each room or cottage there's an unassuming pile, stack or row of journals, on a rough-hewn shelf or inside a drawer: a crazy-quilt jumble of leatherbound, floral-upholstered and spiral-bound notebooks.
Even after death, the house retained a simple, albeit rickety, Veblen aura, lending to this once unassuming neighborhood of oak trees and cottages an intellectual and bohemian cachet.
As we worked, we uncovered the details that made this cottage such a sweet and unassuming example of the style.
A varied collection of historic cottages and summer villas dot this unassuming barrier island off the coast of Charleston, from quaint beach bungalows with wide porches, latticework and dormer windows to several stately officers' quarters -- remnants of the island's long military history.
Aardman's unassuming creations - Morph, Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts - are seen as a kitchen-table cottage industry, but the scale of their operation takes you by surprise.
Situated amid flowering lignum vitae trees in the unassuming fishing village of Treasure Beach – whose dark sands and rolling surf defy the Caribbean cliche – Calabash Cottage overlooks the ocean and has plentiful outside space.
Swindon's 19th-century Great Western Railway cottages remain popular, while McCloud and Howells have been working to create a low-cost, unassuming and low-energy version of this especially successful type of low-cost home.
