Charming Cottage Style Homes

 The term "cottage" and the house style most closely associated with it originated in England during the Middle Ages. Peasant farmers were known as "cotters," and their modest, rural homes came to be called cottages. Even today, a cottage-style house in the U.K. has the same description it did hundreds of years ago—the homes are simple dwellings meant to fight off the cold, typically with one large living room downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs, under a thatched roof.