Creole cottage kitchen

Breeze Braunschweig and Kartik Ramachandran renovated their Creole cottage in New Orleans using tax credit incentives and lots of salvaged finds. See how they knocked $100K off the total budget.

After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, architects have been designing prefab, energy-efficient, affordable homes, like the ever-evolving Katrina Cottage.

Move over all-white kitchens and standard subway tile, these new tile, marble, and natural stone backsplash designs will be the focal point of your culinary space

Michael Hopping lives and works out of his raised Creole cottage in the River Parishes, not far from New Orleans. The house has seen it all, including the flood of 1927 that devastated south Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta. When the levees were heightened and widened in 1928, the house was moved inland a bit, farther away from the Mississippi River, to make way for the more robust levees.

If I could have any home, I would love a raised Creole Cottage. I came across this beauty from the River Parishes while reading The New Orleans Advocate. You can read about this beauty and see more pictures HERE. Creole cottage is a term loosely used to refer to a type of vernacular architecture indigenous to the Gulf Coast of the United States. Within this building type comes a series of variations. Creole Cottage, y'all!

A New Orleans stylist blends history and beauty with aplomb in his colorful circa-1836 home

A description and some samples of the architectural styles that are prevalent in Hancock County: Creole Cottage

A Louisiana maverick brings an antebellum Creole cottage back to life

Because you don’t have to sacrifice beauty for function.

A New Orleans stylist blends history and beauty with aplomb in his colorful circa-1836 home