A cozy little cottage was situated in a Tennessee forest that  overlooked a small pond that was no larger than the cottage house itself. The house was what architects call a dog-trot house. The house was a two room house.  Not a two bedroom house but a two room house in its entirety.  There was a kitchen with a stove and oven and a little table in the corner, and there was a second room that was a bedroom where the family could sleep at night. The two rooms shared a common roof and when you opened up one door, whether the kitchen door or the bedroom door, you were on a hallway like porch where a dog could walk back and forth in the open air-- thus the designation “a dog-trot cottage”.