Found this a few days ago and have been meaning to post it. I was looking around the web for some interesting architecture – you know – something to jog the cobwebs out of the head and light a creative fire too long dormant – for some concept drawings for an online game in development. One of the sites I visit often for this is FineHomeBuilding.com. Believe it or not, the other thing I do is drive or walk around town, which is overflowing with Comstocks – similar-style cottages made famous by their creator, Hugh Comstock.

Take a look:

Inside the Hobbit House

Appreciating a modern-day cottage based on mythical literature

by Deb Silber

Asked to design a fitting repository for a client’s valuable collection of J.R.R. Tolkien manuscripts and artifacts, architect Peter Archer went to the source—the fantasy novels that describe the abodes of the diminutive Hobbits.

“I came back my client and said, ‘I’m not going to make this look like Hollywood,’” Archer recalled, choosing to focus instead on a finely-crafted structure embodying a sense of history and tradition.

The site was critical too—and Archer found the perfect one a short walk away from his client’s main house, where an 18th-century dry-laid wall ran through the property. “I thought, wouldn’t it be wonderful to build the structure into the wall?”