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Slide-Out Guest Bedrooms Define Odd French Holiday Cottage

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An unusual all-black holiday cottage from Atelier Raum in the French Bretagne region quietly but definitively defies local village traditions.

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A huge skylight brings brilliant light into an all-white interior room, contrasting with the dark exterior.

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This roof-wide skylight is at the base of a green roof that appears to continue the wooded hillside up another slope.

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Even stranger, this brilliantly daylit room is dug into the hillside, creating a pair of 45 degree angles with the roof slope.

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Interestingly, two guest bedrooms can be rolled entirely out of the tiny cottage, and placed facing any direction.

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Or stored inside.

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The result is a house that can be uniquely connected to the outside for a kind of camping experience.

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One enormous window connects the rule-defying cottage bedroom to its villagers.

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The eerie effect is that of a periscope peering out at unfriendly terrain.

In such a tradition-bound setting, this odd cottage is probably in exactly that relationship.

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