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We are excited to welcome Sam Hawkins and the F.C. Tucker team to the Inglenook family!

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

In August, Sam Hawkins and his team from FC Tucker joined us and are leading our marketing program.  Sam brings with him a team with more than 70 years of combined experience. This advantage gives the Sam Hawkins Team the experience and education to assist you in finding the perfect cottage for you and your family.

Please contact Sam with any and all of your sales questions.  You can reach him at 317.580.7854 or via email sam@talktotucker.com.  For Model Hours please call or email us.

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Outside the Cottage

Monday, April 19th, 2010

My grandmother, my mom and my wife are all gardeners and over the years I have learned that there is a lot love, caring and friendship involved in gardens. 

I can’t say that I have learned to be a gardener.  I kill a lot of plants and therefore I have been given the yard to mow.  My wife gardens and I mow and every once in a while I have been known to mow over a flower or two.  I tell myself that it is because I am an engineer and I like to do things in straight lines.  But the real reason is that I don’t have a green thumb and plants don’t like me.

My grandmother grew roses, lots of roses and always had enough for a grandson to borrow for a date.  Those flowers always made a great first impression at least until my wife, then on our first date, asked me if I gave all the girls flowers.  My answer was yes.

My mom is what I would call a “native” gardener.  She likes plants that are native to the area and she likes to transplant them a lot.  There has been many a road trip down the back county roads of Hendricks or Brown County looking for and digging day lilies.  I even remember visiting a country graveyard and coming back with a trunk full of ivy.

Now, my wife is a “friendship” gardener.  All her plants come from friends’ gardens and vise versa.   Not much organization, but a lot of color.  A couple of years ago I found out what a “friendship” garden truly was.  Magee had taken a day off work and decided to take a tennis lesson.  During the tennis lesson she fell and broke both her wrists.  Needless to say, the girl friends swooped in and took great care of her for a few months and in the process her garden.  It was amazing how much gardening and talking a bunch of girlfriends can do in a couple of days.

One of the things the fun things about our clustered cottage community are the gardens and how the cottages and gardens work together.  Every cottage has a small yard and a knee high fence – perfect for a “friendship” or “therapy” garden. 

I was asked the other day if the exterior of the cottage were taken car of by the Home Owners Association.  Mowing the grass is the easy part, but the garden – that is some thing special; something personal and something to share.  And Magee would tell you, I am not good with plants.

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Naming a Cottage

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

I grew up in a small town west of Indianapolis, in a large Victorian house that was always called the Land house.  

I don’t think too much thought went into the name, but my mom was a school teacher so everyone always knew where the Lands lived.  When I got married, she was from New Orleans and very southern.  I noticed that all my wife’s family houses had names.  Now you would have had to meet Magee’s grandmother, Mom M, to understand why the family farm up in northern Louisiana was called the Crescent Plantation, and all the rest of the houses had fun names like Chickamaw, Tokalon or Dogwood.  The names always seemed to add character.  And not to be out done, when my parents moved to Brown County, their new home was called the Trails.  Of course my mom had to go and cut a trail out of the woods for every grand child. To this day, each of my kids knows where their trail is.

And now that we are building cottages; we find that most cottages have names.  Cottage names today are inspired by a bewildering array of sources; everything from location and local history to literature and legends.  When you dig deeper into the name — you find that seems to always be a good story and always tends to be a tad personal.

Favorite names taken from animals include Badgers Cottage, Cuckoo Cottage, Curlew Cottage, Dolphin Cottage, Fox Hollow, Kestrels, Magpies, Mole End, Nightingale Cottage, Robin Hill, Rookery Nook, Squirrels Leap, Swallow Barn, The Jays and Two Hoots.

Favorite names taken from trees include Orchard House, The Orchard, Woodlands, Treetops, Oaklands, The Willows, Yew Tree Cottage, The Laurels, The Hollies, The Beeches and The Firs.

Wild flowers always make great names for cottages.  Some favorites include Rose Cottage, Primrose Cottage, Honeysuckle Cottage and Lilac Cottage.

Locations and views offer names with a few favorites being Hillside, Hillcrest, Sunnyside, Woodside, Meadow View and Fairview.

After doing a lot of research or at least a lot of reading, I find that I could name a tavern or pub, just as well as a cottage, but it just does not have that personal touch.  Therefore, we invite you’ll to name your home when you join our community.

 And as always, have a great day!

Casey

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