Cabin vs. Cottage

Main Difference

The main difference between Cabin and Cottage is that the Cabin is a they are made of wood, more specifically, logs and Cottage is a that they can be made of a variety of materials, ranging from wood to brick to stone to mud and sod.

• Cabin

  A small room; an enclosed place. It is also used to address the smaller thing or place.

  U.S: A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built

  from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional

  builders, but by those who meant to live in it.

• Cottage

  A cottage is, typically, a small house. It may carry the connotation of being an old or old-fashioned building. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location.

  The word comes from the architecture of England, where it originally referred to a house with ground floor living space and an upper floor of one or more bedrooms fitting under the eaves. In British English the term now denotes a small dwelling of traditional build, although it can also be applied to modern construction designed to resemble traditional houses (“mock cottages”). Cottages may be detached houses, or terraced, such as those built to house workers in mining villages. The tied accommodation provided to farm workers was usually a cottage, see cottage garden. Peasant farmers were once known as cotters.

  The holiday cottage exists in many cultures under different names. In American English, “cottage” is one term for such holiday homes, although they may also be called a “cabin”, “chalet”, or even “camp”. In certain countries (e.g. Scandinavia, Baltics, and Russia) the term “cottage” has local synonyms: In Finnish mökki, in Estonian suvila, in Swedish stuga, in Norwegian hytte (from the German word Hütte), in Slovak chalupa, in Russian дача (dacha, which can refer to a vacation/summer home, often located near a body of water).

  There are cottage-style dwellings in American cities that were built primarily for the purpose of housing slaves

  In places such as Canada, “cottage” carries no connotations of size (compare with vicarage or hermitage).