Do you have a house or an apartment? If you have a house or an apartment, of course you have a garden. However, nowadays a garden does not have to be directly connected to the house. Even if you do not have a garden in a large house, you may have a small front yard. The purpose is to allow people to return home from the small front yard or from the sidewalk. But nowadays, people who live in apartments, studio apartments, or even vacation homes without yards can also get cottages. A friend of mine just rented a small apartment, only 2+1, which is fine for her family of three, but if she added one more family member, she would lose her privacy and be stuffy.
So I think those small apartments are not for big families. A friend of mine just rented a cottage with a really big garden. He told me that he lives there for four months out of the year and the rest of the months he moves into that little apartment. At least this way everyone is always doing what they love to do.
It\’s a really big cottage. It only has two rooms and a small kitchen, but the older kids always sleep in the apartment or in a tent in the cottage for privacy. That way at least everyone can have their own privacy in the garden and in the house, which they can only do four months a year because it\’s the hottest time of the year. For example, no one camps in the cottage yard in January or December, because January and December are really cold months and no one camps there. I have a really big house and a big yard, and I really enjoy it. What I like to do is, for example, my friends and their kids come and have a picnic in the garden.