You've got to love the euphemisms that go along with marketing real estate.

My favorite of the week is "great room."

I was looking at a cottage advertised on the website of Day's Real Estate, which services the Belgrade Lakes area.

There was a photo of a cabin that couldn't have been more than 20 x 20.

But the copy writers lauded the property for its handsome "great room."

In a cabin that small, it's likely to have only one room - and to call it a great room is amusing.

Perhaps Your Scribe is sensitive because my 24 x 20 cabin has only one room.

And I haven't been inventive enough to call it my great room.

That having been said, there is a handsome cabin at www.daysrealestate.net that looks pretty good for reasonable money.

(An odd aside: The same property is listed twice on the same web page, once at $137,000 and once at $147,000).

It has a nice screened in porch, and is located on the Belgrade Stream in Mount Vernon.

And don't forget that "great room," which I understand comes with a "lovely loft."

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