A following for eccentric Moody cottages

Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times

By Frank Nelson They are called the Moody cottages, about three dozen pixie homes built in the 1930s and '40s in the Santa Barbara area by sisters Harriet, Mildred, Brenda and Wilma Moody. With ceilings slanted to an extreme, windows irregularly sized and rooms configured in odd shapes, the homes are whimsical -- if now downright eccentric. But as Moody cottage owner Christine Hoehner attests, what the cottages lack in size they make up for in history, character, magic and charm. Here, Hoehner climbs the storybook stairs while her dog, Emily Dickinson, sticks around for her photo op.

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