One rainy night, the roof of a much-loved 1915 cottage collapsed. This event called upon the dwelling family to reimagine and rebuild. As design proceeded, the memory of the cottage lingered, and abstract ghosts of the old cottage imprinted themselves into new building form; its smallness preserved, its scale sustained. Within this design process of old vs. new, we asked a series of questions of domesticity, real estate, ecology and modernism: what is enough? In a boom-town city such as Vancouver, can the market bear being spatial over being spacious? Minimize rather than maximize? Can a small-ish house share the land with salmon in the nearby stream - be less to do more? What is a modern house for clients with little appetite for modernism?