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Bedrooms

Color Board: Icy Silversage

Looking for cottage style bedroom ideas? These muted grey, slate, and seafoam hues create a quiet confidence that would be perfect for a cottage style bedroom or sitting area. This color palette offers layers of soft and understated fabrics for upholstery and pillows or for bed linens galore. Any combination of the selected paint colors would be perfect for the wall paint or for select painted pieces to accent the color scheme. White would also be a great paint color or drapery choice to create a crisp contrast among the sea of silversage.

July 9, 2013 2 Comments

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Creating Your Own Gallery Collage

The most important rule of thumb when creating your own gallery collage is to have fun! This is a design project that allows you to dictate what you want to see featured on your walls. Choose items that share memories, inspire you, motivate you, and ultimately make you happy. It’s an opportunity to express the people, places, and things you love.

June 28, 2013 No Comments

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Adding Extra Storage

Most homes can benefit from have more places to store all of life’s little necessities. Here are five ways of adding storage to your home:

May 31, 2013 No Comments

Bedrooms

Inspiration Board: Tangerine Dream

Decorating with blue and tangerine creates an exciting and whimsical theme for a kid’s play area or reading spot in a bedroom. The over-sized chair is big enough for two to curl up on, while the soft poof ottomans provide additional seating. Creating an environment for children is about visual and tactile stimulation, which is why you can be a little bolder with shapes, textures, and colors. Let their imaginations do the rest!

May 14, 2013 No Comments

Coastal & Beach House

Rooms To Love: Rustic Coastal Cottage

This rustic coastal cottage packs a lot of personality for such a small space. The painted white high-paneled wainscoting and walls provide a clean palette to showcase the red, white, and blue motif. The reclaimed wood accent pieces, like the coffee table, the cricket end table, and the storage chest of drawers, bring in a little bit of country to this seaside cottage. Tasteful coral, seashell, and sea glass accessories sprinkle the walls and surfaces to quietly reference the home’s natural surroundings.

May 7, 2013 No Comments

Bedrooms

Celebrating Earth Day!

Every April, Earth Day reminds us to appreciate the beauty of the world around us, and how much we need to protect and preserve it. Our earth provides us with tangible necessities to live, like air, water, and food, but it also provides us with a constant intangible resource, it’s beauty. For centuries, that beauty has provided artists and designers alike with inspiration from luscious landscapes, magnificent mountains, and roaring seas.

April 23, 2013 No Comments

Bedrooms

Color Board: Feeling Bold?

Feeling Bold? Try combining any of these saturated jewel tones to create a colorful cottage decorating scheme. Set the tone by choosing the diamond print in the center as a rug. Then the rest of the prints and colors on the board can be used for upholstery and painted pieces!

February 1, 2013 No Comments

Cottage Style

Inspiration Board: Farmhouse Reading Nook

A farmhouse style inspiration board featuring soft greens, blues and tans for a reading nook. #farmhousestyle #countryfurniture #cottagedecor #inspirationboards https://www.cottagehomefurniture.com

January 29, 2013 No Comments

Color Board: Blissful Blues and Subtle Sages

Bedrooms

Color Board: Blissful Blue & Subtle Sage

These blissful blues and subtle sages create a calming and serene palette, and would work beautifully in a cottage master bedroom. Linens are a luxurious fabric for the bedroom, as long as no one is too hung up on wrinkles! The natural texture and weight of these fabrics lend themselves to an upscale, yet comfortable, scheme as they tend to look worn in and relaxed. Using tan and taupe fabrics for the backdrop creates a versatile foundation to build from, and blends nicely with the other earth tones. Pair these fabrics with white painted pieces, and glass lighting fixtures, to create a romantic and soothing ambiance.

December 28, 2012 1 Comment

The Braided Rug: An American Tradition Old & New

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The Braided Rug: A Tradition Old & New

A staple of the country or cottage home, today’s braided rug is reminiscent of earlier days evoking memories of hearth and home. With sophisticated colors and patterns, braided rugs are now ‘at home’ in any setting from county cabin to urban contemporary. These are not your Grandma’s braided rugs!

September 21, 2012 No Comments

Cottage Style

Rooms To Love: Red & Turquoise Office

The mix of bold turquoise and red paired with more natural elements make a statement in this office nook. We love the windowseat – perfect when you need a break from work! What’s the secret for a great windowseat? A straight or curved window recess; it’s that easy. Not-too-large is better if intimate is the goal.

July 21, 2012 No Comments

Coastal & Beach House

Studies & Offices

Is your home office for personal or business use, or a little bit of both? What sort of atmosphere should it have? How much storage do you need? Any unused corner of your home can be turned into a functional communication center. The nature of the space and the requirements of the activities you pursue in it will guide the way you set it up, but remember, its still part of your home and should reflect the cottage decorating look you are trying to achieve. Be realistic – it doesn’t matter how cute your desk & chair are if they’re not comfortable to sit and work at!

July 15, 2012 No Comments