Slow, cozy, lived-in home inspiration
A home, gathered over time
Make your home feel like a cottage with warm colors, old wood, and things you love. Browse room-by-room decorating ideas, seasonal touches, and printable wall art. Start with one shelf or a quiet corner, and take your time with the rest.
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A room, a season, a small change.
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Ideas to bring home, one at a time.
Kitchen & Pantry · 22 October 2026
Cottage kitchen colours that work run on a pair: a warm pale for walls and ceiling, one deep colour for the cupboards, and the wood counted as the third.
Read this: Cottage kitchen colours: one pale, one deep, and the wood between
Living Spaces · 21 October 2026
A cottage front door, kept and dressed: the colour and how to choose it from the road, the knob and old brass, the step, a wreath all year, and the inside face.
Read this: Cottage front door ideas: colours, brass and keeping the door you have
Living Spaces · 20 October 2026
Where cottage beadboard goes, room by room, how high to stop it, what to cap it with, and the colour and paint finish that keep it looking right.
Read this: Cottage beadboard ideas: the bathroom, the kitchen, the mudroom and the ceiling
Living Spaces · 18 October 2026
What makes a fireplace look cottage, from the surround and hearth to the log basket, the screen and the chairs. And the woodstove at the lake.
Read this: Cottage fireplace ideas: the surround, the hearth and the fire itself
Living Spaces · 17 October 2026
What makes lighting look cottage: several low, warm lamps in place of one bright ceiling light. What to use in the living room, kitchen, bedroom and outdoors.
Living Spaces · 12 October 2026
What cottage curtains are, and what to hang in each room: a café curtain in the kitchen, lined weight in the living room, and bedroom curtains that close.
Read this: Cottage curtains, room by room: the kitchen, the living room and the bedroom
Seasonal & Holiday · 11 October 2026
Traditional Canadian Christmas decorations to make or gather this December: cranberries and popcorn on thread, cedar from the hedge, berries and one orange.
The Lake · 10 October 2026
A cottage loft has no door, a sloped ceiling and a steep stair: where the bed fits under the slope, cooling it in August, and sleeping with the lamps on below.
Living Spaces · 8 October 2026
No bath, no shower, no steam: a cottage powder room is where the wallpaper, the darkest paint, the old mirror and the brass gone dull finally get to go.
Read this: Cottage powder room ideas: the one bathroom where the wallpaper is allowed
Kitchen & Pantry · 3 October 2026
A cottage kitchen table is chosen for what happens at it from breakfast to the lamp going on. The size that fits, the chairs, the wood, and what lives on it.
Read this: Cottage kitchen table: the one surface the whole day crosses
Kitchen & Pantry · 30 September 2026
A cottage plate rack holds the plates you eat off this week. What goes in it, how many, why the gaps matter, and which plates look right standing on edge.
Read this: Cottage plate rack: what goes in the rack you eat off
Living Spaces · 30 September 2026
A cottage sunroom does a different job each month: coffee in March sun, the evening room in August, plants in October, a cool room in January.
Read this: Cottage sunroom ideas: how the glass room is lived in all year
A little something for your walls
Six autumn botanical prints for a frame you already have. Get the pack by email, with an occasional note from the cottage after that.
The amber autumn pack, free
Six autumn botanical prints, sized to print at home — from this house to yours.
Six prints by email, and an occasional note from the cottage after that — no more. Leave whenever you like.
Cottage at Home
