English Cottage Garden

The passion for flowers and the love of their color is to be seen more than anywhere else in the English Cottage Garden. The small gardens associated with the quaint architecture of the English cottage often feature finer results than in the great gardens cared for by the best of paid gardeners and planted with seeds and cuttings of the most expensive kinds.

Cottage Painted Furniture

Shabby and discarded antique or vintage furniture can be brought back to life with a simple can of paint. With the right color and a set of whimsical cabinet knobs, a cast-off chest of drawers can be transformed into the focal point of a cottage style room.

Plan a Cottage Rose Garden

Cottage gardens of well-filled beds and borders with abundant blossoms and neatly kept grass and walks are the goal of all gardeners. Here we provide rose garden designs to begin to plan and create the perfect rose garden for the small backyard of a quaint cottage.

Create a Shabby Chic Bath

To start your new project, chose a light uplifting color for the walls. A pale green, pink, or yellow is a great background. Once your color has been chosen for the walls, it is time to decide on some decorative accent pieces.

Tin Ceilings & Tin Panels

Every tin ceiling can create the "Wow Factor" especially in a quaint cottage home. The tin ceiling, tin ceiling panels, or tin ceilings were popular from the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century as an affordable alternative to expensive, artistic plaster. Learn to paint tin ceiling panels for that shabby chic look.

Stencil Design for Window Curtains

Charming motifs for a design for cottage window curtains.  These stencil designs have striking characteristics and grace of contour with freshness of color. Find free printable stencil pattern.

Cottage Home Bathroom

Let’s redecorate the bathroom with the latest vintage bath ideas to create the perfect cottage home bath! Bath design ideas and tips including online bath design for bathroom fixtures, bathroom tile, bathroom paint. Lots of inspiration pictures – everything needed for bathroom decorating.

Cottage House Plans

Looking for cottage house plans? Browse our free house plans for designs of country homes, farm houses, cottage homes, and French Gothic style homes for inspiration.

Vintage Quilts for Cottage Decor

Often remnants of vintage quilts are part of this hodgepodge of textile leftovers. Old quilts in rough and worn condition can be recycled into beautifully crafted pillows that preserve the labor and effort of the original quilter.