The Distinctive Cottage

Category: Cottage Style

Inspiration Boards: Blue and Green Room
Bedrooms

Inspiration Board: Lime & Aqua

Mixing together bright blues and zesty greens while maintaining a neutral color, such as white, creates a clean and inviting palette to invigorate just about anyone. In addition, blues and greens together to help to make a small room feel larger than it is. Add some eye catching details, such as prints and wall decor, to complete this fresh and fun room!

The Distinctive Cottage - Get The Look: Comfy Cottage Bedroom
Bedrooms

Get The Look: Comfy Cottage Bedroom

This comfy cottage bedroom is the perfect place to relax at the end of the day. One of the best things about this cottage bedroom is all the different textures that work together – wicker, wood, fabric – they are all here. The fabric prints are warm and inviting, while the lamps add a little bit of contemporary cottage style. Don’t forget about the artwork on the wall – it’s just the right bit of detail that helps to tie the room together!

The Distinctive Cottage | Color Board: Mum's Stripe
Bedrooms

Color Board: Mum’s Stripe

Fresh and fun, the Mum’s Stripe Woven Cotton Rug expertly mixes yellow, dark pink, soft orange, and even purple in it’s stripes. Choosing this colorful rug as a focal point in your living and family room is not meant for the faint at heart. We paired it with a yellow leather, a patterned fabric pulling in all colors, a nautical blue, and a little extra pattern in tangerine. These colors highlight the liveliness of the rug and will captivate your family and friends.

Coastal & Beach House

Color Board: Soft Neutrals

The soft neutrals of this cottage kitchen colors combination never gets old because there are so many hues to explore. This combination is soft and quiet, bringing light and happiness into this stunning kitchen. Though the wall color and upper cabinets are both white, they are in different hues to create contrast: the walls are a warmer creamy white, whereas the cabinets have more of a gray undertone. This is a renovation done by designer Sarah Richardson, who brought a modern appeal to an old country farmhouse.

Coastal & Beach House

Rooms To Love: Mixing Materials

Not only does this nautical living room look amazingly comfortable, but it has a charming coastal appeal as well. This space successfully incorporates a myriad of materials, from cotton and leather to rattan and sea shell, the textures are endless. The traditional red, white, and blue color palette has a variety of unexpected touches, including the whimsical polka dot and geometric print pillows. This is a perfect way to utilize a transition space that leads from the kitchen to the porch. Having comfortable seating and place to put your feet up makes it easy to relax!

Inspiration Board: Blue and Brown
Coastal & Beach House

Inspiration Board: Blue and Brown

Decorating with blue and brown is easy since they are a great complementing color combination. Bring in rustic undertones to your lodge or lake house with this inspiration board, while keeping your design in the modern era. With this wicker chair, one can either bring it indoors for a nontraditional look or keep outside on the porch overlooking the serene lake. Either way, this beautiful piece of wicker furniture would provide the extra seating needed for your Memorial Day gathering with the family. Don’t forget the details! The lamp, rug, and pictures add a small hint of color.

Bedrooms

Rooms To Love: Cozy Daybed

What a lovely spot for a quiet afternoon! The dusty blues and roses are beautifully blended with pale creams and yellows to create a distinctive cottage look. The iron bed frame is a classic country style, and is tailored nicely with the quilted box cover. Adding the chipped painted mantle piece above the daybed is a great way to display old frames and pictures for a vintage flair.

Inspiration Board: Painted Brights
Coastal & Beach House

Inspiration Board: Painted Brights

Who wouldn’t have fun with these colors? Eccentric, bright, and lively, you wouldn’t need to look for inspiration, motivation, or energy with these colors in your home. These colors, though vibrant, could easily be used in a bedroom. Simply pair the bright painted furniture with some neutrals to bring down the tone, while still allowing all colors to live and jive together in one area. The rug, a playful piece of decor, grounds all the pieces and becomes the focal point of the room.

Bedrooms

Design Tip: Natural Fiber Rugs

Do you love the look of natural fiber rugs, but are unsure of which kind would work for your home? If so, here are a few tips to help you find the right natural fiber (or alternative) rug to achieve the look you want.

Bedrooms

Rooms to Love: Boyish Charm

This adorable boy’s bedroom offers an updated and refined country farm decor style. It combines rustic elements, like the dark floorboards and ebony stained dresser, with refined touches, like the tufted upholstered headboards. The ivory colored walls, cream curtain panels, and beige rug produce a neutral palette, allowing the plaid bed linens to make a prominent statement.
This is an ideal scheme for a boy’s bedroom that you want the kids to grow into. It can also double as a guest bedroom when needed. Your guests will feel like they are staying at a sophisticated lodge retreat!