Art and Sand: cottage

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Little Cottage in the Garden

I live in a cottage.

I love cottages.

One of my Pinterest boards is titled, "Better joy in a cottage than sorrow in a palace".

And, I love browsing through my copy of , Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways.

So, the day I first set eyes on my friend Lisa's little garden cottage, I went nuts - serious cottage envy.

This is a photo of the cottage in the process of being installed.

photos via Little Mansions

After purchasing her cottage from Little Mansions, the company shipped everything to her home and then Schaun Carpenter, the designer, arrived to build the cottage himself.

Lisa chose a style with lots of windows.

and you can see that the windows open outward.

The skinny little windows on each side of the French doors don't open, but from inside the cottage they provide a lovely view of the patio.

Lisa originally purchased the cottage as a home for her harp -

what a gorgeous view she would have had while she played her harp.

Instead, she chose to turn the cottage into an office saying, "if you have to pay bills, you should have a beautiful place to do so."

Lisa's fun style shows through in the cottage with a painting done on one of the windows,

an essential romantic chandelier,

and a welcoming front entry

with a really fun scrappy banner.

I would love to have a sweet garden cottage like Lisa's.

But alas, I have no space in my garden so I just have to enjoy Lisa's cottage.

Lisa's home provided me with a wealth of photos for blog posts.

I showed you the front yard and porch here.

The interior of the house was shown here.

Earlier this week you got a view of the gardens here.

So I imagine you think the tour of Lisa's home is over.

There will be one more post, in a week or two - we will be on vacation for 10 days and I don't know if I will have any blogging time.

But, I still have to show you Lisa's Airstream trailer.

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Monday, April 28, 2014

Cottage A B C's

One of the projects on my March list was to clean and organize my attic.

Among the items I purged, were 39 books I have filled over the last 17 years with ideas for decorating my home.

It was a difficult decision to throw all of the books in the recycle bin, but I have many of the ideas in the books on my Pinterest boards and I never go up to the attic to look at the books.

One article I had saved years ago was Cottage ABC's and I used it as my inspiration for this post to highlight the ABC's that are present in my own little cottage.