Cottages and Bungalows

Create the cottage lifestyle you love in any home with expert tips, inspiring house tours, and fun DIY tips and instructions.

Cottages & Bumgalows

Easy Summer Livin’

Like It, Love It • Check out this month’s online exclusives.

The Ease of a Picnic Table • Summer is the perfect season to gather our friends and family outside for al fresco dining.

Ivey Creek Cottage • This former fisherman’s cottage on the river provides one couple with a dream-come-true lifestyle.

A Seaside Soirée • Curating your own coastal‘shell-a-bration’

Making the Most of the Coast • Do you need help getting into the coastal mood?

Seaside Sweets: Coastal Cupcakes • For a treat, create your very own coastal cupcakes.

Clay, Glass and Summer • These three colors will bring sun and sea to your décor.

A Sight to Behold • How to enhance—not distract—from your coastal view

Lisa’s View-Enhancing Tips

A Blooming Business • Everything’s coming up roses for this interior designer.

Cottage Treasures for Every Budget • Welcome summer with fresh wall art.

Summer Is the Season for and Sunshine Adventure , Flowers • Get ready for all three with these great finds!

Tiny BUT MIGHTY • At just 200 square feet, this 1905 cottage kitchen received much-needed functional updates while incorporating the charming original features and thoughtful custom touches.

Tips for SMALL KITCHENS

Crisp,Cool and Clean • A fresh set of sheets for summer is always a treat.

Beauty at the Beach • A newly built cottage’s design flows as naturally as the waves in the ocean.

Decorating With Rattan and Woven Pieces • Here are some great tips from designer Kara Miller on combining these summery textural pieces:

These Walls Can Talk

Seashells by the Seashore • Overlooking France’s Bay of Arcachon, this family holiday home, decorated in the traditional style of the neighboring oyster farmers’huts, allows for a dream retreat … and feet in the water!

Point • If coastal colors and amazing views of a bay float your boat, you’re going to love this Delaware beach house.

COLORFUL Coastal Cottage • Beach-loving homeowners take on two seaside home renovations, adding their personal coastal style to a new home and a short-term rental.

Waterfront Farmhouse • A self-taught husband-and-wife team slowly renovates a home for their family as they live in it, turning it into a coastal farmhouse cottage.

Library Card • Books can be art, as seen in Veronique’s library. Here are her tips for using books in your décor:

Walled In

Home Away From Home • Vera Bradley co-founder Barbara Bradley Baekgaard combines her characteristic use of bold pattern and color in a boutique hotel made to feel like home.

Four Reasons to Stay at  The Bradley Hotel

A Nostalgically Nautical Home PHOTOGRAPHED BY MARK LOHMAN • When her childhood friend’s home needed a makeover, this designer sprang into action.

Stylish Selections

Excellent Exteriors • Create the prettiest home on your block with tips from those who’ve mastered the art of curb appeal.’

Add a Splash of Personality

Sit a Spell

A Final Touch

Fanning the Flames: Recreating Mantels • Our Project House Villas are changing in big and small ways. One of the recent projects Sara McDaniel has tackled comprises the mantels, which are a distinct offering to the area because they depart from the traditional Southern mantel and fireplace styles.

Staying Cool

A Slice of Paradise • A designer’s lifelong wish and unique sense of style influenced her search for the perfect vacation home.

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