Cottage at Home
17 October 2026
Cottage lighting ideas: warm lamps, room by room
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.
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30 September 2026
Cottage sunroom ideas: how the glass room is lived in all year
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.
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29 September 2026
Cottage kids room ideas: a room that grows up with them
A cottage kids room that lasts: choose the colour, the bed, the wool and the lamp once, for the teenager, and give the child one wall and one shelf to change.
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28 September 2026
Cottage bookshelf ideas: the English cottage look from the books you already own
A cottage bookshelf looks lived-in when it holds books you read, arranged by reach. Which books go on show, jackets, stacks, one object a shelf, colour and a lamp.
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28 September 2026
Cottage hallway ideas for the passage you walk through forty times a day
Nobody stops in a cottage hallway, so it has to work while you walk through it: lighting, colour, a runner, pictures up the stair wall, and the landing.
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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.