I’m not sure why, but the cottages I’ve been to (you know, the “rustic” type) all have this mish-mash of decor. It was like someone said “boy this dresser that Grandma left us is in pretty good shape! Anybody want it? No? OK, let’s use it at the cottage!” To me, that’s part of their charm
We spent a week recently at a cottage full of all sort of gems. It is a 5 bedroom cottage big enough for both my kids, their spouses, the grand babies and even my DIL’s parents joined. And it was full of treasures! The couch was straight out of the 1960’s, chintzy sunfish from the 1970’s hang in the bathroom, and there are two dining sets: one a classic oak and another a more elegant dark wood affair.
These delicate china cups hang in the cupboard with a cornucopia of bowls, plates and coffee mugs.
Remember BlockBuster? The place to go on a Friday night in the 1990s? A booming business now extinct thanks to Netflix. But I found the popcorn bowl!
Not to be outdone, I picked up a Paint-by-number set from the local Dollar store for the adults to dabble with. It was cheap, with cheap paint that you could still see the numbers through. In some places, there was NO number so you could take some artistic license.
Most of the adults took a stab at it and here is the finished product:
But I found a few other cottage gems -some truly precious ones:
Precious Princess Eva (note the mug, anyone place the year?) is worth more rubies than the world holds.
There were so many cottage gems all around me, I could scarcely take them all in.
