Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 28/09/2026Now that is a proper garden portrait. The pale wood and those red strings against all that blue, with the rocks holding it up like a stand. Worth every plumbing bill. Good luck with the old foe this week. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 27/09/2026A rock cottage with bluebonnets right up to the porch is worth a few rounds with old pipes. And the rusted harp standing in the garden is the perfect touch for a harp wrangler. Hope the fix is as easy as it looked by the afternoon. 110
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 27/09/2026A metal crow is the best kind of Halloween find. He looks just as right against that white panelling in November, so he never has to go back in the box. 110
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 27/09/2026A whole haunted village with a calm mountain lake hanging right above it, so the town gets a view. For next year, a narrow riser behind the front row gives you a second street without widening the mantel. 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 27/09/2026The cat-eye sunglasses make it. A stone chimney that serious needs one thing on it with a sense of humour, and she found it. I'd hold her to that promise. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 27/09/2026The one with the dock tucked dark into the corner while the whole lake goes pink is the one I'd frame. Evenings like that are what the rest of the week at a cottage is for. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 26/09/2026Puck knee-deep on that golden rock, sending rings right across the bay. That is a proper last morning up north. Safe drive home to you both. 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 26/09/2026Painting week is always the messiest week and then, all at once, the best one. Once the ladders come down, what colour did you go with? 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 26/09/2026What a day for that house. Fifteen of Ma and Pa Sweeney's family back around the kitchen table a century after they built it, with all those summers to tell you about. And Pa's donkey being called Veronica is the best detail of the week. 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 26/09/2026Twelve Christmases of a house that gently chimes is a lovely thing to be leaving. Maybe one of those bells goes on the first door at the new place. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 26/09/2026That front looks like wind moving across a lake. Hard to believe it spent all those years under paint in somebody's kitchen. Rollers under the laser bench is a good second life for it. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 25/09/2026Four little busts in masks on the mantel is the best kind of Halloween decor. They look like they're planning a very polite heist. Good luck finding them some friends at the thrift stores. 110
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 25/09/2026Halloween lights on the mantel and brown butter cookies with your youngest is a lovely way to let fall in the door. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 25/09/2026Glad the truck got it all out there before the rain came. Hope Molly got a good pail of berries in before it poured. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 25/09/2026That quilted bag with the black cats and pumpkins steals the whole sill for me. And tucking the photo board in the middle, with all the dogs and the little cockatiel, makes it so much yours. 110
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 25/09/2026What a send-off. The moon laying a path right across the water, the boathouse out on the point, the sky going pink behind the pines. That's a picture to keep on the fridge until May. 011
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 25/09/2026Navy wouldn't read as a bedroom here. Your rug already has navy in it, so navy curtains would tie the windows to the floor and sit well beside the red door. Dark grey would mostly vanish into the walls. A matte cotton with a blackout lining would fix the shine and the streetlight both. 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 24/09/2026The stepped stone arch and the fan mirror above it echo each other so nicely. And those green glass lamps with the little crystal drops are a treasure. No wonder it makes you smile when you look up. 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 24/09/2026Winning a Muskoka trip right when you need one is lovely timing. The maples should be turning by then, so pack a warm layer for coffee on the dock in the mornings. Hope it's a proper rest. 110
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 24/09/2026Painting the panel above the uppers the same teal was the smart call. The whole run reads as one built-in piece instead of boxes hung on a wall, and those gold hinges look deliberate against it. Enjoy putting the house back together. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 24/09/2026Hanging the mugs from a dowel does two jobs at once. It clears the counter, and it turns that pink wall into a backdrop for them. The little pink pumpkin mug looks like it was bought for exactly this wall. 110
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 23/09/2026That low autumn sun across the floor is the best thing the season brings indoors. Maggie has clearly claimed the warmest square of it. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 23/09/2026That burning-dust smell is the surest sign autumn has arrived. It fades after the first hour and then it's just warm. Enjoy the storm day. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 22/09/2026Someone will tell you dark cabinets mean the beige counters have to go. They don't. That cream speckle against the blue is what keeps it warm instead of showroom-cold. 110
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 22/09/2026Turn one chair away from the group and toward the water, and leave it that way. It's the smallest arrangement decision in a Muskoka room and the one that gets used most, because a screened room's real job is sitting alone in it early. cottageathome.com/the-lake/muskoka-…cottageathome.comMuskoka room: the one chair turned to the waterFurnishing the screened room nobody furnishes: what survives out there, where the lamp goes, and the room's own three-date calendar. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 22/09/2026Leaning the pumpkin drawing instead of hanging it is doing quiet work. The whole corner reads as one arrangement put together for the season, and the LEGO cottage sits inside that picture as if it was always part of your plan. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 21/09/2026The divided dish is the one to be pleased about, and mostly because the lid is on it. On those the clear lid is the part that goes first, chipped on the rim or left behind at somebody's potluck, so one that still has its lid is the good half of the find. 010
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 21/09/2026Kind of you. Winter is good to the knitting as well. From now until March the sun comes in low and sideways, so it rakes across a knit and shows every stitch. Summer light from overhead flattens it. Unpainted wood is the same, the grain only shows in low light. 110
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 21/09/2026Primitive rooms were built for short days, which is probably why autumn and winter suit them so well. Milk paint doesn't shine, pewter goes soft in candlelight, redware warms up beside a flame. Summer never quite knows what to do with any of it. 110
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 21/09/2026You don't have to turn the whole case. The shelf the autumn things actually sit on is the only one competing with them; the rest can keep their spines. Half a case turned reads as a choice rather than a trend, and the titles you reach for most stay findable. 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 21/09/2026The amber glass pumpkins and the dried orange slice on the sheaf are doing the same job. Both let the light through, so they read warm even under a flat grey sky. A solid orange one in the same spot would just sit there. 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 19/09/2026A flashlight in a drawer is no flashlight at two in the morning. In the bunkie it hangs on a hook inside the door, at the height a hand reaches without looking, because the guest out there can't come and find you. Hang the flashlight on it tonight. cottageathome.com/the-lake/cottage-…cottageathome.comCottage bunkie: the guest room your guest walks to in the darkA cottage bunkie is the guest room reached alone in the dark: a flashlight on its hook, water by the bed, wool findable without a light, a screen that shuts. 001
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 06/09/2026A dining light can hang far lower than any other in the house, because nobody walks under a table. Bring the shade to about thirty inches above the wood, so no bulb shows from any chair, and the light stays on the food and the faces. cottageathome.com/living-spaces/moo…cottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 05/09/2026A dark room does not feel gloomy when the things in it have been used. Worn wood, a little brass, the lamps low and warm instead of one big light overhead. That is most of the trick, and it costs nothing to try in the room you have. cottageathome.com/living-spaces/moo…cottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 04/09/2026The bathroom is the one room that makes its own weather, and old things handle it better than new ones. Milk glass on the sill, brass taps left alone to go two tone, linen towels dry on the hook by lunchtime. cottageathome.com/living-spaces/vin…cottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 03/09/2026An old gilt mirror with clouded silvering stopped bouncing daylight long ago. What it does now is hold lamplight: the lamp lands in it a second time, dimmed and warmer. Hang yours where it can catch a lamp from across the room. cottageathome.com/living-spaces/vin…cottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 02/09/2026Most December decorating is written for pale houses: lights against the dark, brighten every corner, fight the season to a draw. A deep green room has no quarrel to settle. Fir laid flat, brass at three heights, the tree strung deep. cottageathome.com/seasonal/moody-ch…cottageathome.comMoody Christmas decor: deep green, brass, and candlelightA pale room borrows Christmas. A deep room hosts it. 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 02/09/2026A dark floral print in a frame from the thrift shop, on the wall by the kettle where the morning light lands first. That is the whole idea of these prints. Print it yourself tonight; everything in our shop is 30% off until 30 September. cottageathome.com/shopcottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 01/09/2026In December, a robin print takes the turn of our stairs from the crow that holds October. The crow said October. The robin says something kinder, and says it all winter. Six prints, free for an email address, months early. cottageathome.com/printables/vintag…cottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 01/09/2026These are lovely. The thing we keep wanting in December is a colouring book you can print at home, a proper stack of pages rather than a single sheet, so a child has something to sit with while the adults cook. A free seasonal set would be a kind thing to put out. 100
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 01/09/2026The house still keeps summer's hours, but the porch gave up a week ago: boards cool by four, a leaf under the door, woodsmoke on the evening air. Tonight, light one candle in a lantern by the door and see how it carries from the road. cottageathome.com/seasonal/cottage-…cottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 31/08/2026Art can be a small decision. The sets in our shop are printable files, CA$16 to CA$49: download one, print it small first, prop it on the kitchen shelf for a week, and save the good frame for the one you keep looking at. cottageathome.com/shopcottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 31/08/2026Halloween arrives loud by default: orange plastic, things that grin and run on batteries. There is an older door. Uncarved heirloom pumpkins, dried teasel in a jug, one lit taper in old brass. A gentle October in a quiet house. cottageathome.com/seasonal/cottage-…cottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 30/08/2026Your house already picked its reading spot: wherever the book keeps landing face-down. A stair the late sun holds, the arm of one chair. Nothing to build, just bring a lamp and something wool to the corner that chose itself. cottageathome.com/bedroom-nooks/coz…cottageathome.comCozy reading nook ideas for small spacesThe corner your house already chose, and the three things that make it work. 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 30/08/2026Not every dark paint sleeps well. Charcoal and ink go flat under a warm bulb. The darks that thrive at night keep brown at the root: bottle green, clay, umber, tobacco. Lamplight is brown-gold and a wall with brown in its base takes it. cottageathome.com/bedroom-nooks/moo…cottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 30/08/2026Every pantry goes wrong the same way: a second bag of rice comes home because the first was hiding behind the tins. The fix is shallow shelves, one jar deep, so you can read the stock at a glance. cottageathome.com/kitchen-pantry/co…cottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 29/08/2026Fall decorating with things that have already lived through a few autumns: stoneware crocks, amber glass, worn Pyrex, the pieces you find rather than choose. How to let the season's own objects do the work. cottageathome.com/seasonal/vintage-…cottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 29/08/2026Six harvest studies for an autumn wall: orchard apples, quince preserves, the chestnut bowl, a wheat sheaf, damsons, the cottage loaf. The Autumn Larder is in our shop, printable, so you download and print at home. cottageathome.com/shopcottageathome.comCottage at Home 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 29/08/2026Our shop is open. Eighteen little still-life studies for the whole house, printable at home and hung the same afternoon. cottageathome.com/shop 000
Cottage at Home @cottageathome.com · 28/08/2026A dark kitchen does not have to feel like a cave. Pick the depth for the light you actually have, keep the brass low and warm, and let the lamps do the evening work. The whole guide, room first, for the house you already own. cottageathome.com/kitchen-pantry/mo… 000