Fellow Cottage Transformations Blogs

If you're looking for other cottage transformation journeys (in the beginning stages!), I've discovered a couple of blogs recently that you will enjoy keeping up with. I look forward to reading the ideas and plans they have for their own cottages in the making and I'm sure you will, too!


The Lettered Cottage
"We live in a 1910 square foot cottage in Prattville, Alabama...Since then we've been tearing down walls, installing flooring and re-painting EVERY surface in the entire place. I will include some interior photos in a future post. But I must include this warning:
What you are about to see is ill-favored, hard-featured, uncomely, unsightly, unlovely, homely, heinous, vile, monstrous, and ominous.

Welcome to our home. :-)"




Cornflower Cottage
"My husband, Al, and I are beginning the process of renovating our home. We live in a 1,600 sq. ft. manufactured home with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, which we bought new in November '02. We like the floor plan of our home but everything else must go, e.g., vinyl-covered wall panels with the vertical strips, laminate cabinets, nondescript light fixtures, cheap hardware and faucets, cottage cheese ceilings, etc. I love all things cottage and hope to transform my home into the cottage of my dreams."

And for all of you who are considering cottage style for your own home, remember, you don't have to have an "architecturally correct" period style cottage to make your home your cottage. I live in a 30 year old little ranch style home. We haven't even touched the outside of our house yet (and it will be quite a while before we get to it), but it is our cottage none-the-less. There are many folks who live in apartments (Cindy's My Romantic Home is a prime example of a cottage style apartment!), mansion sized homes, campers, mobile homes, basement and over the garage rentals, cabins in the backwoods, and skyscrapers in the big city - that have embraced their cottage style and have created their own cottage nests. Cottage is a state of being and a style and feeling you create that is all your own without regard to the actual type of dwelling in which you live, don't you think?!