It’s time to update the cottage, so what exactly do you do first? This may be a painful question especially if your ideas about cottage design are stuck in custom.
Your preference is modern. So, again what exactly do you do? The solution is simple: You muster up the guts to go against convention and make what you love.
Blend your attachment for simple forms with organic components. Blend stainless steel with driftwood, woven baskets with modern art — frankly, there are no hard-and-fast rules. To get the ultimate advantage of combining styles, just stay consistent with two layout styles. This ideabook concentrates on the modern cottage that marries ultramodern design with Mother Nature’s bounty. Let’s take a look.
Duncan Consultants
Vaulted ceilings offer ample space to highlight the expansive stacked-stone fireplace and welcome the disturbance of an oversize, hammered-metal pendant lighting. Slipcovered furniture, even though compact, allows the cottage to honor its hot, comfortable roots.
Masterson Studio
Clean lines and a two-toned wood mix modernizes this quaint cottage bedroom. Accessories featuring concentric circles from the modern artwork along with the overhead drum pendant mix with woven baskets in the same shape.
Woodmeister Master Builders
Clapboard cottage walls are calmed by ethereal blue paint and soft neutral squares. Like fine jewelry, the wall sconce and pendant chandelier are showstopping accents. A conventional whirlpool bathtub is replaced with a state-of-the-art soaking bathtub.
Woodmeister Master Builders
Cozy mid-century furnishings provide an update in this seaside living room. Natural elements like driftwood and rock soften the look of the electronics and allows the tv to feel integrated.
Woodmeister Master Builders
Bamboo cabinetry, aluminum tiles, and stainless steel appliances change this cottage from shabby-chic into metro-sleek. Exposed wire track lights provide an artistic contrast to the elegant crystal chandelier over the table.
Woodmeister Master Builders
Boi-glass green countertops take color cues from seaglass, a coastal treasure, and converts natural components into modern forms.
Richard Bubnowski Design LLC
Woven accents in the barstools and roman shades maintain the cottage aesthetic while the shiny metallic pendant lights insert an industrial element reserved for much more modern spaces.
Duncan Consultants
A partial-floating staircase is a remarkable architectural feature in this cottage as makes excellent use of space to get a handy office nook.
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