Inspiration for me: coastal or lakefront cottage pics
Hi all! This is a non-serious post. We just had an offer accepted to buy a nice little lakefront cottage (cedar shingled Cape Cod style) and I'll be daydreaming from now until close (fingers crossed) about how I want to decorate it. Do you have some images saved for your dream cottage? I'd love to see them! Although the house is lakefront I think the cape cod style would lend itself to a bit of a beachy theme as well.
Here's one of mine, I like the somewhat unusual color scheme:
I like this dusty turquoise and cream combo too.
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8 years agoCongratulations on your offer being accepted! I know your lakefront cottage will be just dreamy, and I'm eager to see more of it, particularly as you make it your own!
I too have become enamored of the Cape Cod style lately. While I'm not sure how I'll translate that to our new place once it's finished, I AM mulling it over!
Here's a Cape Cod style kitchen that makes me swoon.
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Comments (6)Here is a picture of my sitting room, which I just transformed to give it more of an eclectic coastal feel! And, a link to my decorating blog where you can see a blue painted piece, as well as other features of it. :) *Becca* Here is a link that might be useful: Adventures in Decorating...See MorePlease inspire me with pics of your dark painted walls..
Comments (19)Wowzers, there are some elegant rooms here! Kitchenaddict, thanks for starting this thread -- great idea! trailrunner, it's Old Fashion Milk Paint Company's Safe Paint for walls. It can be painted over previous paint jobs & has a more even coverage than the regular milk paint. The finish is rustic: rough & slight imperfections, but that's part of the look. The color is unbelievable. It looks rich & vibrant no matter what the lighting: dark days, bright days, incandescent light, morning, noon or dusk. The color shifts with the light changes like all paint colors do -- tomato soup red, copper, burnt orange -- but it never goes dull or dingy or grayish. Always beautiful. I like it much better than the Farrow & Ball. I have a bedroom painted in a soft blue milk paint -- same thing, the wall color is always amazing. There are two other companies I'm interested to try: Anna Sova milk paints with a palette range of 500 colors and The Earth Pigment Company's mix your own colors with a milk paint base. p.s. I signed up for RAGBRAI again! Lottery is May 1st. Keep your fingers crossed for me....See MoreCould this finally be our family lakefront cottage?
Comments (54)Oh goodness, it can be such a roller coaster looking for property. The thing about lakehouses is I find them a little less satisfying when they look like they could be in suburbia. Ideally a lakehouse has bit of a "roughing it" feel, or at least a veneer that suggests it! The lakehouse we owned was new construction and while lovely, of the vernacular, and certainly not a maintenance concern, it always felt a bit soulless to me....See Morehelp me with inspiration pics?
Comments (43)Hey Robo here's some possible food for thought. As you know I have a "garage forward" house too. I'm not crazy about the TV period, but my husband is, and bigger is better as far as he is concerned. Our TV is in our family room, which is open to a dining area and kitchen, classic "open concept." We have a gas fireplace in there. Like it or not, that's where I spend the majority of my time. We live in a cold climate and use our gas fireplace a LOT. It allows us to keep the heat much lower in the rest of the house and heat the area where we hang out in most of the time with the fireplace, thereby saving fuel. If we have a power outage we can bypass the thermostat and turn it on and even sleep out there on the futon couch. The downside is that anything on top of the fireplace gets exposed to considerable heat over a long period of time. I would not put anything expensive or that I was fond of over our fireplace. I had candles up there and they melted, not into a complete pool, but all out of shape. I know they say it doesn't negatively affect modern electronic appliances, but they say a lot of things . . . We aren't into frequent upgrading and replacement, which is why I think they get away with saying that, most folks have a relatively short term time frame with their stuff, but that's not us. In our family room, the fireplace is set in at an angle. That way it is exposed to most of the room. The way we have it set up, you can view the TV and the adjacent fireplace both from almost anywhere in the kitchen, dining room and family room. Here's a photo. We have a tiny house, and if you are a minimalist, you'll have to try hard to imagine the set up and get beyond the array of stuff we have that we use, records, magazines, books, musical instruments, and family memorabilia. Also, there's a doorway adjacent to the fireplace that leads into a small office at the back of the house, which would be a place I could go to escape the blare of the TV or my husband's stereo which he likes to have loud. I also have a sitting room on the other side of the kitchen and a small guest bedroom which I can retreat into. The master would be another option, although that is very utilitarian in our circumstances. Looking at this photo, you can see that the TV takes up visually what I consider to be a disproportionate amount of space in the room, but that's my compromise so my husband can enjoy the type of TV experience (particularly for sports) that is so important for his quality of life. We could have some type of scenic photo on the screen but I'm not sure how good that is for the screen over the long haul. We haven't done much experimenting with that, we have so many, many other things on our priority lists . . ....See Morerobo (z6a)
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoJen, sweet kitchen! This has a very nice kitchen...cream in color, with feet. The ceilings are 10 feet tall and there is a cream shelf running above the cabinets I can put all my knick knacks on.
Here's another somewhat unexpected color scheme I enjoy.
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8 years agoHow fun, congrats! I hope you enjoy it! I am doing some of the same type of daydreaming :-) My parents just bought a lake cabin about a week ago.
The cabin came furnished, and it's currently decorated in a very interesting mix of 70's/grandma/Early American/kitschy lodge, complete with taxidermy, ruffled curtains, and rust shag carpet! But, it has amazing potential, gorgeous views, and just needs cosmetic improvements. I am helping my parents make some plans for it, and I am totally restraining myself so they can make their own decisions, at their own pace. I'm dying to tear it all apart!!
Here are some of my saved pics:
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8 years agoI mentioned, in another thread, about the loving the beach house in the Netflex series Frankie and Grace...This link will take you to the hooked on houses site with lots of pics.
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoHere are a couple but I didn't take many inside and the ones from the listing don't do it justice unfortunately. Fingers crossed nothing comes up on inspection.
Across the lake is a conservation area So I think you can only see one home.
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8 years agoCongratulations! here are some pics I have saved on my iPad.
The last pic is the color scheme we have in the kitchen of our beach house (the pic is not ours, though).robo (z6a) thanked Sueb20
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoOK, no floral sofa, but how about lots of floral cushions? Love, love those floors!
Or a totally different take (Maybe not happy enough)
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoJust spent the week antiques shopping in southwest Nova Scotia....my husband willingly went to like ten different antiques stores with me which is a royal first. Got a couple of vintage quilts!
Home inspection done and all looks pretty good. Our inspector has eagle eyes.
Here are a couple more photos I snapped while there:
Living room to front door
Living room to kitchen
Living opening out to lake
My favourite part of the property...a rock formation I think looks like a waterfall.
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8 years agoAntiques finds
Pastel (1860) and paint x number
Quilt 1 and matching chair
Quilt 2 and matching paint x number
Oil and watercolour
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8 years agoUgh, maybe blurry, but certainly has made me very jealous....
How about some inspiration from this [houzz-a-california-style-coastal-cottage[(https://www.houzz.com/magazine/my-houzz-a-california-style-coastal-cottage-stsetivw-vs~50903730)Some pics, but more on that link
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