Category Archives: Paint Treatments

Coastal Cottage Style Table

Posted by LIz

Here’s a super simple DIY project… haha… I notice that as I’m getting older and older, my DIY projects are getting easier and easier. But this one was a really fun re-do of a sturdy but ugly little kitchen table to create a coastal cottage style table. Here’s what I did:

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Posted in Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, DIY - Crafts - Floral, Furniture, Paint Treatments, Re-purposing

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Tags: coastal cottage, home to cottage, hometocottage, Merveilles de la mer, Mod Podge, sea life, table

Chalk Paint Dresser

May 21

Posted by LIz

In my quest to make one of the spare bedrooms in our 100 year old house more suiting to our granddaughters, I’ve added this chalk painted dresser. Here are a few details about this vintage piece…

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Posted in Bedroom, Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, Furniture, Our 100 Yr Old House, Paint Treatments, Uncategorized

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Tags: chalk paint, dresser, home to cottage, hometocottage, mirror, vintage

Kitchen Stairs

May 14

Posted by LIz

In the kitchen of our 100 year old house, the family that lived there in the 1960’s closed off and removed part of the kitchen stairs to make room for more counter space. When we recently renovated the kitchen we were thrilled to bring back the original stairway. Here’s the before, during and after of our kitchen stairs project…

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Posted in Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, Floors, Kitchen, Our 100 Yr Old House, Paint Treatments, Uncategorized

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Tags: 100 year old house, home to cottage, hometocottage, kitchen, kitchen stairs, renovation, stairs, stairway, stripes

Looking at the Classics for Inspiration

Apr 10

Posted by LIz

It is by studying period pieces, houses and structures that we gain an understanding of the authentic style and gain inspiration to reinterpret that into a contemporary design. So let’s do just that… let’s take a peek back today, looking at the classics for inspiration. You may be surprised to see this period piece, and see just how much it can influence today’s styles…

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Posted in Color, Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, Paint Treatments, Travel, Uncategorized

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Tags: antique, classic, cupboard, home to cottage, hometocottage, inspiration, MIA, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Norwegian, paint treatment, period

Wallies… I Had No Idea

Feb 16

Posted by LIz

When it came time for me to do something with the walls in our very small front entry, I had envisioned wallpaper. Unfortunately though, sometimes I can envision too well for my own good, and so when I went shopping for wallpaper, I really couldn’t find the pattern and color that I had created in my mind for these walls. Read the rest of this entry →

Posted in Color, Front Entry, Our 100 Yr Old House, Paint Treatments, Uncategorized, Wall Treatments

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Tags: front entry, Hirshfield's, HomeToCottage.com, paint, Wallies, wallpaper, Wayfair

Shades of Orange

Jan 16

Posted by LIz

Yesterday, we experienced the first day, in several days, where the outdoor temperature got above 30 degrees!

Whoo hoo! After a week of the temperature hovering around 0, (yep, that’s ZERO for you southern readers) 30 feels balmy! So I celebrated by bundling up and going for a walk around the neighborhood. It felt so good.

Feeling inspired by the fresh air and the color orange, I snapped a few pictures to share with you.

I think I’m inspired by the color orange today, because yesterday I watched a P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home episode where he showed his painted cheery orange furniture on the porch of his beautiful house he built in Arkansas. (he was showing how he planted the tulips in shades of orange to coordinate with the porch furniture in front of his house he calls Mossy Mountain Farm… so beautiful)

Well you can hardly just call it a house, it’s much more than that. And the attention to detail to the house, interiors, land, gardens, gates… oh my the list goes on… amazing. Anyway, he had the porch furniture painted a cheery orange color, and that has been bouncing around in my head for the last day. Read the rest of this entry →

Posted in Color, Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, Garden, Neighborhood Tours, Paint Treatments, Someone Else's House, Uncategorized

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Tags: charming, cheer, color, exterior, front door, HomeToCottage.com, neighborhood, orange, P. Allen Smith, shade, tone, tulips

Someone Else’s House: Vintage Bungalow Enclosed Front Porch

Jun 24

Posted by LIz

One more room to see from the vintage craftsman style bungalow I’ve showed you so many rooms to…

The enclosed front porch.

This is how it looked when they went through the house to see if they wanted to buy it…

Doesn’t look too bad, but once they closed on the house purchase, click here to read the rest of the story…

Posted in Furniture, Hardware, Interior Windows, Neighborhood Tours, Paint Treatments, Porch and Entry, Re-purposing, Someone Else's House, Sunroom, Uncategorized, Vignettes

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Tags: bungalow, craftsman, Craigslist, door, Hirshfield's, home to cottage, hometocottage, paint, porch, Ralph Lauren, TJ Maxx

Our House: Changes in the Library

Jun 12

Posted by LIz

The library in ‘Our House’ has changed a lot over the past 17 years that we’ve lived here. In fact, when it first started out, it was the dining room for the previous owners.

Here’s a little look at how it was and how it is now:

First, it was just a super plain box of a room… basically everything has changed inside the walls of the original room. click here to read the rest of the story…

Posted in Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, DIY - Crafts - Floral, Floors, Furniture, Hallway, Home Office, Interior Windows, Library, Paint Treatments, Piano Room, Style and Theme, Uncategorized, Vignettes, Wall Treatments, Window Treatments, Windows

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Tags: glass, home office, home to cottage, hometocottage, inspiration, Joann Fabrics, library, piano, window

Someone Else’s House: Vintage Bungalow Sun-Drenched 2nd Floor Office

Jun 3

Posted by LIz

Back to the craftsman style vintage bungalow… today I’m going to show you the transformation of the second floor office.

When this house was purchased late last year, the previous owners used this room as Click here to read the rest of the story…

Posted in Bedroom, Floors, Furniture, Library, Paint Treatments, Re-purposing, Rugs, Someone Else's House, Uncategorized, Vignettes, Window Treatments

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Tags: bungalow, craftsman, decorate with a little bit, DecorateWithaLittleBit, Desk, Hirshfield's, minneapolis, office, Pier 1, rug, st. paul, twin cities, vintage

Our House: Master Bedroom Eclectic Furniture Finishes

May 27

Posted by LIz

I love a room with a mixture of furniture finishes, painted, distressed, wood grains, all of them. I find that if a room has all the same wood finishes, I get bored to death, and it’s impossible at that point to bring in something different, because it’s the only thing that is different, so it’ll stick out like a sore thumb!

So instead, I constantly mix it up. The key is to figure out how to balance those different finishes within the room. And to balance it with what the room itself has going on.

So for example in our master bedroom, the walls, ceiling, doors and trim are all painted wood. So if all my furniture finishes were painted wood it’d be just as boring to me as those rooms where people have all wood grain finished trim, doors, floors and all their furnishings are wood… (I have friends that have that, and I have a confession to make, when I go to visit them sometimes I get lost imagining painting their trim and some of their furniture!) click here to read the rest of the story…

Posted in Bedroom, Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, Furniture, Paint Treatments, Style and Theme, Uncategorized, Vignettes, Wall Treatments

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Tags: bedroom, eclectic, furniture, HomeGoods, hometocottage, painted, stained, Target, wood