Decorate Your Cottage for the Exciting Fall Season!

There is no better place to enjoy the fall season than at the cottage where you can embrace the comfortable weather and nature’s changing colors. The cottage is the perfect place to do all of your family’s traditions like bobbing for apples, making jam, and baking a sweet homemade apple pie! Get your secret getaway ready this season with fall colors, rugged furniture, and geometric patterns to greet your guests and family in style! Here’s how:

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 No Matching! – Combine Geometric Patterns

Forget all the rules when it comes to patterns – floral, plaid, and fur suddenly match and are a great way to get a cottage look. The key to make a mixture of patterns and colors work is to try and keep the colors consistent. For example, if you have brown and red hues in your Persian rug, try to match the same color with the stripes on your plaid pillows and the fuzzy wool throw on your sofa.

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Mix up Your Furniture

Wicker furniture doesn’t always need to be for the porch – designers are now brining in this tough furniture indoors. Remember that opposites always attract and the same thing comes to décor as well. You can create balance by paring opposites like glossy furniture with antique or weathered wicker. This mix up transforms a space and makes it feel like a real cottage – comfortable but beautiful.

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Welcome in Natural Elements

The most charming and distinctive feature of a cottage is the enormous amount of wood used. From wood flooring, wooden paneling, wood beams, and wooden furniture, using wood throughout your cottage is what sets it apart from a real home. Get the feeling of camping with distressed wooden furniture, faux furs, antlers, and even coffee tables made from logs.

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Weathered and Antiqued Furniture

To transform your furniture from prim and proper to cottage ready all you need is a sheet of sandpaper and some muscle power! Distressed and weathered furniture is a key element to cottage-style décor. Instead of searching estate sales and flea markets for the perfect piece, work with what you have. Take your sandpaper and rough up the edges of your furniture to add a little character and style.

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