Classic Cottages

Takes a close-up look at the design, architectural details, decorating possiblities, furnishings, and accessories of a wide array of cottages throughout North America, along with 170 full-color photographs and a host of historical and cultural trivia about the cottage home.

The Classic Cottages lifestyle relaxes the soul and welcomes family and friends to retreat in a comfortable space of simplicity and charm.

This collection of 18 essays, including one by Nobel Prize winning author J.M. Coetzee, explores the fascinating and nuanced relationship between translation and the classic text.

"Vintage Cottages" picks up where Molly Hyde English's tremendouslyuccessful "Camps and Cottages" left off-with unique and personalized decorocused on second homes and retreats with a vintage cottage theme. These "intage retreats" represent a way to reconnect with a time of simplebundance and down-to-earth values. They are serene and peaceful placesilled with art, books, color, scents, textures and memories that link toife's experiences, relationships and hopes. "Vintage Cottages" shows how to "ome home" to a serene retreat that's unlike anything else.

Surveys the types of homes found in twenty American small towns, and discusses house plans, features, and structural forms

Architect and author Chapin describes existing pocket neighborhoods and co-housing communities while providing inspiration for creating new ones.

Old, elegant homes taking guests. Daily or weekly rentals, Maps.

Discover design inspiration as a photographer and blogger details the story of her renovation of a 1940s cottage in the California countryside. A little, abandoned vacation house that could, set in the center of rolling fields and trees becomes the cottage home of her dreams. A French country–style cottage filled with original elements and an exquisite mix of rustic and refined. The years of renovation allowed Courtney to create a lifestyle that is fueled by inspiration and beauty, a touch of whimsy, and an abundance of everyday elegance. The journey has been shared on her popular blog French Country Cottage, and now, through the publication of her first book, her readers will experience a reveal of more of her home and property and the inspirations behind her beloved style. Courtney's inspiring photography reveals every nuance of her style and home including a muted color palette, old brassy door knobs, chippy paint, antiques, her greenhouse and garden, and an abundance of entertaining and holiday decorating style. Blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor and embracing well-worn as well loved, French Country Cottage is a style that celebrates simplicity, indulges in romance, cherishes pieces with history and believes a chandelier and fresh flowers belong in every room.