CULTIVATING MY COTTAGE DESIGN

Home is the nicest word there is. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Welcome back to the Cottage Letterbox. In this video, I'm going to be giving you four cottage decor ideas. I have spent the last couple of months cultivating my cottage core design and I would love to share these pieces with you today. I like how the cottage core design can look different for each person. One can live in a cottage by the sea, or the countryside, or even the big woods. Each cottage is uniquely different from the other and is all about personal preference. My cottage style reminds me of an old farm cottage with lots of stones, flowers, baskets, vintage dishes, and old books. What is your cottage style? Comment down below. I feel like flowers are a big part of the cottage core design. If you look throughout all the cottage core designs, you will see floral prints and flowers. You will see fresh flowers cut to put in vases all around the house. You will see all sorts of dried flowers stuck everywhere. And I do believe the fresh cut flowers and the dried flowers, any type of flower really, fits in with the old cottage design. Flowers are the way to go in whatever cottage core design you choose. Old books fit into my design very well. I think an old book can bring so much value to your home. I was so very excited when I found this Jane Eyre novel on Amazon. If you didn't know, growing up as a teenager, Jane Eyre was one of my favorite books. I was so thrilled when I saw this beautiful floral print on Amazon. I wanted to get it to lay out in my future home so that my company could come over and see something valuable on the table and maybe flip through it. And not only is it a beautiful piece, they could also pick it up and read it and enjoy it just as much as I have enjoyed it in the past. So I am also trying to collect beautiful magazines like a very new magazine called Cottage Core. It has very pleasing covers to look at and has slow life living skills. I have been very obsessed with baskets lately. I love a good sturdy basket to actually be able to carry things in. My mom has promised me an old picnic basket and I am going to take her up on it. Baskets are so very easy to thrift. You can buy a good basket for a dollar or a couple of cents at the Salvation Army or different thrift stores. I have been collecting different colors and sizes of baskets to fit into my old farm cottage design. Dresses are a big part of my design. I love the floral print dresses that flow and have movement to them. When you twirl around they fluff out. I just love the whimsical romantic dresses that have floral prints on them. I do buy these beautiful dresses. I always go to the clearance section and I found this beautiful black dress in the clearance section at Belk for five or six dollars. It really wasn't that much but it just gives me farm cottage vibes. This pink one I found at TJ Maxx's and this one I found at Old Navy and it has a hint of embroidered flowers on it. I love it. These dresses are very much in style now and you can find them just about anywhere. You can even find them at the thrift store. Vintage dishes are my last item. There's just something very unique about a vintage dish. They're always so different. Each piece is never the same and each one has so much character. This little saucer was given to me by my babysitter growing up for my future house and it's just so pretty. I just love the delicate edges and just the hint of green on the edges. It is just so unique and beautiful. If you have enjoyed this cottagecore content today, please subscribe down below and give this video a thumbs up. My name is Abigail and I will continue to make content like this. I hope you have an amazing weekend and figure out your cottagecore design that you really love and comment down below if you have already. See y'all next time!