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Top 10 Books about Cottage Style
Guide Picks
Looking for some great books on decorating and design? Here are our top picks for books about Cottage Style. We've also included links to help you find the cheapest online book sources for these books. Browse away to your heart's content!
1) Cottage Style by Denise L. Caringer
Give any space the look of a summer cottage with the decorating ideas in this book. Lovely photos make it a great coffee table and gift book too.


2) Garden Style by Better Homes and Gardens, Linda Hallam
Buy this book for the lovely photographs, pulled from Better Homes and Gardens publications. You'll be surprised at the number of garden looks that are shown and may have a difficult time choosing just one for your home.


3) Garden Style Projects: Decorating Ideas for Indoors and Out
If you've wanted a fountain, slipcovers, or pillows for a garden room, then this is the book for you. Find instructions, tips, photos, and ideas, from Better Homes and Gardens.


4) Garden Room Style by Peter Marston
A gorgeous book to browse for garden room ideas. Full to the brim with photographs of garden rooms large and small, fancy and plain.


5) The Garden Room : Bringing Nature Indoors
Explore garden style in this book that features twenty examples of rooms devoted to indoor/outdoor decorating. You'll be inspired to create a beautiful indoor garden room retreat. By Timothy Mawson and Ivan Terestchenko.


6) The New Cottage Home by Jim Tolpin
Yes, even new construction can be interesting! Explore 30 new cottage style homes that celebrate living in not-too-big spaces, with comfy nooks, and visually appealing architectural elements.


7) The Illustrated Cottage
Follow the creation of a unique cottage home, transformed by murals in the trompe l'oeil style, using a French Provencal theme and fictional characters that bring the space to life. The full title: The Illustrated Cottage: A Decorative Fairy Tale Inspired by Provence by Nina Williams.


8) The Perfect Country Cottage by Bill Laws
This author offers a view of cottages found worldwide, looking at rooms and elements, gardens and greenhouses.


9) Cottage Living by Ellen M. Plante
The author offers vacation living ideas including cottage looks and Scandanavian style.


10) Second Home: Find Your Place in the Fun
Whether you use this book as a guide to second homes or as a decorating idea book is up to you. Either way you'll probably enjoy this offering from Better Homes and Gardens.


 ~ Glenna Morton
 
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• English Style
• Provence
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• Spring Projects
• Home Decor Quiz!
 
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