The Natural Cozy Cottage: 100 Styling Ideas to Create a Warm and Welcoming Home

by Christiane Bellstedt Myers

Create a haven of coziness and calm that embraces you as you walk through the door with Chris Myers’ effortless styling ideas and tips.

Taking a room-by-room approach, Chris describes the essentials of creating coziness from the colors to use, the textiles to incorporate, the decorative accessories and lighting to include, and how to bring a sense of personality and uniqueness to your own space. Using natural, or pre-loved and re-purposed objects is an important element of this ethos. Wherever you live, in an urban apartment, town house, or country cottage, Chris will inspire you to bring comfort and happiness into your space whether by creating a welcoming wreath for the front door made from foraged items, kitchen curtains made from old vintage quilts, eco-friendly natural cleaning products, or lavender bags and scented candles…

Your home will become a sanctuary, a home for the soul surrounded by the things you love, a place you will long to return to at the end of the day and one that is kind to the planet too.

Genres: Nonfiction, Design, Interior Design

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2022

Reviews

[Sally · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you love old, vintage, quilts, flowers, beautiful houses and gardens with the most gorgeous photography then this is the book for you. Whilst reading it I had a notebook and pencil with me and kept jotting down lots of ideas and inspirations. This is a book I will refer back to again and again. Chris comes across as a person I would love to just sit in her beautiful garden and drink tea and just chat to.

[Putu Sita Witari · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm very novice to the subject of cottages, gardening, and home decor. However, I'm very lucky to meet this book because it introduces me to the creative way of making a cosy home with whatever is ready in nature or around us. There are not only a hundred styling ideas to create a warm and welcoming home, but it has snippets of the life story of the author which adds more value and 'touch' to every beautiful creation or design shown on every page.

This book is divided into two sections, the cosy rooms and the cosy outside. I found how each chapter in every section is titled based on the function of each room, reminding me of how necessary to spare those rooms within or outside the house to maximise or give us more chances to experience beauty based on the room's main purpose. That is such a clever idea to dedicate rooms/spaces inside and outside my home to my overall well-being. After all, home is our visible sanctuary that needs our attention and vice versa.

Highly recommended book!

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm going to be very generous and give this 3 stars because it's a beautiful book, BUT it's ridiculously repetitive. Over and over again there was more than one photo of basically the same thing and the narrative is also horribly repetitive. What on earth? I've NEVER encountered it in a decorating book to this degree before.

[Ashley Nicole Hunter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is attainable, realistic, BEAUTIFUL cottage styling. I was especially fond of the easy craft sections that added authentic, homey touches to your own place (like an under-the-sink cover or a mail slot cover).

Best of all, this book wasn't filled with Ikea-esque white-upon-white (who would EVER be able to realistically keep all that white clean in a cottage?).

[Tracie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful design book. SO many ideas, it's very inspirational. There are some lovely quilts, beautiful settings indoors and outside. It will be a reference book this summer. Nice photos Shirlie!! Absolutely love this book.

[Christany]

Personal Notes: 1.5 - not quite what I'm looking for

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very beautiful place to look through, and the projects seem manageable.

[Trish · Rating 4 out of 5]

A cute cottage book.

[Madelyne! · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty cottage decor including diy's

[Kathleen Messmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the ideas in this book. Some pretty cool recipes and instructions as well. If you like cozy, you'll love this book.

[Jessi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite aesthetically pleasing.

[Sue · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely must get my own copy of this (this one is from the library) and a beautiful cottage to go with the book would be great. Full of lovely ideas and just a lovely ook to have

[Jenny K · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some nice ideas in this cottage style book.

[Megan Gery · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beautiful pictures, but I’m more than a little worried the author is going to burn her house down with her candle obsession.

[Debbie Gilbert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful book!

[Kez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting book, pictures were amazing and some good little tips along the way.

[Dawn Foster · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hmmm, I could live in this book!!! All the white, the vintage EVERYTHING, the red linens .....