Cottage Chic
by habituallychic
07 . 01 . 10
I saw photos of this cute little cottage on photographer Douglas Friedman‘s website and finally did a little investigating about it. Turns out that it belongs to Cove Landing (995 Lexington Avenue, 212-288-7597) co-owner Angus Wilkie and was featured on one of Martha Stewart‘s house tours. It was built in the early 19th-century and looks like the perfect kind of place to spend the long 4th of July holiday weekend. I also love that they left the glue covered plaster walls as they appeared after paper was removed from them. It’s an interesting contrast to the collection of engravings and Biedermeier furniture. I think most people would have also bought the place and knocked it down to build a McMansion so it’s also a testament to the keen eye and fabulous design sense of Angus Wilkie. As Marta would say, “it’s a good thing.” Enjoy!
Photos by Douglas Friedman
32 Comments
How charming! I love all the fresh, white linens. Chic and yet home-y at the same time.
xx Katie
My oh my, so much inspiration from this little cottage! I’m not feeling the choice of bed, though. Feels a tad out of place in the context of the rest of the home.
MT
So lovely! I would have never dreamed of leaving the glue on the walls as they did – but it looks great. Love the black and white flooring in the kitchen – just did a post on this kind of flooring yesterday. Truly a gem of a cottage!
XO Piper
Cottages are the best! ADORABLE!
Love the Stag Ferns in the last image of the porch – really clever re-interpretation of their use in the 1970s – but this looks stunning!
utterly lovely & amazing.
love!
xo,
sylvie of silver lining
Simple fabulousness.
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I’ve always loved their house…the perfect summer retreat (or better yet, all year round retreat).
I also had glue-walls in my former house and actually did a post on them a while back (spured on by these images)…I loved them and wish I could’ve re-created them for the new house…but it takes years and years and more years!
Happy Fourth!!!
Pure heaven! KG
What an amazing cottage. And love the glue on the walls too! x
My favorite house EVER. Love it!
It’s the perfect little summer house! I love it.
What a lovely country home. Love the dark floors, black trim and distressed walls. I agree, it would have been a shame to tear it down for larger, but certainly not better.
Cheers,
Claudia
Lovely and utterly charming! Next thursday I will be featuring a small charmer on a small island in Norway…please check it out: christapirl.blogspot.com!
what a beautiful houses,
i looove all of them!!
greetings from spain
Stunning house, I wish the glue on my walls had looked that good!
What a beautiful cottage, I too love how the plaster walls were left where the wallpaper was. A beautiful and charming touch! Thank you for investigating and sharing with us.
LOVE LOVE LOVE that stone wall – oh how i wish i could have a stone wall!!!! .. wouldn’t “fit” into my neighborhood :o(
PS – come by and pick up YOUR award!!!!
*kiss kiss*
Erika
~Tiptoe Butterfly~
so, so darling! who doesn’t love a good cottage?
I guess All Good Things DOES Come in Small Packages after all….
Happy Weekend,
Northern Light
yeah really beautiful ! love the openness and the light!!!
I think that I could move right in. The early 19th c. furniture–but with a pop, is fantastic. The chairs on the up stairs landing are great-I’ve never seen anythign quite like them (and I’m a chair-coholic).
Have a great 4th of July–going to the Hamptons?
Mary
Love it! I just visited a ca. 1880’s cottage community here in Tennessee and posted cottage pics that made me happy also.
I agree that someone with much less vision and depth would have knocked this little gem down.
Absolutly charming! I like the hanging system for pictures, also the crisp palette.
Perfection if ever I saw it.
stunning stunning!! i want to be there right now reading…
happy 4th!
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I love every room of this house, it truly is a thing of beauty. Thanks for sharing.
This is a wonderful example of a cottage with such bold use of color! Thanks so much for sharing! It’s very inspiring at a time when I am still trying to resist the urge to coat everything in my 1920s cottage in white.
I absolutely LOVE this, thank you so much for posting it!
So inspirational! (But I have to admit that I would have to add something that looked comfortable to sit in!)
What a dear & precious place. It is a little jewel box.
This is truly devine, with so much thought having gone into every aspect of the house’s decoration.