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Cozy Cottage-Style Bedrooms

June 08, 2016
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Our cottage bedroom ideas will help create your own personal retreat. Make your room feel like a cozy country cottage when you mix calming pastels, pretty florals, and vintage accessories.
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Textural Tapestry

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Add depth to a classic white-and-cream cottage palette by playing with textiles. Here, a family heirloom quilt of many colors sits atop the bed while crisp white sheets perk up when topped with a mix of patterned pillows. The simple matte finish on a painted side table takes on an elegant patina when finished with ornate drawer pulls and topped with fresh flowers. More vintage cottage decor dresses the walls and furniture, making this space feel pieced together from a flea market.

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Gorgeous in Green

Modern cottage decor like an acrylic bedside table mingle with galvanized tubs filled with extra pillows in this cozy bedroom. The white-washed wood floors are warmed up with a fuzzy faux-fur rug and a sleek slipper chair. Touches of vibrant green appear on the curtains, bedside lamp, and linens to add a hint of fresh color to the otherwise all-white space. In this room, the sage accent color matches other elements around the home, but you can choose a different stand-out color that better suits your style.

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Cozy Haven

Pull cottage decorating ideas from vintage photos, clothes, or artwork passed down in your family. Piled with natural linens, this cottage bed gets a boost from a framed child's dress above the headboard. The personal touch adds meaning to the space while providing the inspiration for a color palette. Soft neutrals carry throughout for a relaxed rustic look, while natural fabrics and materials contribute snug texture.

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Colorful Retreat

Add warmth with cottage-style bedroom furniture that features a natural wood finish. Here, wood accents, including a headboard, bench, flooring, and nightstand, ground this vibrant cottage bedroom filled with punchy primary colors. Ticking stripes on the curtains pair with a floral quilt for a touch of subtle pattern. Mimic the look of vintage furniture by distressing wood elements with sandpaper or coating a wood finish with a dark stain.

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Master the Cottage Look

The best thing about cottage style is that is can be customized to fit almost any personality. Whether you are flirty feminine, or love a rustic wood dresser, there is a cozy look just for you. Discover the essence of cottage-style decorating and how to capture the look in your bedroom.

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Layered Look

Modern cottage bedroom ideas are hard to come by, but this colorful space proves an updated palette is all it takes. A luxe headboard earns statement status for this full-size cottage bed. Its punchy floral print easily blends with modern geometric patterns in a variety of bold colors. Striped floors, painted with latex porch and floor paint, give a fun, tough-as-nails finish. This is the perfect look for a creative teen or vibrant guest room.

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Comfortable Elegance

The best French cottage bedroom ideas come from the romantic country itself. Here, a French zinc awning doubles as a fashionable canopy in this cozy cottage bedroom. Chippy paint on the bed frame, side table, and accessories provides pretty patina, while neutral bedding with layers of ruffles adds texture. Each element looks like it could have been pulled from right from the cobblestone streets of Paris or found in the cottages of the countryside.

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Texture Play

Set a contemporary cottage mood with a stand-out accent wall. A floor-to-ceiling wood panel wall instantly grabs attention. Matching wood elements, such as a handlettered sign above the bed and a dresser side table, continue the wood look. The key to this bedroom's fresh look is an eclectic mix of traditional and modern cottage decor that don't take themselves too seriously. Graphic silhouette-style accent pillows deliver a whimsical exclamation point to the rustic room.

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Dynamic Duo

Cottage bedrooms are more than rustic cottage decor; crisp, clean lines are also on-trend for cottage style. Outfitted with a charming pair of queen-size bunk beds, each with its own television, this guest bedroom keeps things casual. White furnishings, accented with gray and blue, give the gulfside cottage space carefree spirit. A large window without coverings allows for maximum light to shine into the room, bouncing off the white walls and filling the space.

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Mix Master

Most cottage-style decorating ideas come from flea markets, giving the look a mix and match feel. Take advantage of this benefit by only purchasing elements that really speak to you, versus a set of matching side tables that don't hold much character. This cottage bed's iron frame beckons guests to snuggle under a generous bounty of mismatched linens, including a duvet fashioned from vintage woodland fabric. White-panel walls handily highlight plaid wall sconces.

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Simple Pleasure

White seems to be the color of choice for cottage-style enthusiasts. A clean color palette allows for play with texture and accent colors, but it can come off as unoriginal. However, there are ways to make an all-white room seem less like a hospital and more live a living, breathing, space. An inherited four-poster wood bed adds warmth to layers of white linens in this master bedroom. A secondhand pendant light sparkles over a curvaceous dresser; a white denim slipcover dresses a chair for a mix of pretty and practical.

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Feminine Flair

A headboard built from vintage closet doors steals the spotlight in this cottage bedroom. A flea market chandelier and wall sconce add French elegance to the space along with plenty of ruffles and a pastel palette of washed-out blues and pinks.

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Neutral Oasis

Many cottage-style decorating ideas pass on color for a mix of warm, cozy neutrals. Soft taupe and cream toile fabric adorns the windows and headboard in this bedroom. An iron chandelier painted the same mocha color as the walls and a carved wooden mirror finished with off-white paint match the romance of the fabric.

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Wall Perks

Wrap a bedroom in quintessential cottage character with a painted paneled wood treatment. Instead of the expected beaded board, run a strip of 1-inch-thick molding from floor to ceiling between a room's crown molding and baseboard, leaving a foot between each piece of trim. Paint the walls and trim the same color to achieve an-always-been-there look. Despite the textured walls, decorate the room as you normally would, hanging pictures, wicker, and shelves over the wood strips for a layered look.

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Cool Canopy

Soften the edges of a hard bed frame with a simple, romantic canopy treatment. Drape yards of inexpensive sheer white fabric over two swing-arm curtain rods, allowing the fabric to cascade in waterfall style around the headboard. Bunch the fabric together for a full-effect and edge it with white pom-pom trim for a flirty finish. Continue the soft look in the bed linens with a ruffled bed skirt and sheer pillow cases.

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Seaside Fresh

Cottage homes can be found anywhere in the world, even seaside. Evoke oceanside serenity with crisp turquoise accents layered on a sea of white. Shades of gray found on cottage-style bedroom furniture, including painted side tables, a striped floor rug, and a cotton throw, keep this bright palette from floating away.

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Casual Elegance

A checkered quilt, used as a ceiling-high headboard, introduces instant vintage appeal to this master bedroom. The soft blue of the pattern in the quilt is echoed by chalky milk paint on a primitive armoire and a distressed finish on a curvaceous antique Swedish bench at the foot of the bed.

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Blue Boudoir

Layers of sky blue and white bedding lend this guest room a warm and welcoming air. A lightly ruffled bed skirt and the scalloped edges of a blanket introduce a simple sweetness that's echoed by silk lampshades and a dreamy sheep rendered in oil paints above the bed. To make the cottage style decor feel more grounded, wood elements in this room have darker red tones to them. Continued in tables and frames around the room, the dark wood provides a needed contrast.

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Mix Master

Cottage style is all about the mix—not the match—as illustrated in this bedroom, where damask-style curtains frame a bed dressed in a pink geometric-pattern duvet that's topped with an assortment of vibrant accent pillows. Vintage side tables and a curvy French bench keep the modern mix of patterns feeling comfortable and cozy.

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Terrific Toile

In a cottage-style bedroom, it's hard to go overboard with toile. Whether you use a little or a lot, this classic French print exudes a comforting elegance. This bedroom tempers an abundance of toile wallpaper with a bed dressed and crowned in white fabrics. A bed ruffle subtly reintroduces the print down low, bringing the use of the pattern full circle. Rustic cottage decor, like a wood stump painted and used as a stool, brings a woodland quality to this guest  bedroom.

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