Here's how you can create your own cottage style studio space.
1. Ensure there's lots of light; use spare window coverings, paint walls white, open doors.
2. Spark your creativity by surrounding yourself with tools of the trade: papers, paints, artists' brushes, etc.
3. Indulge in a comfy seating area for visitors (or you!).
4. Keep existing elements. The wagon wheel suspended from the cabin's ceiling is now a chandelier for votive candles.
5. Go reclaimed with storage. Use old china pots, enamelware shelves, picture frames, etc.
6. Make the setting fit the job. A drafting board is the work area here, but it could easily be a potting bench, a sewing table or a writing desk.
What makes this space 'cottage style'?
- Unfinished or well-worn edges for patina
- Natural elements used in whimsical ways
- Romantic painted furniture and floors
- A love of heirlooms
- Utilitarian 'found' pieces used as decorative accents
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