Color, pattern and flexibility of cottage style stripes make this an easy look to achieve. Cottage doesn’t rise or fall on a consistent color scheme or require orthodoxy on surfaces or overall style. Its strength is its ability to be a little bit of this and that and still work visually. That means colorful cottage style stripes [top] in a kitchen sink skirt can happily exist … [Read more...]
High Wire Acts
Chicken wire mesh fills in for glass on cabinets and works perfectly for display. The French way of idealizing farm house life has long included chicken wire mesh on cabinet and armoire doors. The mesh -- of chicken coop fame -- is open and relatively flexible. Unlike protective screening found on pie safes or bread boxes it's great in dry spaces and quite elegant on a shallow … [Read more...]