Oh how I love a white cottage! Be still my beating heart. I’ve shared several white cottages on this blog, including this lovely and this white farmhouse beauty.
Oh, how I adore a wrap around porch … DREAMY! Can you imagine sitting out there in the morning with your coffee watching the world go by?
I am in love with real, authentic, working shutters. And gas lanterns? Nothing like the ambience of a lantern!
Love the wood front door and the welcoming front porch!
So much to love about this cottage kitchen…subway tile, wood counters, open shelves, the lighting, farmhouse sink, red barstools? The details are all so charming! I’d love to spend the day in there baking while my blogging friends sat on the barstools sampling treats, laughing and catching up on life!
A creative concealment! I knew I loved this house. That shutter is hiding an electrical panel!
Love the simplicity of this room, I adore the red beds!
Sigh! A potting shed! Can you imagine yourself there working in your garden?
Hope this dreamy white cottage has inspired you today as much as it inspires me!
You may not live in anything like this, but it is fun to dream isn’t it?
this post was originally featured June 2009
images: My Home Ideas.com
What a gem. Love the working shutters. One of my requirements if I ever own a house with shutters.
It looks brand spanking new – is it a show house? The details are so well thought out – gas lamps yet! I’d settle for the potting shed…
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I absolutely love this home! Love old farmhouse or victorian Queen Anne’s.
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Hi Melissa – This is a beautiful house – I love the kitchen and the shutter electric panel. A nice way to start a Monday morning.
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maybe someday when the children are grown. >sigh< for know it's nice to dream…
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Oh that is my perfect home – just gorgeous x
I don’t usually gravitate to white…but in these cases it is beautiful.
That little potting shed stole my heart!
Becky K.
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WOW. thank you for sharing these amazing photos. I LOVE the pops of red throughout. You’ve given me a push to do something a bit over the edge for me. thanks.
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Amazing – I love everything about it! I would get so much baking, gardening, and reading done in that house (once I stopped staring at how beautiful everything is, of course)!
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Could this house be any cuter? I love the kitchen and i love the potting shed. I would move in tomorrow ;)
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All I can say is…………SOLD!
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Sigh….SO lovely! My parents just put an offer on a cottage on Guemes Island (I’m guessing YOU know where that is :) I keep begging my mom to let me go thrifting with her to outfit the kitchen, etc….and she’s adamant that she’s going to use the Shabby Chic line from Target :) So, so lovely- thank you for sharing pictures!
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Love the shutters, love the red beds too. Oh definitely dreaming this morning.
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Oh, it’s all so perfect, but my favorite things are the shutter and the potting shed is to die for!!! Thank you for sharing this little piece of heaven.
Our whole family loves this house. DH loves the wraparound porch. And my daughter said “I hope we can buy that house before someone else does” I had to tell her I don’t think it is for sale and I don’t even know where it is. :)
LOVE wrap around porches! And yes, I CAN see myself out there in the morning having my coffee and watching the birds and waving at the neighbors and . . . .sigh
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I really love white cottages/homes. There are some wonderful ones on Martha’s Vineyard, with gardens to die for! Those red beds stole my heart though.
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We lived in a white farmhouse with a wraparound porch when I was in middle school. I loved that house and dream of having a place like it. Lots of big rooms, shutters w/ bats behind them (!), nooks and crannies. It was amazing.
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I LOVE this cottage. I love everything white. Kitchens, baths, bedrooms, houses…*sigh* Why do I have dogs.
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Can I live there??? Love it!
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Ah, that potting shed. I must have that in my back yard. I must.
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So pretty! I love, love that red shutter! Great post!!!
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I love that potting shed…I dream of potting sheds!!!!
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Please reveal where this house is; I’m stopping on my way home from work to pick up boxes and start packing…
Oh my, I am right there with you on the white cottage.
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Your post had me craving a little deep south landscape inspiration for our new house, so I set out to look up some great traditional neighborhoods I knew would have good landscaping. And what did I find? But your house for sale! It’s 32 Harford in the Hambersham neighborhood in Beaufort, SC. It can be yours for $479,000. http://www.habersham-32harford.com/wfPhotoGallery.aspx
I have to say I don’t care much for the earthy Tuscan colors in the family room – they seem quite out of place to me for the sunny Carolina coast. The staging also feels exceptionally, badly artificial to me. (“Oh yes, let me place my straw purse just so here at the foot of the bed beside this faux fern. I’ll be along in just a minute!”)
Oh my ~ my! Be still my singing heart. Simply lovely.
Smiles ~ Ramona
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Love the whole thing. Lottery, why can’t I win? Just kidding.
Contentment … I do love my home!
Fun post!
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i have several of those pictures in my archives….so inspiring!
We are on the same bloggy wavelength… only you’re so good, you keep beating me to it! First, patios and now white cottages. Two half-way written posts I’ll have to scrap!
Love this house! Lots of ideas I could incorporate into my own little (stuccobox) cottage.
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You took my dream home and put it into a post. It brought a tear to my eye…both for beauty and for the fact I don’t live in it!
I do have a white cottage and have thought about painting it a color but alway go back to liking the simplicity of the white – coming up with a color I will LOVE for awhile seems unrealistic for me! It seems for me, I never tire of simple, clean white – on anything! Love these images!
xo~Jill
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ahhhh….love this little white cottage! adorable!
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The house is fine and all, but, oh, that potting shed. Now, that is to die for. Perfection!
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Love, love love that house. Great idea to use the shutter to conceal that electrical panel, which they seem to put in the middle of a really great wall, everytime! By the way, my white slipcovers got started today. I can hardly wait for them to be finished. Thank you for your insight into them for me:)
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Good Morning Melissa!
I love this white cottage and especially love the potting shed – so dreamy!
I hope you have a beautiful day – thank you for sharing as always!
xo,
Kim
Love the shutter covering the electrical panel and the potting shed. Oh how I’d love to have a little potting shed!
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OMG what a sweet little cottage!!! The potting shed is divine….oh how I wish I only had one!!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!
~Des
Oh how I love a white cottage too!