Tickets for November 4th and 5th Roses and Rust Vintage Market are available at the Cottage now. Stop by and get your tickets, avoid the lines and online ticket sale fees!
While in an Irish museum we discovered two types of antique zinc tubs like the ones we sell at the Cottage. It was fun finding out how they were used for doing laundry. Irish lace is unrivaled, went looking for some last month while we were […]
Our trip was memorable, so much to see, so much history….and shopping? well it was amazing! Unfortunately as lovely and rare the things we saw were, most were too big to bring home, though we managed to bring some of the great stuff we found.
A rare Victorian garden edger with all four symbols of the British Isles. Usually there was so much conflict between them they didn’t include every symbol in one decoration! A rainy day in Dublin For the avid stukadoor: Three generations of family collected these molds in Ireland
This amazing iron piece would make a unique headboard, it’s big enough for a King size bed. Or, it would be equally grand installed as wall art. Its story is as unique and interesting as it looks. It was once an iron transit cover over an elevator from an early 1900’s building in New York City. […]
Large companies like IBM, Ford, AT&T, and nearly all major financial institutions use blue in their brands…Blue evokes trust, strength, loyalty. Other brands use blue for more practical reasons: Facebook’s Mr. Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind, and web hyperlinks are blue because in the early days of the Internet it was the only color (other than […]
Weather is cooling, there’s a crispness in the early morning air, we think Fall must be on its way! And with Fall come all the holidays and festivals that give us an opportunity to bring out and display all the cherished decorations we’ve collected. At the Cottage we’ve started with […]
These lovely guilded boxes are just the thing to keep your special pieces of jewelry.
These beautiful and delicate vintage wedding cake toppers are sure to bring their own kind of magic to the centerpiece of your celebration; making the traditional cake-cutting ceremony even more special!
Although it is by some considered more of a “man cave” decor style, using beautifully-mounted taxidermy has become more popular in today’s interior design circles… Here is a sample of some of the options we have to offer that will add drama and interest to your decor project. […]