Product Description

Vintage Cottages
Molly Hyde English
Photographs by Tom Lamb
Vintage Cottages features unique and personalized decor focused on second homes and retreats with a vintage cottage theme. These places are filled with art, books, color, scents, textures and memories that link to life's experiences, relationships and hopes. Vintage Cottages shows how to "come home" to a serene retreat that's unlike anything else. Includes chapters on homes by the sea, mountain retreats, vintage gardens, vintage decor and collections, plus comprehensive resources.
Author owns and operates Camps and Cottages, a popular store in Laguna Beach, California. She is also a regional contributor to Country Home magazine.
40% of all home sales in the U.S. are now second or vacation homes.
Country or cottage style continues to be the hottest and most popular design style.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #140052 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-23
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

From the Inside Flap
The simple, unique and interestingly appointed cottage is a place for escape, ?lled with art, books, color, scents, sounds, textures and memories.
It is a repository for keepsakes and dreams that help bridge past with future. While today technology forces us to think only in terms of productivity, leanness and speed, many of us have begun to pull in the reins, re-explore our goals, challenge our assumptions and seek a lifestyle that captures a strong sense of coherence and tradition. Central to that new approach is a renewed sense of "home."
See how cottage owners are breaking with tradition and lending a new look to their humble spaces. Differing in style, color, regional taste and liveliness, the cottages showcased are tied together by a delicate thread that honors tradition while looking forward to a lifestyle that is uncluttered, unhurried and re?ective of rugged, unapologetic individuality. As you develop your own special place-your own "vintage cottage," may you capture a new idea from those who have graciously opened their doors to these unique homes.
As both a store owner and stylist, Molly Hyde English, owner of Camps and Cottages, has worked with designers and home owners for more than ten years in their pursuit of furniture, artwork and period decorative pieces, both old and newly crafted, reminiscent of cottage and lodge living made popular between 1920 and 1940. She is the author of Camps and Cottages, and her work has been featured in Country Home, House Beautiful, the San Francisco Chronicle, the book division of Sunset Books and she has appeared on episodes of HGTV featuring her homes in Berkeley and Laguna Beach in California.
As a documentary landscape, architectural and ethnographic photographer, Tom Lamb's focus is with concerns for the environment and the need to create a balance between conservation, preservation, tourism, and development. Tom holds a Master in Fine Arts degree in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has lectured and taught at numerous schools across the country as well as traveling photographic and design workshops and lectures in West Africa, Mexico, South America, China and Tibet. His photographic work is widely published and collected.

About the Author
Molly Hyde English is the founder of Camps and Cottages, a retail store with locations in southern California. She is a regional contributor to Country Home magazine, and her work has been featured in Country Home, House Beautiful, Home, Garden Design, and Woman's Day; she has also appeared on various HGTV programs.

Customer Reviews

Vintage, yes, but also too cutesy, too styled.
I had high expectations for this book. Had I realized it was written by the same author as Camps and Cottages, I may have thought twice before I bought it.

Just like its sister book, Camps and Cottages, Vintage Cottages features California cottages exclusively. That should have been reflected in the title or subtitle.

Secondly, the photography disappointed. Too many little heavily styled micro views of bookcases and table tops. I longed for wider shots to get a better sense of the whole house.

And last, the spaces feel artificial to me. A heavy stylist's hand is evident in many of the photos. There is even an obvious product placement of the author's other book, Camps and Cottages.

If you are interested in real vintage cottages, spaces where people really live, the book to get is The Cottage Book: Living Simple and Easy.

VINTAGE COTTAGES
I HATE THIS BOOK!! THIS WAS A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT--IT SHOULD BE CALLED VINTAGE CABINS. WHEN I THINK OF " VINTAGE COTTAGES " I THINK OF QUAINT VICTORIAN TYPE DWELLINGS. THE MAJORITY OF PHOTOS IN THIS BOOK DEPICT RUSTIC, BACK WOODS, NORTHERN CABIN TYPE HOMES. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK. THE BEST PART OF THIS BOOK IS THE COVER.

Vintage Cottages for Dog Lovers
We love this book. So many excellent ideas. Our family being animal people, absolutely love that this book is dedicated to Buddy who happened to be at the right place at the right time. The cottages are beautiful as well as the landscapes and the celebration of four-legged friends is a beautiful plus!

This is an item we accidentally happened upon due to recommendation from previous purchases. We will certainly integrate some of the ideas in our tiny cottage as well with much enthusiasm. Very nice reading indeed and beautiful photography. It sits with pride on our coffee table for when the need for inspiration hits.