The Soulful Cottage: An Exciting New Book Giveaway
Happy Monday! I’m excited to announce another amazing book by Fifi O’Neill! The Soulful Cottage is filled with beautiful rooms and ideas for creating the cottage look in your own spaces. Today I’m featuring one of the homes showcased in the book. One of my lucky readers can win a free copy of the book simply by leaving a comment at the end of this post. (Photography by Mark Lohman.)
This charming Woodstock, New York cottage belongs to interior designers Carlos Pagel and Carl Morton. They wanted a light and airy American cottage that reflects a country lifestyle through the use of florals and vintage items.
The cottage living room features built-in cabinetry and soft furnishings like the tufted loveseat and ruffled pillow. A salvaged trunk lends shabby chic appeal with a beautiful vase holding flowering branches.
A sweet kitty poses in front of the stone fireplace gracing the room with its 18-foot-high vaulted ceiling. You’ll see original artwork throughout the home.
It’s no surprise that Carlos and Carl were heavily inspired by designer Rachel Ashwell who brought shabby chic style to the forefront of the decorating world. Cream and white pair with shades of pastels throughout the home, including the cheery kitchen.
I can imagine how much fun it was collecting all the pastel China pieces. It feels like a fresh spring day in the cottage kitchen.
The adjoining dining nook introduces a pair of striped chairs in a vivid burgundy tone. A unique floor treatment is seen in the use of overlapping area rugs.
A gold heart was painted on an old door posing as art in the home’s hallway, mimicking the shape of the top of the little boudoir chair.
Soft stripes grace the walls of one of the romantic bedrooms with its pleasing mix of pastel pillows.
I’m completely smitten by the blue vase on the creamy vintage nightstand. I love its floral appliques.
The details on the lamp are truly impressive and intricate. What a great find! You’ll find numerous treasures like this throughout the pages of The Soulful Cottage.
Another bedroom features a darling wallpaper in one of my favorite colors. The sweet vintage dresser and mirror elevates the space in such a dreamy way. So cute!
The bathroom also features a pretty paper on the wall. The mirror is fantastic and the vanity with rounded edges is unique and appealing.
If you want to enter for a chance to win a free copy of The Soulful Cottage by Fifi O’Neill, leave a comment below. The winner will be chosen next Monday, February 23rd. Good luck!
I’d like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Fifi for always thinking of me and my readers when she launches a new book. It’s always a special moment to share her amazing talent!
You can purchase the book on Amazon if you can’t wait to find out if you win!
This made my morning! I love color and pastels, this quaint cottage is simply lovely!
I am currently trying tomake a new build look like an old cottage
I love all of Fifi’s books. Her styling and photos are a joy. I look through her books over and over again. This new one looks like no exception and I would love to win a copy.
No massed-produced items here! And it must have been fun to both seek out treasures and to stumble upon yesterday’s sweet finds. The unexpected being joined together makes for a peaceful canvas. And in a seemingly throwaway society this book guides us to appreciate, use and spotlight all things beautiful!!
I would love to be the new owner of The Soulful Cottage. I am hoping to redecorate my vintage Geneva home using florals and vintage with the color scheme of cream and white paired with pastels. Thank you for your wonderful articles.
Jewel
Looks like another great FiFi O’Neill book. Cottage books are always favorites.
Looks like a beautiful book! I would love to win it!
What a sweet, special cottage. I know that the book is fabulous! And on a separate note, I am so thrilled that I have discovered your blog Jennifer. Where have you been all my life? I look forward to it every day. Keep the inspiration coming.
Anything with FiFi’s name on it is an automatic win!
Jennifer, thank you for continuing to showcase shabby chic and more assessibly decorated homes on your blog. It’s fun to look at stunning, aspirational homes, but it’s even more fun to look at homes that became beautiful through grit and the owner’s creative spirit, not just an abundance of budget resources to complete a project. I am sure whoever wins the book will enjoy it immensely! Leslie
Certainly loved the cottage style in this blog!
What a pretty cottage! This book sounds like a good one. Thank you for the opportunity!
One of the things about looking at and relooking at the photos in decorating books is seeing furniture placement, and how it effects you. Living the scatoma of your own home, seeing but not seeing, gets a little jolt.
Three of the photos made me wonder why the furniture or placement bothered me.
Placing a sofa directly in front of a beautiful stone fireplace, facing away from the fireplace and hiding it seems odd to me, as well as the sofas not facing each other for conversation.
In the first bedroom the placement of the chair under the window impedes the flow around the bed. I would switch the table and chair placement and angle the chair, so it does not look so stark sticking out at right angles in such a soft space.
The chairs in the dining nook are too stark in colour against the soft pastels. I think a mid range aqua blue would reflect the softer blues in the room.
Being a visual person, I love looking, relooking and relooking at decorating books, absorbing ideas, inspiring me to relook at my own surroundings with a new eye.
I already won one of your great, generous giveaways so this comment won’t count for that! Fifi’s work is always sooo inspiring. This wonderful book seems to be more evidence of that. Looks like this book will continue her legacy of creative charm in decorating. And you, my dear, are equally inspiring and talented. Thank you.
My heart just soars looking at this house. So cozy and inviting. You can feel the love that went into it.
I love Fifi Oneals style. Would love to win her new book❤️
I have always adored Fifis work. Stunningly lovely cozy and fun! Welcomes you to enter and relax. S
What a lovely home! I have always admired Fifi’s work. Her designs are lovely, comforting and genteel. Homes you can live in! Thank you for sharing her work!
Stunning cozy and fun! Love Fifis cottages forever!
Each page you could just keep finding treasures so nice to see old come to life in this cute cottage.
Great photos! Thanks for the opportunity. This is my favorite look. Love it all!!
Looks like a lovely book!
Fifi is absolutely amazing!!! Her books are all so lovely, with stunning photos of beautiful and welcoming homes.
Everything is so pretty and cozy feeling in this home. I love her style. So very nice of her to give a great book like this to one lucky winner. I hope it’s me !
Oh my goodness, what a jewel box. This evoked feelings: (1) I feel like I just hung out with my favorite girls and my ‘girly’ cup is overflowing; (2) I feel like I time traveled back to a grandmother or aunt’s house that smelled like cookies, where you had the best nap of your life and you leave feeling loved and adored. ♥♥♥
I love the touches of pastel accents in this lovely cottage. Just what I need to bring a bit of early spring in our home. Expecting some snow here in N.C. this week but I can still bring a bit of spring inside.
Very beautiful with lots of personality!
The heart on the old door and the dish collection was awesome. This style always appeals to me regardless of what is current. To me it is timeless.
Thank you for sharing the lovely and romantic rooms.
I don’t usually like pastels but this is truly sweet and liveable.
I really love it.
Looks like a lovely book – fingers crossed!! 🙂
I love the soft colors and vintage finds. This cottage is so dreamyad
I’m a vintage gal through and through. I always look forward to your posts but I especially enjoyed this one. I’m in Michigan so we are both experiencing the same bitter cold right now. I love to hunker down and read and look through decor books. This one looks amazing.
Thanks for the opportunity to get her book!
I am new to this FiFi’s blog but am so excited to find it! I have always loved the cottage look but more along the line of rustic cottage looks. It brings so much warmth and nostalgia to today’s cookie cutter looks; I love the originality of the looks in this lovely rustic cottage. My parents own a shop filled with fantastic finds similar to the looks here and I always enjoyed decorating with my Mom in the shop. She has since passed but I never lost the excitement of cottage decor! I am now a new fan of yours!
Oh! I could just lose myself in that beautiful home! Love the soft, yet colorful decor. Thank you for sharing!
Love the colors, flowers, and above all, the resident kitty.
I’ve always admired Fifi’s style. Here book looks as if I’d dream all the way through it.
Soft beautiful colors. The aesthetics are just gorgeous. However, you should also have a little schnauzer sitting next to that precious kitty! Eileen
When I look at the kitchen, two words come to mind. Cheerful and sweet. The living room looks very comfy while still being very attractive. The bookshelves and stone fireplace are amazing. It’s a very sweet looking cottage overall.
I loved seeing the photos and reading the descriptions from The Soulful Cottage. Thanks for sharing this new book on your site.
It was lots of fun looking at the photos and reading the descriptions from The Soulful Cottage. Thanks for sharing this new book on your site.
Thank you for this gesture, both of you.
There is nothing I love more , as a hobby, than reading.
Cottages are my favorite .
Karen
I enjoyed this cute home and all the decorating that was done, thanks for sharing these wonderful rooms.
I am gathering all kinds of ideas from these photos. That bathroom mirror is so beautiful… makes my heart beat faster : )
Such a beautiful home! It looks so cozy.
What a nice place to live. I love the pink dresser and my favorite is the diamond panel window above the kitchen sink. Thanks for sharing this cottage!
Now that’s Fifi feminine! So charming.
Just such a sweet and restful cottage, love it!!
Everything looks so beautiful and inspiring!
This cottage look is so appealing to me the soft colors and wallpaper print all say cozy and comfortable. It gives me ideas about changing my look here at home. Thanks for showing all the different styles. Barbara
Just beautiful!!! I want to live there!!! lol Thank you for sharing.
Fifi’s books are such a treat. Cozy, charming, absolutely Dreamy.
Thanks for sharing.
One pass of looking at these photos isn’t enough. I’m going to come back to this post to study
OMG! So beautiful, so warm and cozy. I have some things and furniture that belong to my grandmother so I would love to win a copy of “The soulful Cottage” and look for some ideas to make my home more welcoming and cozier. Thank you Jennifer
Oh, count me in! Thank you. I love Fifi O’Neill’s style and always have. This New York cottage is so charming.
It’s good to know it’s still chic to be shabby!
Sweet cottage, love the kitchen. I always get great ideas from your blog, thank you.
Lots to love about items in those photos. So many treasures and ideas.
Perfect day to read this post; frigid weather outside, but cozy inside with cup of tea and this looking at this lovely post about a sweet cheery cottage.
Thank you.
Love love love!
Such beautiful detail!
Fingers crossed that I win this inspiring book.