The cottage core exudes rustic charm and is reminiscent of simpler times. The design trend has quickly spread across social media, earning millions of views on TikTok alone.
Decorate your cottage-core home with floral prints and materials that reflect nature. Vases filled with black-eyed Susans or lupines from Minnesota’s prairies add an organic accent to any space, providing an organic backdrop.
1. Exposed Wood Beams
Cottagecore style embodies the charm and aesthetics of rural life with a playful flourish, providing us with an escape from today’s fast-paced modern world and encouraging us to slow down and appreciate life’s simple pleasures such as hand-stitched quilts, dried lavender bunches and porcelain teacups.
Rustic wooden furnishings evoke a cottage core lifestyle, particularly pieces with worn and aged looks. You can look for these items at thrift shops or garage sales or give worn pieces new life by giving them a coat of paint to fit with the aesthetic. Oak and pine wood species are great choices since these species are commonly found throughout Minnesota’s forests.
Pastel colors make an excellent backdrop for cottage living rooms, from rose pink and baby blue hues to soft yellows and rich earthy tones like umber and burgundy bringing energy and warmth. Antique tools such as vintage rakes and saws add charm while giving the space an authentic rustic aesthetic.
2. Metal Roof
Use rustic elements like barn wood, repurposed utensils, and natural fibers to give your home an authentic cottagecore style. Display these as wall art or use them in furniture pieces, or even try vintage tools as part of a unique backyard or garden look!
Cottagecore is a style that honors traditional skills and crafts while romanticizing life closely connected to nature. This aesthetic offers comforting relief from modern life’s hectic pace through small pleasures like handmade gifts or handicrafts.
Bring cottage charm to your backyard or garden by including natural nooks that invite relaxation. Rocking chairs, wrought-iron benches and cozy wooden lounges are great places to sit back and sip tea while reading or sipping on something warming like hot cocoa while sipping on tea from one of these cozy wooden lounges. Additionally, seating areas near lily ponds or under arbors or among blooming flowers make great soul-soothing retreats.
3. Wooden Deck
The cottagecore aesthetic is inspired by nature and nostalgic for simpler times. Use colors evoking nature’s hues such as soft greens, dusty pinks and purples, earth tones and warm yellows when creating this look; anything darker should be avoided to maintain an atmosphere that’s inviting and relaxing.
Unleash your inner green thumb and explore nature by adding a garden to the cottage core backyard. From flowers to herbs, this easy way of reconnecting with earth provides an inviting way for guests to connect and adds charm to any cottage home.
Display your gardening tools as decorative accents to show your affinity for cottagecore. Old saws, spades, and rakes can make great pieces for creating unique chandeliers; or consider decorative planters or wooden trellises as housing spaces for your favorite plants.
4. Wooden Fence
Cottagecore captures the ideal of idyllic rural living with romanticism. Its design aesthetics highlight traditional skills and crafts, evoking an idyllic life in tune with nature. As a result, Cottagecore creates cozy rustic homes that feel like escapes into magical English countryside meadows of your imagination.
Add rustic elements to the exterior for an instantaneous rustic-style makeover. Old-fashioned wooden shutters help achieve this aesthetic, as does adding wood trim around windows and doors. Furthermore, using natural-looking paint colors on shutters also contributes to this effect.
Gardeners looking for ways to add structure and charm can use wooden fences and trellises made from sturdy picket fences as enclosures, while trellises can guide climbing plants across their garden space. Incorporating cottagecore aesthetic by hanging tools such as saws or spades from either walls or ceilings for an interesting visual display.
