Cozy White Cottage: 100 Ways to Love the Feeling of Being Home
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Whether you live in a country farmhouse or an urban apartment, find inspiration for every room in your home. Come cozy up with your creativity and Liz's welcoming voice so you can love the feeling of being at home.
In this beautiful book of house and garden photography and DIY inspiration, popular blogger Liz Marie Galvan shares:
- 100 tips and tricks to make your home feel cozy
- Budget-friendly hints to make decorating affordable
- Simple DIY projects for every room in your house
In Cozy White Cottage, you'll get the help you need to create a space you love coming home to as Liz offers her best home décor and design tips. You'll love Liz's real-life, easy, and affordable ideas to get the most out of your home and discover things like:
- The passion and productivity that can pour out of an inspiring, functional workspace or home office
- The conversation and connection that flow out of a warm, well-arranged living room
- The thoughtful hospitality that can welcome guests, be it for a cup of coffee or an overnight stay
- The rejuvenation that can happen when we have quiet spaces for reading, prayer, and rest
- The calming routines and rituals that we can implement into our spaces and our lives
- The laughter, joy, and learning that can occur in adorable, functional playrooms
- The life-giving power that beats in the heart of our homes: the kitchen
Join the hundreds of thousands of readers and DIY-ers who find design inspiration on Liz's blog, where she shares stories of life with her son, Cope, and veteran husband, Jose, in their 1800s Michigan farmhouse, and her home décor boutique. Cozy White Cottage offers inspiration for every style and makes the perfect self-purchase, housewarming gift, birthday treat, Mother's Day read, or holiday gift.
Look for Liz’s other cozy home décor book of DIY inspiration, Cozy White Cottage Seasons.
Liz Marie Galvan
Liz Marie Galvan is a blogger, interior designer, and co-owner of the vintage home decor boutique The Found Cottage. Each month, hundreds of thousands of readers find design inspiration and DIY ideas at LizMarieBlog.com. Liz and her veteran husband, Jose, live in an 1800s farmhouse in Michigan with their dogs, cats, sheep, and rams. Learn more about their farmhouse renovation at their website, The White Cottage Farm. Liz has been featured on the Today Show, in Better Homes and Gardens and Country Living and has collaborated with Behr, Magnolia Home Paint, Kilz, Home Depot, TJ Maxx/HomeGoods, Home Depot, GMC, and HGTV.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved the ideas in this book and how the author makes it so simple to create light, happy, spaces to help you truly love being at home!
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Cozy White Cottage - Liz Marie Galvan
PRAISE FOR COZY WHITE COTTAGE
"As a longtime fan of Liz Marie’s, it’s pure pleasure to sit and devour every unique detail of her charming White Cottage Farm in one beautiful book. Reading Cozy White Cottage, I felt like I was sitting across the table and sharing a cup of coffee with a good friend—a friend who just happens to have some of the best decorating tips and DIY ideas for creating a personal and inviting home. My copy is tagged with more than a few sticky notes!"
—JENNIFER KOPF, HOMES EDITOR, COUNTRY LIVING MAGAZINE
"The space we come home to should be filled with beauty, passion, and peace. In her book, Cozy White Cottage, Liz leaves no detail to chance—from furnishing each room to the soft glow of the light bulb we choose. Designing your home, ‘the Liz way’ will make you feel like you just got a big hug every time you walk through your door."
—KIM LEGGETT, AUTHOR, CITY FARMHOUSE STYLE
All the cozy feelings! Whatever your personal home style might be, I believe it should start with cozy, peaceful, welcoming vibes, and that’s just what Liz’s book provides: the ultimate guide to styling a cozy home for your favorite people! Honored to be included in these beautiful pages!
—BLOGGER ERIN KERN OF @COTTONSTEM INSTAGRAM AND WWW.COTTONSTEM.COM
We cannot say enough about how much we love Liz Marie’s approach to beautiful and inviting spaces. Her talent for creating places that feel cozy, lived in, and loved in is something we deeply admire and are in complete awe of. This book feels like a direct line into her heart and soul and we are so grateful that she has chosen to share it with us all!
—ANDY AND CANDIS MEREDITH, AUTHORS, OLD HOME LOVE
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To my grandma, who has always inspired and encouraged my love for home décor and creating a cozy home. And to Jose and Cope, whose love makes my life cozier than I ever dreamed.
CONTENTS
Introduction
WELCOME / PORCH & ENTRYWAY
A cozy place for warm greetings
DWELL / LIVING ROOM
A cozy place for loved ones to linger
GATHER / DINING ROOM
A cozy place to be together around the table
NOURISH / KITCHEN
A cozy place to share conversation and comfort food
RENEW / BATHROOM
A cozy place to pamper
CREATE / OFFICE & CRAFT ROOM
A cozy place to dream big dreams
GROW / GARDEN
A cozy place for beauty to bloom
PLAY / MEDIA & PLAYROOM
A cozy place to make memories together
REST / BEDROOM
A cozy place to soothe your soul
Where We Love to Shop
Acknowledgments
About the Author
INTRODUCTION
Cozy . It’s a word that just instantly makes you want to curl up by the fire with a blanket and some hot cocoa and snuggle with a good book, right? For some, coziness is the scent of a candle burning and the familiar taste of your mom’s signature meal. For others, it’s the sound of waves crashing, the cuddle of a beloved pet, or the sight of a sunset on the mountains. Maybe your version of cozy is something else entirely. You see, cozy can mean so many different things to different people.
Comfort, warmth, security . . . for me, these three things evoke coziness—that soul-deep feeling of being at home. As a girl growing up in Michigan, I felt most at home when I was doing something related to art, design, and decorating. I was drawn to decorating magazines and TV shows, which was a little unusual for a 14-year-old. After growing up and marrying an active-duty military service member, I was quickly thrown out of my comfort zone. My husband, Jose, and I were relocated to North Carolina, surrounded by strangers from different walks of life, and the one and only familiar thing I knew (Jose) would leave for more than six months at a time.
If comfort, warmth, and security were my pillars of coziness, I had lost two of the three. Being stationed in North Carolina, at least I had warmth, but even that had its limitations. To feel more at home, I needed to find the missing pillars, and that was when I began focusing much of my time on interior design. Creating cozy spaces in our rented townhouse helped keep my mind at ease instead of worried about a deployed husband and best friends many miles away. Trying my hand at DIY projects and incorporating some cottage style into that rental brought me so much joy and added subtle hints of home, a way to find comfort in an unfamiliar place.
Since that time, Jose and I have taken on home projects of all different shapes and sizes, learning to keep up a house and taking on the easy repairs, décor refreshes, and DIY projects to make it better—to make it cozy. Through the years we’ve shared what we’ve learned on LizMarieBlog.com in hopes of helping others with tutorials, crafts, ways to incorporate cottage and farmhouse style, and simple inspiration. We have also opened up our hearts and lives with our wonderful readers. From the hardships of military life, to receiving the incredible gift of our son Copeland Beau, and to many hardships in between, life hasn’t been perfect, but it’s been a beautiful journey I’ve enjoyed sharing on the blog.
Through it all, one thing I am still dependent on is a cozy space to decompress and relax. Jose and I now find cozy in Michigan, on the eight acres we call White Cottage Farm. We are slowly turning this centennial property into our own as we renovate its 1800s farmhouse and add some special animals to the mix. At the moment, the farm is home to six sheep, three dogs, seven cats, twelve chickens, and approximately 100,000 bees. It is ever growing and ever blooming, and we are thankful every day for the peace and comfort our haven brings us. Jose and I lead such busy lives between the farm, our fixer-upper farmhouse, the boutique of vintage finds and home décor called The Found Cottage that we co-own, and other avenues of craziness, so having an oasis to come home to and shut out the rest of the world means so much to us.
Isn’t that the importance of home? Although we all might define cozy differently, each definition offers the same promise: a sense of belonging, comfort, and warmth. A corner, a room, a place where our souls find peace and our bodies can rest. And although the craziness of life might tell us we don’t have the time or energy to create a cozy home, I’m here to tell you that it’s totally within reach.
Some may ask, Why were you ready to write a book now?
My answer: I’m not. There’s never a perfect time—and it’s especially not ideal while our fixer-upper has no finished parts to it! But I hope through this book and a glimpse into our unfinished and imperfect life, you see that you can make your home cozy no matter what your life looks like right now.
It is my hope that Cozy White Cottage will inspire you to bring cozy into the way you live today, whether it’s on a sheep-filled farm, in a modern urban flat, or in a rented townhouse. Wherever you are, let these tips and ideas help you create a sanctuary you and your family can gather in, live in, and love in. May these one hundred ways for adding comfort and warmth truly help you create a cozy corner of the world that you long to come home to.
WELCOME
PORCH & ENTRYWAY
A cozy place for warm greetings
PORCH & ENTRYWAY
What is it about some houses that beckons you to enter? Is it flowers on the porch? Flickering gaslights and a wreath