Tabla de contenidos para Fall 2025 en BH&G Cottage Style

We proclaimed it on the cover, so you know it must be true: It’s Cozy Season! As the colors change and leaves fall, days are getting shorter and our homes start to call us back inside for some much needed nesting. And just like cottage style can shift to suit different tastes, cozy vibes can be created in any number of ways. It all comes down to feeling embraced and warm from the inside out. Look no further than page 80 (“Scene Stealer”) for a reading nook dripping with deep colors and layers of fabrics in vintage-inflected patterns. The couch is made for curling up—truly, Peak Cozy. But maybe for you, natural materials reign supreme and you embrace the idea of bringing the outside in. Check out the wood paneled…

Renowned pattern designer Rebecca Atwood is back with her third book, The Harmonious Home: Designing Peaceful, Personal Spaces Inspired by Nature. The work is a study in mood building, as she creates motifs that provoke the senses and celebrate the blend between our built spaces and the natural world. Chapters include studies of dunes, oceans, fields, gardens, city scenes, and forests, shown here. “Long shadows. Light that is dappled, filtered, and sprinkled in. Earthy elements all around. A forest landscape calls for a moody, sheltered, cozy palette,” Atwood writes.…

trim talk “DON’T THINK OF PAINTED TRIM AS RUINING THE BONES. IT CAN CELEBRATE A ROOM’S ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER, PLAYING UP DETAILS LIKE MOLDING BY CREATING CONTRAST.”—Cortney Bishop, Cortney Bishop Design IDEAL DUOS Crown molding, baseboards, and woodwork around windows read as color, so factor them in when you’re selecting paint for walls. (All colors are by Benjamin Moore.) WHITE Virtually any wall color goes with white trim. The brighter the white (and the deeper the wall color), the greater the contrast. NATURAL PINE Light-color trim like this is best with a midrange paint color. If you want more contrast, go darker. Pale shades will wash out. REDDISH OAK The red tones in this trim limit the optimal paint colors. Shades of green, red’s complementary color, pair well with reddish oak…

Cheerful decor and casual comfort make this Lake Michigan cottage a welcoming spot to savor lazy summer days by the shore. But for owners Cheryl and David, it’s also a treasured link to family history. More than a century ago, Cheryl’s great-grandfather purchased a small resort on an acreage as a summer destination. “Sort of like a Catskills resort—but not that nice,” jokes Cheryl, who spent childhood weekends here playing softball, picking blueberries, and clambering down cliffs to the beach below. Decades after the last guest checked out, she acquired one of the parcels and spent the next 35 years dreaming about building a home there. About five years ago, she discovered that James Dolenc and Tom Riker of the Chicago interiors firm James Thomas owned a place around the…

“WITH OLDER HOMES YOU START AHEAD OF THE GAME.”—designer Julia Chasman Even before her clients called on her talents, designer Julia Chasman detected star potential in their 1930s home. Chasman walked through the Mission Revival charmer, located around the block from her own home in Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood, when it was last on the market. A former film producer who found her second act as a designer, Chasman saw helping her new neighbors reimagine their home as a continuation of her life’s greatest passion. “In filmmaking, I was finding stories and then figuring out how best to tell them,” she says. “In the home space, I find it’s much the same.” This home’s next chapter needed to serve a Hollywood book scout, his wife, and their young daughter.…

As young marrieds, Mary Kate and Ben Carl wanted a family and hoped to settle in Mary Kate’s hometown in the Texas Hill Country to be close to family and old friends. As luck would have it, one of those friends, a real estate agent and builder, was key to finding their first home, an 800-square-foot cottage in Boerne that wasn’t yet on the market. They hired an architect to rethink the floor plan, add dormer windows on the front, and plan an addition that would double its size. Mary Kate used her experience as an interior designer to choose building materials like butcher block and classic subway tile that fit her budget so she could splurge in some places. In the kitchen, for example, she opted for paneling instead…

Amanda Louise Campbell and her husband, Kevin, knew they were taking on a project when they bought their 1970s split-level ranch in Greenville, South Carolina. But they didn’t dive head-first into a big renovation—in fact, they completed it over years instead of months. “Renovating the whole home at once wasn’t realistic for us financially or practically,” Amanda Louise, an interior designer (on Instagram @amandalouiseinteriors), says. So they worked room by room over time and, she says, the approach helped add more personality into the spaces. As time and money allowed, she and Kevin tackled various projects in the 2,400-square-foot home. They replaced finishes and fixtures in the primary bathroom and moved the laundry from the attached garage into the house, making room in the garage for a mudroom. Finally—and most…

As newlyweds, Kelly and Dan Hartley were attracted to the simple, clean design of their first house. “There’s a lot you can do with a fresh slate that doesn’t have a particular style,” she says now. And “do” they did! Over the past 14 years the couple has transformed their home as their family grew to include daughters Emilia, 11, and Evie, 10. “The more memories and updates we make here, the less I want to ever leave!” Kelly says. In the open great-room, beams (aged, stained, assembled, and installed by the couple) span the ceiling and “add a lot of character and make spaces all flow so nicely together,” she says. A major kitchen renovation (“our first big project,” she says) created an entryway inside the front door as…