One room cottage interiors
18 Stylish Interiors You Won't Believe Are Tiny Homes
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The tiny house movement is gaining big speed—and we mean big. In just a matter of years, it went from a very small alternative lifestyle to a massive, worldwide trend. Small, compact living gives homeowners the opportunity to travel, a vagabond lifestyle, and less worry about wasting money on rent (for a place that you’ll likely never buy).
But as enchanting as these pint-sized homes are, tiny houses certainly possess their fair share of problems: Small spaces are, quite literally, small. And if you aren’t careful with how you design and decorate the space, this small footprint can really show.
To help give your small space a big makeover, or to give you inspiration for your future tiny home, we’re taking to the one source of all our décor inspo: Instagram. These 18 tiny homes could have us fooled. From little cottages to RVs, to micro homes on wheels, these ingenious designs are anything but tiny. Read on, and get ready to feel inspired for a big life change.
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It’s a universally acknowledged truth that white opens up a room. Take this RV, for example. The white cabinets, white walls, white curtains, and neutral accents make the space appear so much bigger than it really is—and no one would ever be able to guess it’s an RV.
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Consider this a total Chip and Jo move. This tiny house fakes a large floor plan with tall ceilings, accented by a beautiful industrial chandelier and authentic wooden beams. Without the loft space you might see in a typical tiny home, this airiness actually makes it feel like there’s more opportunity to move around.
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Believe it or not, this is an RV bathroom (yes, really!). The number one reason why this feels so much more elevated than your typical tiny house bathroom? The open shelving. The simplistic wood-and-bracket design adds storage without the bulk.
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We love a good reading nook.
Sometimes, though, it feels like tiny houses forget to embrace the coziness and opt for big furniture wherever it fits. Here, small furniture creates the perfect nook to curl up in with a book and a glass of wine.
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Maybe we’re going against everything we said about white spaces, but color can be such a great tool for elevating a space as well. This little kitchen exudes spunk and eclectic pops of color—without which the tiny space would feel like a cramped area.
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We have to admit: Even though a loft can add very necessary space to a tiny home, sometimes it’s an eyesore. This little home is everything but. The thin railing, white shiplap, and vaulted ceilings make the loft feel like a natural addition to the space.
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When you’re working with less wall space, it’s easy to forget about how much character wall décor can bring. This house makes the most of the few walls it does have: funky square tiling that spills onto the floors, subway tiling, and floor-to-ceiling murals.
In other words, it’s completely sophisticated.
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Most tiny houses check off the bare necessities: a kitchen, a bathroom, a sleeping space. But a dedicated space for work is just as necessary. This small desk looks like an office you might find in a 3-bedroom home, but it takes up minimal space.
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While you might not be able to throw massive dinner parties in a tiny home, the small space shouldn’t stop you from trying to host a few get-togethers with a friend or two. That’s why it’s so important to create conversation areas—like this one, which uses the small square footage as a way to make a curved bench.
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We never underestimate paint. It’s one of the only interior design weapons that’s low risk and high reward. If this kitchen had wood-stained cabinets, it would have a closed-off look. But the bright blue paint makes it look like a kitchen straight out of a two-floor antebellum manor.
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Those who decide against a loft run the risk of having a bedroom that takes up way too much space.
This small cottage bedroom uses minimalism to its advantage—making the small room feel much bigger and adding a spa-like ambiance to the décor.
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Furniture takes up a lot of precious floor space. But pendant lighting? Quite the opposite. Go for a large statement lamp for lighting that leaves a major impact.
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Yes, tiny houses can have fireplaces too. This electric stove is the perfect size to heat up the entire space on a cold winter night. But it also doubles as the perfect decorative accent when not in use the other 6 months of the year.
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Small spaces are, in an essence, whimsical without even trying. To add to the whimsy (and to add seating without sacrificing floor space), go for an egg chair. Not a fan of the egg chair design? You can just as easily switch it out for a hammock or bench swing for a fresh look.
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Stairs with built-in storage have a certain allure, but as much as they draw us in, they’re also bulky and unattractive.
To help a tiny home reach its full potential, it’s all about minimal stairs that take up as little room as possible. These stairs even skip out on support beams, so there’s more room for standing storage and an entertainment center.
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At a glance, you would never be able to tell that this space is only 143 square feet. We like to think that a lot of the openness is thanks to the bed. Instead of a bulky frame, this bed is built into the floor, making the space seem so much bigger.
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As children, we were all probably lectured at one point or another for leaving our belongings all over the floor—but here, it’s an intentional part of the charm. The small baskets add extra storage without the bulk, not to mention a cozy space for pets to snooze.
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Putting up another wall can really close off a space—especially if you're only working with a few hundred feet. Here, zones are divided thoughtfully with the use of height, depth, and wood detailing.
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You'll never want to leave.
By Erin Cavoto
DAVID TSAY
Whether you own a cottage or just want to be inspired by some quaint decorating tips, you'll want to check out these best cottage decor ideas to create a slice of paradise right in your home. These styling ideas are perfect for maximizing space if you live in a tiny house, or even just adding simple touches that will make the space feel more like home. Each room is covered in these tips, including ideas for designing a peaceful patio, sprucing up your mudroom, or fitting in a home office. You'll be on the way to the kitchen of your dreams with sweet breakfast nook ideas, as well as tips for making the most-used room in the house a little more country-chic.
You might also want to look to some inspiration for your living room, whether you'd like to add some white living room ideas or opt for some rustic touches. Of course, there are several tips for creating an adorable cottage bedroom, including accent walls, bright colors, and comfy bedding. No matter what style you're trying to achieve in your home, whether it's a modern look or you prefer farmhouse décor ideas, there are cottage decor tricks for any type of home.
KIM CORNELISON
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Attic Bedroom
Many cottages have bedrooms with sloped ceilings. This use of an accent wall is a great idea, because it adds dimension to the room without making it feel crowded.
SHOP PLAID BEDDING
DAVID TSAY
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White Living Room
An all-white living room is complemented with wooden furniture for a cozy, welcoming look.
SHOP THROW PILLOWS
LAUREY W. GLENN
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Eclectic Cabinetry
These cabinets use metal ventilation inserts for the cabinet doors that create a rustic, whimsical look perfect for a cottage kitchen.
SHOP NICKEL CABINET KNOBS
ANNIE SCHLECHTER
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Corner Office
You don't need a dedicated room for a home office, just a cozy corner to tuck an upcycled desk, chair, and cabinet into.
SHOP DESK SUPPLIES
DAVID TSAY
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Tiny Cottage Kitchen
A cheery palette and narrow fridge turn make this kitchen feel open and airy rather than tight and cramped.
SHOP BACKSPLASHES
Lucas Allen
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Sweet Schoolhouse
Max Kim-Bee
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Quaint Sitting Area
Planks from Habitat for Humanity's ReStore line the sitting-room ceiling in this renovated Texas cottage. The homeowner was inspired to turn cow-feed sifters found at the Round Top Antiques Fair into artful sconces with burlap fringe.
Dana Gallagher
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Sunny Breakfast Nook
This New York cottage's beadboard-panelled breakfast nook features Eames chairs bought at a Brooklyn stoop sale and a farm table the owner made with salvaged wood.
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Mark Lohman
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Peaceful Patio
On the patio of a Victorian cottage in Arkansas, the wicker patio set was a hand-me-down from the homeowner's friend. Another pal sewed the love seat's cushion and pillow from fabric the homeowner scored at a Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store.
Mark Lohman
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Victorian Dining Room
The rooms of this Arkansas home were stuffed with mismatched furniture covered in musty 1980s linens, but the homeowner spotted enough gems in the mix to buy the place fully furnished. She saved only the pieces with potential or items that were stunning as is, like the sage cupboard and the chippy dining table.
Lucas Allen
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Vibrant Bedroom
In the master bedroom of this Catskills home, sunny-yellow paint and an exuberant green-and-white print enlivens the small space. The low-pitched roof created a seemingly unusable three-foot-high gap on each side of the room.
A carpenter was contracted to fill one side with bookshelves, and the other with cabinets and storage drawers.
Mark Lohman
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Stylish Bedroom
The homeowner of this restored Arkansas home upgraded the fixtures with chandeliers, and the Jenny Lind-style bed is one of the few furnishings she kept in the bedroom. The shams and duvet cover are West Elm; the coverlet is Garnet Hill.
Steven Randazzo
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Country Kitchen
You'd never guess that most of this 1900 Texas cottage was recently built. To add this kitchen, plus a living room, porch, and bathroom, the homeowners scoured the Texas countryside for materials others might overlook—from rusted pressed tin for the ceilings to salvaged windows, doors, and cabinets.
Max Kim-Bee
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Rustic Living Room
While this Connecticut cottage's living room's upholstered furniture is white, the sofa and chairs are also purposefully deconstructed, with tufted fronts and exposed burlap-and-wood backs.
A settee and two armchairs by Restoration Hardware cozy up to a Zentique coffee table. The boat propeller and oil paintings are secondhand scores.
Lisa Romerein
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Chic Kitchen
In this Los Angeles home, orange mohair revives a vintage maple stool in the kitchen, where Carrara marble upgrades Ikea cabinets. Task lighting comes in the form of suspended Edison bulbs, covered with Victorian wire shades. The cast-aluminum fox wine cooler was designed by Arthur Court.
Bright idea: Matching wood frames transform food-themed ephemera (labels, grocery ads, and menus) into a polished collection.
Victoria Pearson
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Simple Mudroom
This California cottage's mudroom boasts a 1930s factory stool, which retains its original green paint, while the iron hooks on the coatrack swivel from side to side.
Stacey Brandford
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Colorful Guest Suite
The truth about this room's walls? The paneling didn't match the rest of the house, so instead of whitewashing the wood, Sarah Richardson, interior designer and host of HGTV's Sarah's House, camouflaged it with an opaque paint, The Plaza by Glidden—a compromise that comes off as intentional.
Roger Davies
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Elegant Dining Area
Casual eclecticism rules in this Chicago cottage's dining nook, furnished with a reclaimed-oak table, a Belgian sofa from the early 1900s, reproduction caned chairs, and a vintage footstool upholstered with an antique carpet.
Lisa Romerein
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Unique Laundry Room
In the laundry room of this California cottage, photo-realistic wallpaper from Anthropologie fools the eye into thinking that books have been stacked floor to ceiling. A jute basket from World Market, filled with colorful quilts, sits beneath a reclaimed-oak table.
Max Kim-Bee
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Numbered Stairs
The family of this renovated Texas cottage stenciled numbers on plywood, which they nailed to their stair risers (painted Black Suede by Behr).
Victoria Pearson
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Small Space Decorating Ideas
A cheap curtain wire kit—not brackets and drapery rods—supports these panels in the den of this California home.
Pretty Accent Wall Ideas to Brighten Up a Room
Erin Cavoto Erin Cavoto is the Editorial Assistant at ThePioneerWoman.com, covering food, holidays, home decor, and more.
One-room apartment with the interior of a country house
Having settled in New Moscow, the owner of this one-room apartment decided that she lacked country comfort, so she asked designer Olga Latypova to make an interior similar to the interior of a country house. The experiment was a success: thanks to the combination of light and woody shades and natural materials, the apartment in the city has to rest and leisure in solitude.
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
About the project
Place: City of Moscow, Russia
: 2015
Size: 36 sq.m
Who lives here: Young woman
Author's author: Olga Latypova
Photo: Victor Chernoshov
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a new apartment in a typical panel house, it was decided to do without redevelopment. The living room occupied most of the space, approximately 20 sq.m. Despite this, it was possible to equip both the bedroom and the living area without sacrificing the feeling of spaciousness. nine0003
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
Decorating techniques helped to effectively zone a one-room apartment.
“The hostess was supposed to live here alone, and I insisted on putting a full bed in the room,” says Olga Latypova, the author of the project.
The bedroom was moved closer to the window, and a soft zone was provided for receiving guests at the opposite end of the room. The sofa for guests unfolds, which allows you to receive loved ones overnight, and to create a sense of privacy, you can close the curtain that separates the bedroom from the living room. nine0003
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
The entrance hall was designed in contrast of light and dark shades.
Underfloor heating systems were installed in the hall, bathroom and kitchen, and then slate was laid out; the walls were painted. “We used a grayish shade, very light and warm – in large volume it seems almost white,” notes Olga.
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
Despite the small area of the apartment, the hostess does not lack storage systems: two wardrobes have been installed in the hallway. Directly opposite the entrance, a textured console made to order according to Olga's sketches was placed: first, the workers welded a metal base, and then supplemented it with a wooden table top. nine0003
The vases on the console are not as simple as they seem at first glance: in fact, they are former shells from the Second World War. They went to the owner of the apartment from her grandmother and now serve peaceful purposes.
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
The color of the walls is the same throughout the apartment, the same paint was used for finishing the wooden ceiling.
This light shade has also been carried over to custom doors; a special overlay was made even for the entrance canvas in order to unite a small space with color. On the floor in the living room and bedroom - plywood, laid in two layers: it was sanded and tinted with oil. nine0003
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
One of the main accents in the living room is a fireplace portal made of black painted brick. A mirror was installed on the back wall of the portal, which visually doubles the number of candles used for decoration.
Two small ceiling lamps pointing at the wall, a central chandelier and two side lamps create a comfortable lighting environment in the living area. “To make a chandelier, we took five hangers and sewed covers for them. The lamps that stand on the sides of the sofa consist of elements from several models,” notes Olga.
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Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
This interior has a lot of furniture that has been living with the owner for years, and a lot of items made to order. For example, she inherited the bedside tables that stand on the sides of the sofa, and the coffee table was cast from metal and complemented with a wooden table top.
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
The sofa from IKEA originally had a gray cover, but since the owner of the apartment likes the blue color, the fabric was repainted. Accent blue appeared both in the curtain wall ornament and on the upholstery of decorative pillows. nine0003
A large three-section wardrobe is framed by mirrored panels that visually enlarge the space.
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
The bed is the property of the owner of the apartment, but it was slightly updated: it was reupholstered with denim to fit it more organically into the interior.
Its width is only 140 cm, so that even in a small bedroom it does not create a feeling of tightness.
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
Olga suggested that standard bedside tables be abandoned: instead of them, they put a leather chest bought on the occasion at Hoff on one side, and two textured stumps on the other. The third settled down next to the mirror. nine0003
The reading sconce above the bed is not the only source of light in the bedroom: other light fixtures of laconic form have been moved to the corners of the area to create an intimate atmosphere. The bedroom has a balcony: it was finished in the same style and sockets were brought out to organize a comfortable worktop there.
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
The central lamp is an elegant glass and metal pendant that plays a decorative role in the kitchen interior. The main illumination is given by spots located above the kitchen set.
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The fabric used for the curtains imitates linen, while silk ties soften this natural texture.
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
The kitchen set from IKEA was arranged in two lines: this technique helped to save space and free up the central part for the dining table. The wooden tabletop was tinted with oil, the same material was used to decorate the window sills.
Olga left the brick-like ceramic tiles from the previous project — this amount was enough to decorate the kitchen backsplash, especially since part of the wall was accentuated with a mirror. And the round dining table, property of the hostess, was sanded and painted dark blue. nine0003
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
The sink area in a small bathroom was arranged in a niche, supplemented with a larch worktop.
To the left and to the right of it, behind the laconic facades, there is a shallow cabinet and a compartment where communications and a water meter are connected.
The floor in the bathroom, as in the kitchen and in the hall, was decorated with slate, and the walls were tiled with domestic production. “Actually, this tile is intended for lining pools, but we were looking for just such a model to lay it out in a herringbone pattern,” says Olga. nine0003
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
Oliya Latypova Design and Decor
The ceiling in the bathroom is the same wood. Before laying the modules throughout the apartment, they were treated with an antifungal and fireproof coating. Oriental-style lamps were ordered from an online store, and a double-sided curtain was chosen for the bathroom: its inner surface repels water, and the outer one is made of fabric.
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Interior design of a small country house, country house ideas: 20 examples with photos
Interior design of a small country house. Most often, there is no space inside for a separate living room, kitchen, bedroom, so all or part of the functional areas have to be combined. nine0003
A small country house is a maximum of 30 sq.m (or even 7-10 sq.m.) of internal space, including an attic. The limited territory is the difficulty that prevents the owners from rationally using small meters of living space. More often there is no space inside for a separate living room, kitchen, bedroom, so all or part of the functional areas have to be combined.
If when designing an apartment you are more puzzled by matching the color of the plinth with the shade of the interior door, then when choosing the interior design option for a small country house, you have to solve practical issues, while introducing the intended style into the environment.
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We are acting according to plan!
At the initial stage, decide on the following points:
· Which style to choose;
· How to zone the space;
What kind of furniture to put;
· How and with what to finish.
Cottage styles
Cottage life takes place in an environment of nature, which is more in common with three styles:
· Country: the emphasis is on natural materials - wood, textiles. Pastel colors are used. The drawings are inconspicuous. The abundance of soft carpets, blankets, animal skins; nine0003
· Provence: furniture with carved legs, mostly white. Beams under the ceiling, floral ornaments on the tablecloth, curtains, lampshade. Photo frame, indoor flowers, openwork embroidery;
Retro: 100% country style. Furniture and accessories that are outdated and were taken out of a city apartment will help create an atmosphere of the past.
These are cupboards, heavy sofas with bolsters at the edges, bookcases behind glass doors. Striped wallpapers, lampshades, natural linen and cotton are suitable. nine0003
Chalet, Russian hut, rustic, hunting lodge styles are also suitable for country design.
Zoning the space and choosing furniture
If you have the means and the desire, you can create an environment from scratch. Although most are limited by budgetary methods: take old furniture out of the apartment or make home furnishings with your own hands.
Do not clutter up the space. Put in what you really need. If the room is shared (3 in 1 option - living room + bedroom + kitchen), then:
Arrange the furniture on the walls, leave the center of the living room free;
· If there is a separate kitchen, put a refrigerator, stove, hang a couple of shelves without doors - and nothing else;
· Instead of wardrobes and chests of drawers, buy a convertible bed with lots of storage drawers, or a gas lift wardrobe bed;
Make mezzanines;
· Hide a sleeping place in the living room behind a screen, partition or narrow shelving;
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· If the bedroom is combined with the living room, make a loft bed, and use a ladder to climb up;
· If the living room is combined with the kitchen, separate them with a bar counter.
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· Use tables with slanted or rounded tops to save entry space.
A competent approach to planning will allow you to place a shower cabin in a small area, and there is a place in the room for such a traditional thing as a rocking chair with a soft blanket. nine0003
Finishing and accessories
Natural materials in soothing colors are used to decorate the cottage. It is not necessary to make the interior completely from the array. Finishes and accessories that visually increase the area are welcome: beige wallpaper, accent tablecloth (turquoise, coral), mirrors, glossy facades. The rustic theme will be supported by vases, a floor lamp, flowers, onions in braids, pickles in jars on an open shelf.
If you plan to use your cottage during the autumn-spring period, think about individual heating. It is easier and faster to install an electric heater, but the option with a fireplace or wood-burning stove is more combined with a country theme and will add coziness.
