The Cottage Market Saturday Collection with charming homes, clever projects, cozy finds and simple pleasures.
Hello, my sweet friends! Welcome to another Saturday here at The Cottage Market! This week we are enjoying a lovely mix of charming decorating ideas, helpful solutions for some of those little home dilemmas, affordable projects, delicious vegetarian recipes and a few things that simply caught my eye.
I wanted this collection to be beautiful, of course… but I also wanted it to be useful. You will find ideas for making a small room work better, giving ordinary pieces a custom look, preserving flowers, updating a lampshade and even doing something unexpected with a refrigerator!
Then we will head into the kitchen for some colorful and budget friendly vegetarian meals, enjoy a little something sweet and finish with several fun finds that I hope will make you smile.
So grab your favorite beverage, get comfortable and let’s see what caught my eye this week!
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Charming Decorating Ideas and Helpful Home Solutions
7 Decorating Tricks I Used to Create This Berry Inspired Table
This beautiful berry inspired table is filled with summery color, sweet details and plenty of ideas you can borrow for your own home. I especially love seeing how a few thoughtful decorating tricks can take an ordinary table and make it feel wonderfully special without becoming too formal.
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How to Decorate a Small Room
Decorating a small room can feel like putting together a puzzle… especially when you need comfort, storage and enough seating without making the room feel crowded. Yvonne is sharing smart and practical advice about furniture scale, rugs, lighting, color and leaving enough open space so a smaller room can feel comfortable, useful and beautifully pulled together.
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The Modern Farmhouse Mudroom Reveal
Wait until you see how this garage area was transformed into a beautiful and hardworking modern farmhouse mudroom! It is filled with storage, organization and wonderful decorating details that prove even the most practical areas of the home can be welcoming and pretty.
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Limelights and Sunflowers
Limelight hydrangeas and cheerful sunflowers are such a lovely late summer combination. This simple arrangement feels fresh from the garden and shows how a few seasonal blooms can bring life, color and that special cottage feeling to an entire room.
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Affordable Projects to Try
How to Make a Pleated Lampshade… No Sew DIY
A custom lampshade can completely change the personality of an ordinary lamp, but buying one can get expensive very quickly. This clever no sew project shows how to create that lovely pleated look yourself… giving an older or basic shade a fresh designer style on a much friendlier budget.
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Microwave Flower Pressing… Two Easy Methods
Have you ever wanted to press flowers but did not want to wait several weeks for them to be ready? Jennifer is sharing two easy microwave methods that speed up the process so you can preserve favorite garden blooms and begin creating with them much sooner. This could lead to so many pretty cottage projects!
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How to Age Books With Coffee… So Easy!
Books are one of my favorite ways to add height, texture and personality to a vignette… and this easy idea gives newer books an aged and collected appearance using coffee. It is an inexpensive little project that can add warmth and character to shelves, tables and cozy cottage displays.
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How to Add Bead Trim to a Bookcase for a Custom Look
Sometimes the smallest detail makes the biggest difference! KariAnne is showing how decorative bead trim can take a simple bookcase from basic to custom, and it is such a creative reminder to look at what we already own before deciding it needs to be replaced.
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How to Wallpaper Your Fridge
Now this is certainly an unexpected project! If you have an older refrigerator or simply want to add a little personality to your kitchen, wallpaper can give it a colorful and completely different look. This may not be for every home… but it is clever, affordable and so much fun to see!
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Help the Bees and the Environment… Create a Fancy Bee Hotel
Here is a project that is both decorative and helpful to the garden. This fancy bee hotel turns a practical shelter for solitary bees into a charming garden feature, and I love any project that adds beauty while also giving our precious pollinators a helping hand.
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Quick and Easy Vegetarian Meals on the Budget Friendly Side
Here is a little place for us to explore new recipes, discover fresh ways to use seasonal produce and maybe even try something for the very first time! Adding more plant forward meals to the week can be colorful, delicious, healthy and affordable… and these recipes make it feel completely doable.
Zucchini Pasta
If the garden or farmers market is overflowing with zucchini, this creamy pasta is a delicious way to put it to good use. Tender zucchini is blended with ricotta, Parmesan, basil and lemon to create a silky sauce that coats every bite… and the entire meal comes together in about 25 minutes.
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Vegetable Stir Fry
Colorful, flexible and ready in about 30 minutes… this vegetable stir fry is a wonderful answer to the question, “What can I make with the vegetables in the refrigerator?” The homemade sauce brings everything together, and you can serve it over rice, quinoa or noodles for an easy and satisfying meal.
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Falafel
Golden, crisp falafel filled with chickpeas, herbs and savory spices makes such a flavorful plant forward meal. Tuck it into pita, add it to a salad or serve it as part of a colorful bowl with vegetables and a favorite sauce… there are so many delicious possibilities! This truly could become a family favorite!
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One Pot Vegetable Spaghetti
A comforting spaghetti dinner with vegetables and only one pot to wash sounds pretty wonderful to me! This easy meal is colorful, family friendly and especially helpful on those busy evenings when you want something homemade without creating a sink full of dishes.
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Something Sweet
Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry shortcake is one of those simple desserts that truly tastes like summer. Sweet juicy berries, tender homemade biscuits and clouds of whipped cream come together in a classic treat that would be perfect for a family dinner, picnic or quiet evening on the porch.
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A Few Things That Caught My Eye
A Little Pew Love Story and DIY
There is something so special about giving a beautiful old piece a new chapter. This little pew comes with a sweet story and a wonderful transformation… exactly the kind of meaningful DIY that reminds us a home becomes special when it is filled with pieces we truly love.
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Amazing Budget Friendly DIYs
These projects are proof that decorating beautifully does not always require a large budget. There are some truly creative ideas here that look much more expensive than they are… and you may spot one that inspires your next weekend project!
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Cedar River Farmhouse Tour
This lovely home is a little bit cottage chic, a little bit farmhouse charming and completely delightful when it all comes together. There are so many thoughtful details to notice throughout the tour, along with plenty of warm and welcoming inspiration that I think you are going to enjoy.
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Marmots Become Internet Stars
Well… I certainly did not expect marmots to become internet sensations, but here we are! Their online popularity is now helping scientists and conservation work, so apparently the internet really can accomplish something good while giving us all a reason to smile.
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Eclectic Home Decor With Tons of Color
You know I love some color, and even though this home is not traditional farmhouse style, it is so much fun to explore something a little different. Colorful art, collected pieces and playful combinations can inspire us to add one unexpected pop of personality to our own homes… and many of these ideas could fit beautifully into a boho farmhouse or colorful cottage space. The first two rooms are my favorites… see which ones catch your eye!
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Until Next Time…
I hope you found a little something today that inspired you, helped solve a decorating problem or simply made you smile.
Maybe you discovered an affordable project to try… a new way to use all that summer zucchini… or a pretty idea that you can adapt to your own home. That is exactly what I would love these Saturday visits to become… a comfortable place where we can enjoy beautiful things while also finding ideas that make everyday life a little easier and more special.
Which feature caught your eye this week? Are you tempted to try one of the projects or recipes? I always love hearing what you think!
Thank you so much for spending part of your Saturday here with me, my friends. It means more than you know.
Hugs,
Andrea @ The Cottage Market
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