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English Cottage Home & Backyard Ideas
English cottage home & backyard ideas look like they have always been there: informal borders that spill over brick paths, climbing roses on an arbour or a shed, clipped box for a little structure, and stone, brick and painted timber that age gracefully. The style suits older houses and any garden with room for planting.
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English cottage home & backyard ideas look like they have always been there: informal borders that spill over brick paths, climbing roses on an arbour or a shed, clipped box for a little structure, and stone, brick and painted timber that age gracefully. The style suits older houses and any garden with room for planting.
The trick is structure under the abundance — a clear path, an axis, a hedge or wall to plant against. Save the home & backyard designs whose bones you can see through the flowers.
English cottage design is abundance with a plan. Look for brick, flagstone or gravel paths that give the eye a route, borders packed with roses, foxgloves, lavender, catmint and delphiniums, and a little structure from clipped box, a picket fence or an arbour. Materials are aged — reclaimed brick, painted timber, weathered stone — and there is always somewhere to sit: a bench under a tree, a bistro table by the door.
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