| The beauty of stylized furnishings is the distinct | | | | designs. |
| atmosphere it can create. Painted cottage style | | | | After the Civil War, the people in the North began to |
| furnishings are one such niche that does this with | | | | turn their attention to luxury items, and painted cottage |
| distinction. | | | | style pieces began appearing in the homes of the very |
| Painted Cottage Style Furnishings | | | | wealthy. The style was so popular that it did not stay |
| The essence of painted cottage style furnishings is the | | | | exclusively a luxury item for long, and workshops |
| appearance of age and a sense that somehow the | | | | began turning out pieces designed for the average |
| piece must be a family heirloom of great sentimentality. | | | | home. A very few of the pieces had carvings, but the |
| It is said that when a piece of painted cottage style | | | | majority were decorated by painting. Flowers and |
| furnishings rolls off an assembly line, it already looks old. | | | | fruits were the most common design used. Even the |
| The style had its beginnings in America in the years | | | | beds that followed the Victorian mode and featured |
| prior to the Civil War most notably on the East Coast. | | | | extremely large headboards had brightly colored |
| It had the restraint of the Victorian era in its design, but | | | | designs painted on them. |
| was usually decorated with colorful hand painted | | | | |