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How to make a modern home feel older
Age and atmosphere without pretending a new-build is an eighteenth-century cottage.
Read →Cottagegoth
The darker side
of cottage life.
Old houses. Wild gardens. Folklore. Nature after dark. Good things with a little age to them.
Start here →Dark objects for the mantel
Candlesticks, vessels and small pieces with weight and texture rather than novelty-goth styling.
Visit The Blackened Teeth ↗Old mirrors, not faux-old ones
Antique and vintage mirrors are often more convincing than new pieces designed to imitate age.
Visit Vinterior ↗Lighting with some character
A useful place to look for lamps and shades that do more than simply make a room darker.
Visit Graham & Green ↗Darker interiors without the costume set
Furniture, botanicals and objects that work in ordinary homes as well as deliberately moody ones.
Visit Abigail Ahern ↗The stranger end of homeware
A broad source for unusual objects; worth editing carefully rather than treating the whole catalogue as Cottagegoth.
Visit Rockett St George ↗Books worth keeping rather than scrolling past
Folklore, natural history, gothic fiction, gardens and the books that give the aesthetic some substance.
Visit Bookshop.org UK ↗The Index
Follow the connections.
Plants, creatures, materials and ideas that recur across the site.
Open the index →- Foxglove
- Corvids
- Moths
- Blackthorn
- Iron
- Moss
- Mushrooms