Please be aware that I have not, in every case, seen at first hand all the products of all the sources listed on this website. Neither have I dealt with them as a customer to assess their warranties or services. So as they say in Latin: "Ecce magnitudinem illae molae piperi"!! No, wait a minute, that means "Look at the size of that pepper mill". Try this: "Caveat Emptor"--Let the buyer beware...and go to the Better Business Bureau website to check on complaints and resolutions.

Cottage at right designed by architects Richard Bernhard and John Priestley of Rockport, Maine. Photo by Brian Vanden Brink.

Architectural Accents
Ruckersville, VA
WWW: http://www.cupolaconstruction.com
If you are looking to top your cottage with a cupola that has the proper look and proportions, this is the place to shop.

Architectural Garage Door Mfg., Inc.

www.woodgaragedoor.com

Very impressive looking, custom-made garage doors. Various species of wood, authentic traditional styling. If your cottage has a carriage house, you might want to consider one of these doors for it!

Bungalow Gutter Bracket Co.
859-335-1555
WWW: http://www.bungalowgutterbracket.com
Custom designed and fabricated, Arts and Crafts style gutter support brackets in solid copper. If youšre creating (or re-creating) a bungalow, you owe it to yourself to check out these incredible fittings. Its one of those final touches that really makes a difference.

Camelot Garage Doors

McAlester, OK

(888-426-0880)

Camelot manufactures custom wood garage doors and other custom exterior accessories. If your cottage has a garage that is visible from the street, you definately want to consider going with traditional-looking wood doors.

www.camelotgaragedoors.com

Century Post Company

www.centuryporchpost.com

If you are building a porch, you are likely going to need posts. A source for both stock or custom made columns. Also make newel posts and other turned fittings.

Cinder Whit & Company
(800-527-9064)
A good place to look for porch fittings such as posts, balusters and spindles. Made exclusively of highly rot-resistant western red cedar, the fittings should last for generations. They will also create custom patterns for you that are "era specific and architecturally correct".

Clingerman Builders

www.clingermanbuilders.com

Another source of custom-made garage doors made in wood. Located in PA.

Copper Moon Woodworks

www.coppermoonwoodworks.com

Look here if you want to see some outrageously cute, beautiful and functional shutters.

The Copper Works of Don Miller
(714-633-9308)
WWW: http://members.aol.com/gutterarts/
You haven't really seen rain gutters until you've seen the incredible design and craftsmanship of Don Miller's sheet copper and cast bronze gutter fittings. Here you'll find goose necks, brackets and leader heads--the latter with ornamental designs ranging from grape leaves to cute bunny rabbits. His catalog also includes a region-specific listing of rain gutter material suppliers (the copper gutters themselves) and installers.

Designer Doors Inc
(800-241-0525)
WWW: http://www.designerdoors.com
Nothing detracts so much from the feeling of a cottage-style house as the broad and bland expanse of a modern-syle garage door. Fortunately, these folks build an impressive selection of period-style garage doors that can enhance your cottage. These look like traditional divided doors, but still operate as overhead doors and have internal polystyrene insulation.

Empire Woodworks
(800-360-2119)
Offer an impressive selection of victorian-era brackets, running trim, corbels, gable ornaments and arch spandrels. They are also a source of hard-to-find sawn (as compared to turned) porch balusters.

European Hardware Co.

www.europeanhardware.net

An interesting selection of traditional hardware fittings for shutters; garage doors and gates. Modern materials and engineering applied to traditional styling to ensure longevity of operation.

Fantasy Steel
http://www.fantasysteel.com
The craftspeople of Fantasy Steel, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, produce a selection of well made, often-whimsical in design swings, rockers, and brackets. Crafted in steel and wood, their designs range from images of deer to dragons. Here you'll find some truly unique furnishings for log homes, chalets, and cottages.

Fireplace Accessories and Tools

http://fireplace-accessories-tools.com

Everything you ever wanted to know about fireplaces and everything you need to create the best one for your home!

Hahn's Woodworking Company, Inc.
(908-241-8825)
Another supplier of traditional-appearing wood garage doors. Also make swinging and sliding versions of the overhead types.

Moose Country Wood Products
207-924-5007
WWW: http://www.moosecountrywoodproducts.com
Handcrafted arbors, gazebos, garden furniture in Maine cottage style. All made with native Maine cedar.

One Guy Light Co.
WWW: http://www.rusticloglighting.com
At One Guy Light Co., you will find a wide selection of Rustic Log Lights, Antler Lighting, & Punched Tin Light Fixtures for any log or country style home-all made in America.

Screen Den
WWW: http://www.screenden.com
Want to screen in your sitting porch-without uglifying your cottage? Screen Den can help. a Screen Den panel system requires only a "one-inch of grab" around the opening for you to have large, good looking screens to enjoy an unobstructed view. Combined with the removable PVC window panels, a Screen Den solution offers complete element control.

Simmonds Woodturning
WWW: http://www.simmondswoodturning.com
Simmonds Woodturning is a custom woodturning operation producing high quality, hand turned wood products - porch posts, newels, balusters, other architectural components and table legs.

Simply Wood
WWW: http://www.simplywood.on.ca
Established in 1996 Simply Wood services clients all over the North West of Ontario and the Mid-West United States. With over 12 years of experience Lee Oelke leads his staff of expert cabinet makers that have been producing intricate top quality relief signs for a variety of applications. Whether your signage needs are for home, cottage, or commercial, Simply Wood can produce the clean sign you want at a price you'll appreciate.

Smith Industries
WWW: http://www.smithindustries.com
Whimsical, sculptural furnishings made from twigs and stigs. Though this furniture style is suited more for log homes and rustic cabins (especially inside), stick-furniture can look right at home in a cottage garden. Artisan Ray Smith's does it right--I'm especially enamored of his garden swing.

Superior Clay Corporation
(800-848-6166)
WWW: http://www.rumford.com
Here's where you will find an amazingly wide variety of clay chimney tops (or pots as they call them in England--truly the crowning touch of a chimneyed cottage-style home).

Timberlane Woodcrafters
(800-250-2221)
Another source for shutters and hardware. Pinned mortise and tenon construction adds style and authenticity.

Touchstone Woodworks
(330-297-1313)
WWW: www.touchstonewoodworks.com
Another source of wonderful screen doors--these stand out because they are made from Honduras mahogany. This is a beautiful reddish-brown wood that has excellent stability, impact resistance and is highly rot resistive. All great qualities for a screen door.

Victorianna's Gables & Such
(330-454-9498)
A small but very nicely designed selection of gable decorations. A cut above (sorry) many others on the market.

Vintage Woodworks
(903-356-2158)
WWW: http://www.vintagewoodworks.com
An extensive selection of gingerbread fittings, including screen/storm doors. Also carry some interior moldings. Lots of color photos in their big catalog show usage.

Vixen Hill Manufacturing Company
(800-423-2766)
Shutters (made of cedar) and an attractive selection of cast and wrought iron shutter hardware. This company also makes gazebos (see Outdoor furnishings).

Wooden Screen Door Co.
3542 U.S. Route 1
Waldoboro, Maine 04572
(207-832-0519)
WWW:http://www.woodenscreendoor.com
Made from Honduras mahogany and assembled with pinned mortise and tenon joints, these are good looking, high quality screen doors. They arenšt cheap, but objects of good taste and long durablility rarely are.

Brass Light Gallery
(800-243-9595)
Another source of artfully designed and well made lighting fixture. Their arts and crafts collection is particularly attractive. They also make exterior and landscape lighting--cottagers will especially appreciate their "European Country" (TM) lantern.

Bungalow Metal

www.bungalowmetal.com

These folks restore old metal fittings including heat registers, lamps, tub legs, etc.

Carlisle Restoration Lumber
(800-595-9663)
WWW: http://www.wideplankflooring.com
One of the sure ways to embue a home with the cottage look is to lay down wide plank floors. Trick is to find the stuff--its not at your local lumber yard. These folks provide wide plank flooring in many different species, including heart pine at reasonable (it's never cheap) prices. Their catalog assures us that the wood comes from sustainable selective cutting, never clear cuts, so guilt isn't a mandatory accessory. (Though I'll wager there will be at least one squirrel pissed off at losing his home to yours).

Catalina Classics

Celtic Beds
316-612-0984
WWW: http://thewroughtironco.com
Celtic-style beds, hand forged in Ireland. Your bedroom will look like it belongs in a cottage snuggled in an Irish heather.

Cozylighting.com

www.cozylighting.com

Large selection of quality lighting fixtures for indoors and out.

Country Tinware
(800-800-4846)
These folks feature a wide selection of very appealing and unique lamps--almost all with punched tin shades. You won't find these types of lamps very many other places. Look great in a cottage.  

Custom Wood Turnings, LLC
(860-767-3236)
This company offers one of the largest selections of newl posts, finials, ballusters and columns that I've seen. Their machines can also produce the relatively rare 'roping' effect. Also supply roof finials and a wide selection of porch columns.  

Historic Housefitters Co.
(800-247-4111)
A wide-ranging source of period fittings such as wrought iron and solid brass door hardware, lighting fixtures and fireplace implements.  

Insidesign
WWW: http://insidesign.us
Wrought iron furnishings hand crafted in the US.  

Kayne & Son Custom Forged Hardware
(828-667-8868)
This 35 year-old family business makes a wide range of hand-forged hardware items. Not just typical stuff like strap hinges and latches, but also stuff like brooms with decorative wrought iron handles, forged shovels, door knockers and even cranes for swinging a cast iron pot over the roaring fire--authentic cottage fittings.  

Kellogg Hardwood Lumber

(877-721-9663)

www.kellogghardwoods.com

Located in CT, a source of wide pine boards for creating an authentic period cottage floor.

Reggio Register Co.
(978-772-3493)
Finally--a source for the real thing: cast iron (not the thinner stamped steel) floor registers (has adjustable louvers) and grills. They also offer these decorative fittings in brass and hardwoods.  

Rejuvenation Lamp & Fixture Company
(888-401-1900)
A premier source of architecturally correct lighting fixtures from the colonial revival, arts and crafts, and early twentieth century design periods. Their catalog is a feast for the eyes and a delight to read (a feature achingly absent in most mail-order catalogs). They even offer wonderful reproductions of Edison's large filament, clear-glass light bulbs (from the catalog: "to afford you the opportunity to buy light bulbs that give off one third the light of a normal light bulb at ten times the price!")  

Renovator's
(800-659-2211)
Before you go to Home Depot, take a look at this mail-order suppliers extensive offerings of traditional plumbing and lighting fixtures. There's stuff here you'll rarely see on the retail marketplace.  

Scottish Wrought Iron and Maine Village Weavers

www.scottishwroughtiron.com

Some of the better wrought iron work and handcrafted fabrics that I've encountered. Looks like the real thing because it is!

Superior Clay Corporation
(800-848-6166)
WWW: http://www.rumford.com
Not only do they offer chimeney tops, but also rumford-type fireplace components. If you want a fireplace in your cottage, and you want it to be effective, consider building a rumford type.  

Williamsburg Blacksmiths
(800-248-1776)
Another good source of hand-forged, wrought iron hinges, latches, dutch door quadrants and door knockers.  

Wood Ventures Inc.
(800-524-5230)
Another source for wood or brass grills--though a small selection than Reggio's, these are quite tastefully designed and can be ordered custom-sized to your situation.

A Bit of Paris

Extensive on line catalog of cottage-style furnishings and accessories. If its cottage, you'll find it here.

www.abitofparis.com

Bramble Cottage

Another large on-line selection of furnishings, including those for the garden...from lighting to bedding to dinnerware furniture.

http://www.bramblescottage.com

Cathouse Beds

Iron beds by Cathouse beds offer a large collection of custom conversions of original twin and full size iron bed frames to modern sizes of king, queen and canopy beds. They also do restoration and refinishing.

www.cathousebeds.com

Coastal Theme Home

www.lightingwithacoastaltheme.com

If yours is a coastal cottage, check here for nautically themed decor, especially lamps.

Country Cottage Chic

www.countrycottagechic.com

This site has a very interesting selection of decidely cottage-style furnishings, apparently hand-made and hand-painted.

Cottage Flourishings

Good place to look for decidely cottage-style antiques. Its home and design pages give a surprisingly good overview of the various cottage decor styles.

http://www.cottageflourishings.com

Cottage Home

A truly vast selection of a full full range of furnishings and accessories for Maine-style rustic cottages. You'll spend hours on this site!

www.cottagehomemaine.com

Door Country Wood and Leather Crafts
(920-746-4085 or 920-743-6034)
WWW: http://www.doorcountree.com
Many years ago I used to make rustic chairs from split and shaved oak slats, using rush or inner bark for seating. I don't anymore, but Tom Hermann of Door County, Wisconsin does and he does a great job. These hand made chairs are surprisingly comfortable and truly at home in a cottage or log cabin. Check them out.

Horizon Custom Homes

www.horizon-custom-homes.com

Online store specializing in Arts and Crafts perion furniture.

Kate Madison Furniture

www.katemadison.com
Cottage style furniture and furnishings in the "French Country" look. A huge selection to choose from. Store is located in Kennebunk, Maine.

L.L. Bean
(800-221-4221)
One of the country's biggest outdoor clothing outlets, they also carry a small but nice selection of cottage furniture and accessories. Ask for their "Furnishings" catalog.  

Maine Cottage Furniture, Inc.
(207-846-1430)
WWW: http://www.mainecottage.com
Don't buy one stick of furniture for your cottage until you've taken a look at the in-house designed furniture of this Maine coast furniture company. There, you've been warned.

Matt Zudweg Award Winning Signs
(616-243-9152)
WWW: http://www.mattzudweg.com
If you love your cottage so much that you've given a name to it and want to display it--or you want to decorate some rooms with extraordinary, hand-crafted period signs--check out Matt Zudweg's work. This level of workmanship and artistic talent is hard to find.

Red Ridge Fine Furniture
Handcrafted, Made-to-Order Rustic Log, Recycled Wood, Solid Wood, Forged Steel, European Leather, Wagon Wheel, Amish, & Farm Country Furniture; Natural Burl Slab Tables; Windsor Chairs; Wood Carvings of Bears, Woodland Animals, & Birds of Prey; Slate & Copper Indoor Fountains; Rustic Lighting; & Other Unique Home Furnishings....
http://www.redridgefurniture.com

Retro Barn

Specializes in unique bedding ensembles for country cottages and rustic cabins. Also offers country style curtains, table linens and country art prints.

http://www.retrobarn.com.

The Wicker Woman

www.wickerwoman.com

Information and links to everything wicker furniture. Also rustic lighting.