Guest Post – Cottage Living in Carmel by the Sea

Who is in the mood for a trip? Today Sue from Housekaboodle is taking you’ll to Carmel, CA.

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Hi, my name is Sue and I blog at Housekaboodle about houses like a cottage or bungalow, celebrity houses, TV & Movie houses, kitchens and more. I am excited to guest post here today for Vidya. If your reading this then you are a fan of What’s Ur Home Story like me. I am still thinking about the Chair Story 3-part posts she did (I need to figure out how to steal that chair when she’s not looking) and if you haven’t had the chance to read about it, I am highly recommending it today.

Carmel-by-the-Sea Cottages Home Tour

I wanted to share something special today for you and Carmel-by-the-Sea cottages seems made to order. It is a wonderful place in California with whimsical cottages and cobblestone streets. Carmel-by-the-Sea offers special “two hour guided tours through secret pathways, hidden courtyards, gardens, and enchanting fairytale cottages.” What a wonderful place to visit or live. Carmel-by-the-Sea has “historical homes of famous artists, writers and movie stars.”

There are houses and charming cottages aplenty there that may not be on the guided tours. So lets look at one for sale that I found and dream of cottages. The decorating inside this charming cottage has a lot of soft yellow tones that I like.

The color of the exterior is so pleasing and easy on the eyes and blends well with the landscaping and paver-brick drive and walkway.

Charming cottage walkway to the front door entrance. Let’s go inside.

High ceilings with a lot of light coming in and nice built-ins on either side of the fireplace.

Love how the table and chairs are nestled into the window seat that is filled with pillows. This is off the kitchen as seen in the below view.

An unusually shaped kitchen counter and cabinets that make good use of space.

How charming to have the lamps hanging over the sink.

Like the green wicker chairs. So far, every room is painted a similar tone of yellow. That makes it so easy to move accent pieces around the house to any room as you please.

Master bedroom. I notice some of the window treatments in other rooms have the same check valance pattern like the dining room as seen above and also the family room. Have you ever decorated your house like this.

Master bathroom with wonderful windows!

Another window seat. I read that and agree, there can never be too many window seats in a house. Darling ribbon painting above.

Backyard is professionally landscaped..I’ll take that! Same paver-bricks in the front of the house are on the backyard patio. I think the continuity inside and outside of this house is amazing and well done.

See what I mean about Carmel-by-the-Sea. It is simply a place of magic, like this dream come true pathway with full-grown ferns, hydrangeas, and charming wood bird houses.

This is a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 1,787 square foot house that exemplifies the Carmel-by-the-Sea lifestyle. It lists for $1,795,000 which is pricey, but we all know that the real estate in California is high.

I hope you were inspired and enjoyed this Carmel-by-the-Sea house tour. Another Carmel cottage post I did you might enjoy is here where I talk more about Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Thank you Vidya for the guest post.

Credits: Realtor.com

Carmel Walks

If you want to see more closeups of this Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage see this wonderful virtual tour