{"id":10799,"date":"2025-10-12T19:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/?p=10799"},"modified":"2025-10-12T19:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:11:29","slug":"autumn-cottages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/autumn-cottages\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Cottages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2:before,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2:after{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: table;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" ><div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_empty_space td_block_wrap vc_empty_space tdi_6 \"  style=\"height: 32px\"><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Photographer: <\/i><span class=\"s1\"><i>Ava Rymer <\/i><\/span><i>@<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/gingeredspice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gingeredspice<\/a><br \/>\nModel: Molly Katherine @<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/scarlett.o.hair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scarlett.o.hair<\/a><br \/>\n<\/i><i style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Gowns: Chotronette @<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/chotronette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chotronette<\/a><br \/>\n<\/i><i style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Florals: Mary Love with Love is in the Air @<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/loveisintheairevents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loveisintheairevents<\/a><br \/>\n<\/i><span class=\"s2\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"><i>Venue: <\/i><\/span><i style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Vaughan House Greenhouse &amp; Enchanted Cottage <\/i><span class=\"s2\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"><i>@<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/vaughanhouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vaughanhouse<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_separator td_block_wrap vc_separator tdi_8  td_separator_solid td_separator_center\"><span style=\"border-color:#EBEBEB;border-width:1px;width:100%;\"><\/span>\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.td_block_separator{\r\n                  width: 100%;\r\n                  align-items: center;\r\n                  margin-bottom: 38px;\r\n                  padding-bottom: 10px;\r\n                }.td_block_separator span{\r\n                  position: relative;\r\n                  display: block;\r\n                  margin: 0 auto;\r\n                  width: 100%;\r\n                  height: 1px;\r\n                  border-top: 1px solid #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_align_left span{\r\n                  margin-left: 0;\r\n                }.td_separator_align_right span{\r\n                  margin-right: 0;\r\n                }.td_separator_dashed span{\r\n                  border-top-style: dashed;\r\n                }.td_separator_dotted span{\r\n                  border-top-style: dotted;\r\n                }.td_separator_double span{\r\n                  height: 3px;\r\n                  border-bottom: 1px solid #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_shadow > span{\r\n                  position: relative;\r\n                  height: 20px;\r\n                  overflow: hidden;\r\n                  border: 0;\r\n                  color: #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_shadow > span > span{\r\n                  position: absolute;\r\n                  top: -30px;\r\n                  left: 0;\r\n                  right: 0;\r\n                  margin: 0 auto;\r\n                  height: 13px;\r\n                  width: 98%;\r\n                  border-radius: 100%;\r\n                }html :where([style*='border-width']){\r\n                    border-style: none;\r\n                }\n<\/style><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span class=\"dropcap dropcap2\">A<\/span> rose is a broom is a wand is a door. A door is an hour is a way into a bright burst of dreams that are color and magic and a new season, a new life, for an autumn queen tangled up in enchantments. The dryads have watched over our queen pictured here,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Molly Katherine, for how long? A week? A summer? A century? Long enough for her talisman rose to have darkened and her hair to have grown into the branches. With the first chill in the air, the magic that clings to her stirs\u2014<i>Wake<\/i><i> <\/i><i>up,<\/i><i> <\/i><i>wake<\/i><i> <\/i><i>up!<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Molly grips the stem of the rose. It is not the blossom that will return her fully to life; it is the thorns. So she dreams, \u2019til the stem transforms into the handle of a broom and the forest a familiar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">When she opens her eyes, her first thought is of home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">A stone dragon points the way. She and the broom take off \u2026 for a palace? No, no, no\u2014what she needs now is a cottage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">An enchanted one. She has plans to lay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Autumn is <i>the<\/i><i> <\/i>season of memories and plans. This is the time for looking back on the year thus far and dreaming up future magic. You gather mushrooms and firewood, the last foraging from the glen. Scour the windows, plump the pillows, set a soup pot to simmering. Settle in with a book or a craft and mull over who you\u2019ll be next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">There is no better place for a season\u2019s contemplation\u2014and reinvention\u2014than a cottage. We become our best selves in a meaningful space, one with a connection to the earth and the past, a place for contemplation, safety, comfort, the glow of hearth and heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\">Naturally, we would follow Molly just about anywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">We are lucky that she headed for one of our mutually favorite haunts, the Vaughan House near Lynchburg, Virginia. Their new cottage\u2014perfect for queens, fairies, witches, all manner of enchanted creature\u2014is just the place to regroup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In its traditional definition, a cottage is a small home without land. Other than that, it could be almost anything. It could cluster with others in a village; it might stand alone on a moor, in the middle of a forest, or the edge of a bog, maybe teeter at the top of a cliff or nestle into the rock just below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Cottages are history, fairy tales, romance, tradition, abundance. The pluckiest heroines (and most wizened witches) live in cottages. They\u2019ll take a palace, sure, once they\u2019ve earned<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">it\u2014but they start their lives the hardscrabble way and have to learn to value the so-called simpler things such as good bread and family love. Especially in a tale by Hans Christian Andersen or the Brothers Grimm, when a cottage might at first look to the characters like what we\u2019d call a hut, even a hovel: something mean and poor, a starting place rather than an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">I grew up with a version of \u201cHansel and Gretel\u201d that begins in such a hovel, where the parents cannot manage to put food on the table. When Mother and Father decide, regretfully, to send the children into the forest to fend for themselves, the kids make an unpromising start by using the bread in their supper basket for marking their path. There\u2019s a bit of good luck when they spot a cottage made out of glorious food\u2014what says \u201cWelcome home\u201d better than a beautiful meal? Plentiful food, full bellies, pleasure \u2026 It all sounds great to the resident witch too, as long as the children feed her in return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">It is <i>her<\/i><i> <\/i>cottage after all. <i>Her<\/i><i> <\/i>home. And just look at how creative she\u2019s been with building and decorating it. At the very least, the place continues to define ingenuity, as Hansel and Gretel use their wits to escape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">They return, of course, to the cottage where they were born, and their remorseful parents celebrate their arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">In a bustling world, we yearn for home, for simplicity free of the pressures that come with living crowded into cities, competing for space. We want a home with a personality, a sense of tradition verging on nostalgia (and what\u2019s wrong with remembering the best of the past? <i>Nothing<\/i>). Cottages are quaint in the best way, one-of-a-kind and picture-worthy: the walls half- timbered, rock-faced, wood-shingled, or coated in pebbly harling and tinted white or ochre; the roof thatched or slate-shingled, peaked, sturdy. Naturally sourced, connected to the earth, they are part of our autumn dreams, when we all want to be witches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">And our art and our stories. In Dutch master Adriaen van Ostade\u2019s <i>Cottage<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Dooryard<\/i><i> <\/i>of 1643, a father gazes over laundry, a chicken coop, a boy playing with a dog, a mother cleaning mussels, a daughter tending a younger sibling. It\u2019s a vision of life that is simply <i>life,<\/i><i> <\/i>a quiet contentment. Berthe Morisot took us indoors with her <i>Cottage<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Interior<\/i><i> <\/i>of 1886, in which the artist dares to show light colors, a table set for tea, and a girl framed in a doorway, moving from one space to another as she steps toward the transformation of young womanhood.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;10800&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;10803&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now step into <i>The Enchanted Cottage <\/i>of 1945, an early romantasy movie in which two disfigured lovers see each other as they really are inside. We know all along that Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young are meant for each other\u2014if only they weren\u2019t so determined to see themselves as homely. What do looks matter anyway? Well, just in case: The cottage shapeshifts their exteriors to match the gorgeous people they are deep down, and then\u2014even better\u2014they accept the love that\u2019s offered, and they become their true selves freed of concern about their appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">A dream cottage hovers behind every cascade of pink roses in a Pre-Raphaelite painting. John William Waterhouse\u2019s <i>Soul<\/i><i> <\/i><i>of the<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Rose<\/i><i> <\/i>(1908) is all sensory delight as a young woman revels in the pleasures of smell and touch; one hand cups the petals gently while the other digs into the rough wall as if to say that she\u2019s ready for all experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Claude Monet\u2019s 1925 <i>House<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Among<\/i><i> <\/i><i>the<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Roses<\/i><i> <\/i>is a quintessential impressionist confection celebrated in suggestive strokes of color, not rigid forms and boundaries. It depicts the house where the artist lived in Giverny\u2014rather, a <i>portion<\/i><i> <\/i>of that house, for the whole home is quite grand. In painting just a portion of it, he created an intimacy and dizzy lyricism to hint that even those who can afford something fancy prefer a cottage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Inside, a cottage is just right for serious work too. Agatha Christie\u2019s Miss Marple lives in the last cottage on Old Pasture Lane. From the comforts of her tea table and easy chair, she puts chaos into order by solving all manner of nasty murders inside cozy novels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Where does Rat live in <i>The<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Wind<\/i><i> <\/i><i>in<\/i><i> <\/i><i>the<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Willows<\/i>? Sure, it\u2019s called an underground home, the <i>Dulce<\/i><i> <\/i><i>Domum,<\/i><i> <\/i>a burrow\u2014but look at the pictures Kenneth Grahame\u2019s novel inspires. You\u2019ll see books and fireplaces, a cupboard bed with a curtain to draw snug, a simple table where Rat can write poetry. Inside, it\u2019s all cottage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">In our photo story, Queen Molly makes one transformation on her way into the cottage, another once she\u2019s in it. Tugging at the door isn\u2019t enough to gain entrance; you can\u2019t just assume that the cottage is waiting for you. So she sleeps in the courtyard and wakes to embrace the season in its riot of ruddy color, its abundance of pumpkins and gourds, seed pods and stone. Only then does she find the home she didn\u2019t know she was seeking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">You know you live in a cottage. Whatever it\u2019s called, whatever it\u2019s made of, it\u2019s your safe space, your bastion and refuge, your <i>locus<\/i><i> <\/i><i>amoenus<\/i><i> <\/i>of inspiration. Open the window; let the brisk air scour out the cobwebs (the ones no one is using, anyway). Fill it with the season\u2019s flowers and pictures and books; hang herbs to dry from the rafters and do your housework barefoot. Or leave the walls blank and let the space speak for itself. If your home is an apartment, let it be a cottage of the mind; its physical shape means next to nothing when it follows the heart of its occupant. No matter how big or small, if there\u2019s room for a stack of books, you have a library like the one where our Molly curls up to lose herself in other worlds and lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">We consider autumn to be the kindest season. After summer wanderings, you return home to anchor yourself in your community. That pot of soup that Molly cooked up a few hours ago\u2014surely there\u2019s someone in the village who could use a bowl. The queen will bring it over herself with a heavy round loaf of bread, stepping carefully around the marshy places in the path.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Our Molly may flirt with spectacular gowns stitched together from fae wishes and laughter, but she ends dressed for practical tasks, perched in the kitchen with a mug of tea. Ballgowns and rubies are all very fine, she thinks, but kindness is an art too, and its own sort of luxury. She\u2019s really just at the start of her fairy tale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">Let the autumn magic begin.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_cta h2=&#8221;Subscribe!&#8221; txt_align=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;flat&#8221; color=&#8221;grey&#8221; add_button=&#8221;bottom&#8221; btn_title=&#8221;Subscribe Today!&#8221; btn_style=&#8221;flat&#8221; btn_color=&#8221;mulled-wine&#8221; btn_align=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; btn_button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; btn_link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fenchantedlivingmag.com%2Fcollections%2Fsubscribe|target:_blank|rel:nofollow&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img data-dominant-color=\"3a322b\" data-has-transparency=\"true\" style=\"--dominant-color: #3a322b;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10692 size-medium aligncenter has-transparency\" src=\"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-2.50.55-PM-231x300.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-2.50.55-PM-231x300.avif 231w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-2.50.55-PM-789x1024.avif 789w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-2.50.55-PM-768x997.avif 768w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-2.50.55-PM-1183x1536.avif 1183w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-2.50.55-PM-324x420.avif 324w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-2.50.55-PM-696x903.avif 696w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-2.50.55-PM-1068x1386.avif 1068w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-2.50.55-PM.avif 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><i>Enchanted Living<\/i><\/em> is a quarterly print magazine that celebrates all things enchanted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Subscribe now and begin with our Cottage Witch <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/em><b style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/b><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">issue!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_cta][vc_single_image image=&#8221;10801&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_column_text css=\"\"] Photographer: Ava Rymer @gingeredspice Model: Molly Katherine @scarlett.o.hair Gowns: Chotronette @chotronette Florals: Mary Love with Love is in the Air @loveisintheairevents Venue: Vaughan House Greenhouse &amp; Enchanted Cottage @vaughanhouse [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=\"\"]A rose is a broom is a wand is a door. 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