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Making the most of our 900 sq ft cottage — with small-space ideas, approachable home projects, cottage decorating, recipes we love, and everyday life along the way.

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Making Room

Love the home you have.

You don’t need more square footage to create a home that works beautifully for your life. I created 'Making Room' to help you see the possibilities in the home you already have-and make room for the life you want to live there.

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Ideas for making the most of the home you have, inside and out.

Small-space living

SMALL-SPACE LIVING

Making the most of every square foot.

Cottage decorating

COTTAGE DECORATING

Creating a home that feels collected and lived in.

DIY and projects

DIY + PROJECTS

Approachable projects that make home work better.

Beyond the cottage walls

BEYOND THE COTTAGE WALLS

Making our outdoor spaces an extension of home.

  

    From the Kitchen   

  

    Bread Machine Recipes   

  

    Simple, foolproof breads made right in the bread machine.   

 

sourdough bread machine recipe

How to make crusty sourdough in the bread machine 

doughnut dough

The BEST Bread Machine Donuts | Cinnamon Sugar Flavored!

HOW TO MAKE BAGELS USING A BREAD MACHINE

The BEST Bagel Bread Machine recipe | simple and easy!

How to make hot dog buns using your bread machine

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Life lately

Little moments from around our cottage + what we’ve been up to lately.

Making Room. A guide to living well in a small ho Making Room.

A guide to living well in a small home. 

This started with our little 900 sq ft cottage, but really, it came from years of trying to figure out how to make the home we already had work for the life we were actually living.

Not how to make a small house work forever.

Not how to convince yourself you’ll never need more space.

Just how to stop waiting on “someday” long enough to look at the home you have right now and ask what could work differently.

Tomorrow, I get to share it with you. 

If I can’t do it small, how will I ever do it big? 🩵

Making Room launches tomorrow!!!! Eeek!!! 

#smallhome #cottage #guide #digitaldownload #motherhood
I’m not waiting for a different house. I’m making I’m not waiting for a different house. I’m making room for our life in this one.

Maybe making room was never about having more room.

Maybe it was about learning how to use the room we already had for the life we actually wanted to live.

And somewhere along the way, that idea became something bigger than our little house.

I’ve been working on something—and I finally get to share it with you THIS WEEK 😭🏡 friends!!! 

P.S..if you want to see it before everyone else, comment FIRST and I’ll send you the early access link 🩵

#smallhome #cottage #motherhood #smallhouse #makingroom
We moved nearly every piece of furniture for this We moved nearly every piece of furniture for this rug 😂 But I love how it looks with all the patterns in our little living room! 

This rug was gifted from the new fall @chrislovesjulia x @loloirugs collection, which launches today! @fromclj 

Comment ‘rug’ if you want me to send it over 🍂
swapping this room to be our bedroom was honestly swapping this room to be our bedroom was honestly the best decision for our small home. The morning light in here is so so good. The curtains make it feel cozy + luxurious 😍 they let just the right amount of light in! 

They’re the Dolly style in natural cream from @unicurt_curtain_ 🤎
our small cottage porch is ready for fall 🍂 Truly our small cottage porch is ready for fall 🍂

Truly one of my favorite spots to unwind and decorate seasonally. I don’t do a ton of seasonal decor inside our little cottage because I just don’t have the storage for it, but the porch is where I love bringing in plants, pumpkins + a few cozy pieces for the season. 

found a few sweet pieces at @athomestores to cozy it up for the season. 🤎

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Week THREEEEE ☕️🏡 Because in 900 square feet, ev Week THREEEEE ☕️🏡 

Because in 900 square feet, everything is paying rent around here! 

Something I had to learn: Don’t keep things just because you *technically* have somewhere to shove them. 🤪

Let the things you bring in your home earn its keep. Some things earn their space because we use them constantly. Some things earn it because they can do two jobs. And some things… we can just buy more of next Tuesday. 

I’m not trying to own the least amount possible. Or be a minimalist. I just want the things in our home to make sense for the life we actually live. 🩵

What’s something you stopped storing once you realized you really didn’t need to?

#smallhome #cottage #motherhood #family #smallhouse
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our little blue homestead/ our little blue cottage

Hi, I’m Caitlyn!

A wife and mom of three, making the most of our 900 sq ft little blue cottage.

I share how we make our small home work for a family of five, the projects and decorating that make it feel like us, recipes from our kitchen, and plenty of everyday life along the way.

Because you don’t need more square footage to love where you live.

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ourlittlebluecottage@cmgworldwide.com

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