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Step 1
Distressed cottage furniture is new furniture that is made to appear antique and then made into cottage furniture. There is a lot of cottage furniture that can be bought distressed, and you probably would not know the difference.
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Step 2
When you think of cottage furniture, memories may flood back to you of places you have been to when you were young or older and on vacation. You probably wondered if you would ever resort to buying a home and filling it with distressed furniture to give it the rustic look. On the other hand, you may have considered buying a second home in some remote small community and want to fill that house with distressed furniture.
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Step 3
Whatever your reason for choosing distressed furniture, it provides an inexpensive way to have antique-like furniture in your home. The discerning eye may or may not notice the distressed furniture in your cottage. Your friends will enjoy the rustic environment it creates, and endless gratification can be derived while sitting on a distressed chair.
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Step 4
In fact, almost anything you put in a cottage or summer home can give it a distressed cottage feel. An antique is considered a piece of furniture that is more than one hundred years old. If you rummage through a garage sale, or an antique shop and stumble upon an old piece of furniture (i.e,. chairs, tables, bed frames, side tables), it may not be a hundred years old but it can be distressed naturally. The particular piece of furniture could have been exposed to the elements for years and finally brought out of the hot and cold and put on consignment.
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Step 5
The natural distressed and distressed furniture in cottages make a home rustic. The different distressed pieces of furniture are a tribute to nature’s ingenuity and man’s. When both of them meet, some may not be able to tell the difference. The result is what is important. When you make or buy a distressed dresser, chair, table, etc., it transmutes the cottage into a breathtaking home that people can enjoy when a country style setting is realized.
