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The Scoop: Nestled right in the heart of Virginia Highland, this "creative lifestyle boutique" could easily serve as a model home for the neighborhood. Artsy, eclectic, laid-back, yet refined. It’s where all those hip, young moms park their strollers out front, grab a soy latte next door, and come in to drool over vintage-chic lamps, custom-designed tables, artwork, kitchenware.... All the unique furnishings that say, "No, no, fabulous dinner guests, I'd NEVER buy from a catalog. This is all ME.”
Scout Notes: Walking around this neighborhood, it's easy to play the "pick your perfect house" game. Choosing which little well-kept bungalow would be yours if you simply "had to pick". Then picturing what you'd be doing right now in that home. Maybe whipping up your famous Mint Juleps. Hosting a dinner party for all the neighbors. Watching another pleasant sunset from that front porch swing. And where would such a picture-perfect home-owner shop? Why, just around the corner at Urban Cottage.
The boutique is in an actual VaHi bungalow, providing a perfect interior vision to your said dream home. Colored glass lamps, brightly embroidered pillows, custom-design furniture, bedding, cookbooks, kitchenware, local artwork.... It really just depends which room you’re browsing through here. Head back past the living and dining room set-up, to the back boudoir of girlie frocks (“The Little Black Dress Room”) and bathroom full of yummy-scented soaps and lotions. The bedrooms downstairs that beckons you for a mid-shopping nap. Vintage jewelry from local artists are sprinkled throughout and owner Jessica has her own line of greeting cards ("Breathless Paper") right near the register. She sums up the style of her Urban Cottage as "creative". And if "creative" encompasses that eclectic yet clean, folky but refined, modern-vintage upscale Virginia-Highland feel, then yes... Urban Cottage is definitely creative.
And fitting that it's set up in that quintessential bungalow as such, because this isn't just another furniture store and gift shop; they’re selling a lifestyle here. Or at least the pieces of that lifestyle you can purchase to achieve your own (real-life) dream home.
Scout Notes: Walking around this neighborhood, it's easy to play the "pick your perfect house" game. Choosing which little well-kept bungalow would be yours if you simply "had to pick". Then picturing what you'd be doing right now in that home. Maybe whipping up your famous Mint Juleps. Hosting a dinner party for all the neighbors. Watching another pleasant sunset from that front porch swing. And where would such a picture-perfect home-owner shop? Why, just around the corner at Urban Cottage.
The boutique is in an actual VaHi bungalow, providing a perfect interior vision to your said dream home. Colored glass lamps, brightly embroidered pillows, custom-design furniture, bedding, cookbooks, kitchenware, local artwork.... It really just depends which room you’re browsing through here. Head back past the living and dining room set-up, to the back boudoir of girlie frocks (“The Little Black Dress Room”) and bathroom full of yummy-scented soaps and lotions. The bedrooms downstairs that beckons you for a mid-shopping nap. Vintage jewelry from local artists are sprinkled throughout and owner Jessica has her own line of greeting cards ("Breathless Paper") right near the register. She sums up the style of her Urban Cottage as "creative". And if "creative" encompasses that eclectic yet clean, folky but refined, modern-vintage upscale Virginia-Highland feel, then yes... Urban Cottage is definitely creative.
And fitting that it's set up in that quintessential bungalow as such, because this isn't just another furniture store and gift shop; they’re selling a lifestyle here. Or at least the pieces of that lifestyle you can purchase to achieve your own (real-life) dream home.
