The English Cottage Collection

My name is Debra and my love for old things, beautiful décor and the passion for finding treasures is what brings me here! There isn’t anything I like to do more in my spare time, than decorate my home or go to a flea market, estate sale or auction. The joy of buying, collecting and selling has brought me to creating this website!

I truly am grateful for my new website endeavor and eBay, as I was mainly a buyer for many years. I love the selling aspect and launching of this site, it’s “another” outlet for sharing my finds. You can also visit me: http://vintagetwocollectives.com/

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/thenglishcottage, my blog spot: http://thenglishcottage.blogspot.com/ , and The Agoura Antique Mart in Agoura, CA. My website and blog spot are new endeavors and are a work in progress! I strive to be the best that I can be as a seller ~to offer unusual~beautiful items and to be honest, fair, communicative, and to offer the most reasonable packaging and shipping rates. I want my buyers to be nothing less than very happy…

I would like to tell you a little bit about myself, my home and what I like to offer. My home is really an extension of who I am, what I like and what I buy ~to sell. So, if I see something and I would like it for myself or in “my” home, then “I buy it”. My home is also a constant work in progress…I will never be done, that’s why I love what I do! Most of what I buy I would just as soon keep, but you know…you just can’t keep everything! I love WHITE slip-covered and upholstered furniture and accessories, sharing

space with dark wood floors, dark wood furniture and rich dark accent pieces. I like to use natural elements such as branches, twigs, orchids, nests of all kinds, mosses and horn sheds.

Some of my personal collecting and selling passions are white ironstone, brown transfer ware, old trophies, and antique leather books…lots of leather books! Other decorating passions are old chippy~ white garden cement, old wire baskets, tarnished silver, alabaster lamps and grapes, old alarm clocks, trophies, etched mirrors and estate jewelry made hip, just to mention a few!

I love to decorate in the styles of Romantic cottage, Beach cottage, Paris Apt., Shabby chic decor and European Country.

It’s important to surround yourself with things of comfort, and to be able to relax and be comfortable when at home. ~You want your home to feel like you are in the best vacation spot ever!!

I hope you’ll find many things to choose from~ to decorate, enjoy, comfort and surround yourself with “from me to you”!!

I will try to consistently list treasures as I go on getaway buying trips, travel to shows and on hunting sprees!!

A BIG thank you to all of you who have visited or bought from me in the past and have become my friends on this new journey~