Country Living

Rooms that invite you to linger. Vintage collectibles displayed with love. A colorful easy-care garden. A porch that says "Come sit!" All yours in the pages of Country Living!

Country Living

Simple Country Pleasures

Dogs on Porches • Whether basking in the sun or surveying the scenery, our four-legged friends can teach us humans a thing or two about sitting a spell.

How to Name a Country Dog • No disrespect to the Cocos and Cupcakes of the world, but they sound like city slickers. For a more down-to-earth designation, consider one of these categories.

A Breezy Blue Kitchen • When it was time to update her 1960s home, designer Molly Singer embraced the advice she’s been dishing out for decades.

Café Curtains • These happily humble window coverings serve up charm all through the house.

A Farmhouse in the Country • With their pretty pastoral settings and potential-filled outbuildings, these properties may convince even lifelong city slickers to hail an Uber and head upstate.

Counter Culture • From patterned butter dishes to figural cow creamers, these kitchen collectibles are sure to serve up a full helping of nostalgia.

The Stuff of Life • In her latest book, author Mary Randolph Carter celebrates one-of-a-kind collected interiors from coast to coast, including her own colorful country kitchen.

What Is It? What Is It Worth? • Our team of antiques experts weighs in on your treasured finds.

Have a Heart • Peel back the layers and indulge in artichokes in ways beyond the dip.

All Set for Spring • Cookbook author and Top Chef winner Kelsey Barnard Clark takes to her Alabama backyard for a laid-back lunch.

Strawberry Cake

Growing Together • A family of creatives relocates from California to Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee, to transform a historic farmstead into a community gathering place.

Bluffton, South Carolina • Fifteen minutes west of Hilton Head Island, this once sleepy river town turned rising Lowcountry star celebrates the history and eccentricities of life along the marshes.

Garden Sanctuary • With its soaring windows and centuries-old brick, an English greenhouse–inspired retreat offers both respite and renewal.

Hog Heaven • A pair of rescued pigs reminds author DéLana R.A. Dameron that home is where the heart roams.

Stitch It Yourself!

A TALE OF TWO COTTAGES • When a mother and daughter find side-by-side shingled escapes on the Cape, it’s a dream come true times two.

MEMORY keeper • When a Connecticut designer and antiques dealer has the chance to revive a property she’s been smitten with all her life, the end result is a thoughtful remodel that reflects more love than labor.

Almost Heaven, West Virginia • In the Allegheny Mountains, a new-build Greek Revival at the famed Greenbrier resort evokes the property’s rich history while feeling firmly rooted in the present.

ALMANAC • A SEASONAL COMPENDIUM OF EVERYDAY KNOW-HOW

PRIZE RECIPES • WINNING FARE TO MAKE AND SHARE

RESOURCES • YOUR GO-TO GUIDE FOR REPLICATING THE LOOKS IN THIS ISSUE

From the Archives: March 1986