Small Spaces
Apartment tour: Cottage style charm
Image: Ashley Capp
Small Spaces
Apartment tour: Cottage style charm
Decorator Michael Penney helps to fill a space with cottage-style charm.
Last year, when Jenny Smith moved into her apartment above a shop in downtown Whitby, Ont., she owned not a single stick of furniture. Having just relocated back home from Alberta (with a mere two suitcases full of belongings), she almost immediately rented the two-bedroom space after she fell for its rustic exposed brick walls, high ceilings, hardwood floors and arched windows.
It took Jenny only a few weeks to furnish the 700-square-foot pad, thanks not only to her love of thrift shopping and bargain hunting (“I found the living room sectional on Kijiji for only $200,” she says. “It was in amazing shape.”) but also to her new job at local decor store Penney & Company. There, she became fast friends with the owner, decorator Michael Penney, who shares Jenny’s cottage-style aesthetic and love of all things vintage.
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