Cottage rental in Mill Valley, California - Charming Vintage Cottage Featured in Creative Home Magazine in Mill Valley - Property 255067

The cottage is built with rough old growth redwood plank walls and beamed ceilings enameled a luminous white. The Douglas fir floors have been whitewashed to a soft pink glow. Generous windows, French doors and the dining room’s glass solarium ceiling flood the interior with warm light filtered through the verdure of a mature garden with climbing roses and wisteria clambering over rooftops and arbors. In the living room, a comfortable banquette with down pillows, English antique reading chairs and a French Louis XV style brocade love seat circle a wood-burning fireplace. We created the coffee table from a salvaged slab of antique mahogany. Across the room, built-in bookshelves house a collection of art and design books. A bird’s eye maple drop leaf desk holds Bay Area trail maps and guidebooks.

A wide archway joins the living room with the music room, featuring a 5 ft. grand piano and furnished with a velvet chaise and an English-style overstuffed sofa. The exterior wall of floor-to-ceiling 1920’s vintage black steel multi-pane casement windows is softened with antique Italian lace curtains. The beautiful green light from the windows is reflected in a wall-size mirror over the sofa. A step down from the music room is the solarium dining room, with a rough-hewn antique farm table and vintage metal Chinese Chippendale garden chairs. The solarium continues the music room’s steel casement windows, wrapping around to the back of the cottage, where French doors lead to an ipe-wood deck furnished with teak garden benches, Adirondack chair and marble coffee table. The dining room and the deck share a glass solarium roof that is covered in white roses and wisteria each spring.

A half-wall bookcase housing our collection of garden books divides the dining room from a small media room with a comfortable twin daybed sofa for watching the 42” HD plasma TV with home theater sound system. You may view the TV from the dining room, or draw vintage floral chintz drapes across the opening. There are CD and DVD players, a selection of music and videos, and a wide range of premium cable channels including HBO, Showtime, AMC, IFC, Retroplex, On Demand, etc. There is high speed WIFI internet service for your laptop computer, and a jack for playing your iPod or MP3 player through the stereo system. The media room can be used as a twin bedroom, with the daybed sofa made up with a memory foam mattress topper, high thread-count linens, down pillow, quilt and down duvet. The first floor bathroom is adjacent to this room.