Cottagecore Rentals: Where to Find a Slower, Simpler Stay

Internet micro-trends come and go, but cottagecore has stuck around. The aesthetic went mainstream around 2020, when people in quarantine began romanticizing a return to simpler living-baking sourdough, growing vegetables, and picking up analog hobbies like reading and knitting.

That lifestyle carries over into interior design: antique furniture, patchwork quilts, patterned wallpaper, and wild gardens. Hotels such as The Six Bells in Rosendale, New York, embrace the whimsical country-house fantasy.

Cottagecore-inspired rentals are especially popular in New York's Hudson Valley and Catskill regions, along with rural pockets of New England. Restored farmhouses in the South and coastal beach houses on the West Coast also carry cottagecore touches. The advice is simple: look for any pastoral setting suited to a cottage or cabin.