Create Your Own Sanctuary

"Highlighting our Cottage Bay Collection"

Coming home should be like opening the door to your own sanctuary. A place where you can escape from the stresses of everyday life. Color enlivens. It transports you to a different place and state of mind by soothing, energizing and refreshing your senses. With its high-quality, fresh and colorful interpretations of classical furniture styles, our Cottage Bay Collection encourages you to use color in new ways and exciting combinations. Coach Barn shows you how. Just peak behind the curtain and inside our store ...






With its turned legs and antiqued hardware, the Durango Console is perfectly scaled and sized to sit beneath a window or behind a sofa. Shown in Jelly Bean Green but available in any of our Cottage Bay Collection's 17 unique hand finishes.






The planked Catskill Cocktail Table makes a dramatic statement with its bold scale and vibrant Blueberry Crisp finish. The bright blue color blends seamlessly with the more subdued green tones of the Crisfield End Table shown here in the Key Lime Pie finish.





Combine a little traditional West Indies design with a coastal color palette and you get this sweet Folly Beach Cabinet. The two-door cabinet is finished in a delectable aqua hue called Cotton Candy.









The Sagamore Console exemplifies our Cottage Bay Collection's talent for revitalizing and interpreting traditional furniture in a fashion-forward way. The  legs and the feet of the table reflect William and Mary styling, but the detailing on the stretcher keeps the piece from being labeled traditional. The stretcher is formed from a trio of interlocking rings and a pair of half circles.





At 102 inches, the Double Pedestal Killington Dining Table is fit for a feast and a crowd. But there's no need to sacrifice style for serving space. The bright-white Powdered Sugar finish lends a feeling of airiness to this large table.







Just because you're all grown up doesn't mean you can't enjoy the whimsy of a dollhouse. The Greenwich Cupboard was inspired by a precious antique. It's actually at home in a child's bedroom or an adult living space. The cupboard, shown in buttery-toned Creme Brulee, is the epitome of a conversation piece.

Painted Furniture Adds More Than Just Color

by The Coach Barn Designers

Painted furniture adds more than just color to your room. When it is artfully applied, it alters the very nature of the piece often evoking another time and place. With various hand-applied crackle and distressed finishes, new furniture can achieve an old, antique look. As far as color, there is probably no color more associated with country decor than the color blue. It's been a classic element of country design that has stood the test of time. But it's not just fabrics and accessories that can give you a true-blue country look--antique blue furniture can definitely create interest in your country home. You can either fill up a room or just use it as an accent piece. In addition, you can combine it with other colors. We offer several blue finishes including one of our best-selling colors, Antique Blue. Another decorating tip is to add one or two black accent pieces in a room for a professional decorated look. Depending on your personal taste and to what extent you would like to achieve an antiquated look, we offer several finish options with none, minimal or heavy distressing to add texture and depth to a color.

As far as incorporating painted furniture in a home, not too many rules apply; it could work in any room in the house. You will want to consider the overall color scheme of the space and choose paints that harmonize. One piece can make a bold statement, while several -- a dining table and chairs or a coffee table and console, for example -- can work as a set. Painted wooden furniture can also complement exposed-grain pieces, each highlighting the other. We particularly recommend the combination of our black, antique blue or celadon Dijon Chairs or Tenby Splat Back Chairs with our Highlands Pine Vineyard Table. We also recommend adding one of our kitchen islands to totally transform your kitchen into a Dream Kitchen! A kitchen island serves many purposes by giving you both extra storage and work areas along with providing you with an entertaining area where family and guests would gather for memorable conversations. We suggest adding a pair of our French Montmartre Counter Stools to match the finish of your island (see our own Mayfair Kitchen Island above).

Have confidence that your furniture will never go out of style. Pieces have been painted for hundreds of years in Europe and America and they are sure to stand the test of time. Coach Barn offers you a large selection of furniture pieces that can be customized with over 25 unique finishes including a 15-step hand-applied finish of a single antique color over a dark-base coat crackled with distressing. Craftsmen beautifully apply hand distressed finishes that artfully reveal layers of rich color. So use your imagination and add some furniture pieces that are new but are made to appear old to add special decorating touches throughout your home.

To show the fine craftsmanship of our furniture pieces, above are samples of finishes offered in our European Reproduction Furniture Collection including our Mayfair Kitchen Island in Terra Cotta Canterbury Crackle.

With nothing more to the bathrooms of yesteryear than a sink, toilet, and mirror, we were offered little choice about where our focus should fall once through the bathroom door.

The Afterthought

The bathroom used to be the afterthought of home building and design. Bathroom design kept to the basics: A toilet, sink-cabinet combo, and perhaps some tile. Add some color matching, a couple of wall hangings, and of course, the mirror, and voila: your task was complete!

In hindsight, designing yesterday’s bathroom was really a simple and efficient process that was uninspiring, unimaginative and dull.

With limited choices and prohibitive pricing, vanities of distinction rarely entered the equation for a homeowner.

The Fine Furniture Revolution

The rethinking of bathroom designs came with the increasing availability of reasonably-priced middle and high-end vanity sink chests. With foreign imports driving down the cost and increasing the availability of fine furniture for every room in the home, builders and consumers began to consider investing more design dollars in the room guests very often visit -- the powder room. By choosing vanity styles to coincide with their home's overall design genre, consumers have driven expansion in the vanity/sink chest market that produced a bevy of elegant and affordable products. English Cottage vanities, French Provincial style sink chests, and hand-painted and hand-carved furniture sinks -- the vanity market has truly embraced the realm of fine furniture. Never before have vanity choices been so plentiful or bathroom sink design concepts so broad. It's not the usual sink and cabinet combo anymore -- it's a whole new ball game.

A Statement Piece - A Statement Place

Make your vanity a virtue and let your vanity make a statement about you. Make a gorgeous vanity the focal point of your bath, and with a painted canvas work of art, some carefully contemplated accessories, and perhaps even a beautiful chandelier, allow the bathroom to complement your taste and your commitment to design throughout your home.

Don’t reflect too long before deciding it’s time for a beautiful furniture vanity in your fine home. I promise you’ll love yourself for it! The top left picture is our English Cottage Vanity, the top right picture is our Petite Perigord Vanity and the bottom left picture is our Bow Front Vanity.