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Welcome to the Cottage.

The Tiny Canal Cottage is a resource that helps folks mindfully conceptualize, decorate and enjoy versatile, smaller home spaces. The Cottage was founded by consultant, stylist, creative director and author, Whitney Leigh Morris, whose focus is crafting flexible, sustainable, and more community-focused home spaces. Explore Whitney’s Substack, book, blog, and social channels for ideas that explore joyful, mindful ways to live in — and with — a smaller footprint.

Sustainable, DIY Mini Christmas Tree

Sustainable, DIY Mini Christmas Tree

In these days leading up to the holiday break, when so many of us want to welcome that festive feeling without spending money or contributing to overflowing waste bins, this is a simple, lovely, adaptable DIY / craft activity for both adults and little ones: Mini Holiday Trees!

Just pop over to your local tree farm / vendor and ask if they wouldn’t mind you scooping up some remnant branches and stumps from around their sawing station.

There might already be a hole in the slices of the tree trunks from display stands at the vendor. If not, just drill one or more in which to pop branches, either all together (like a shallow vase), or independently (like a floral frog).

Add a battery-operated or rechargeable faux-candle or light strands for a hint of safe glow, along with leftover ornaments, earrings or tags and voila! You have a compostable, ever-changable, mini holiday tree for festive flare around your home and garden.

Happy holidays!

Our New Cottage's Combo Bathroom + Laundry Room

Our New Cottage's Combo Bathroom + Laundry Room

Designing an Adaptable, Built-in, Small Space Sofa

Designing an Adaptable, Built-in, Small Space Sofa