The Maine Cottage Difference
For 20 years, Maine Cottage has been home to colorful, well-designed, premium quality home furnishings perfect for coastal homes - all made and/or finished here in the USA. We're happy you discovered us. We know you will delight in us because we do the unthinkable: we make home decorating fun and easy.

Peruse our website, call us, plan a trip to visit one of our company stores, send your house plans or blue prints. Let us help you furnish a room or your whole home. We make it easy to create the flexible, comfortable, attractive spaces you need for everyday living, entertaining visiting friends and family.

We provide friendly, experienced, thoughtful solutions, color chips to ponder and fabric samples to assist you in your decision-making process. We know your time is precious and you don't want to worry. We'll help you every step of the way - or as much as you would like - through to a professional delivery and installation in your home. You will be wowed by the results. You and your beautiful home may become the envy of your friends.

Great Color, Great Quality
We've delighted customers for 20 years by filling rooms and entire homes with our vibrant, easy-to-live-with, timeless style. We design, market and deliver with the highest standards fine furniture in hardwood, rattan and upholstery. All of our products are made and/or finished here in the USA. We also style colorful home textiles, original fabrics and other home furnishing products in our signature style.

With your choice of 40 colors and over 200 fabrics we make buying and owning our beautiful, custom furniture an enjoyable, satisfying experience. Maine Cottage colors and fabrics are easy to mix and match and fit in well with the furnishings you may already own.

Even in Blue, Maine Cottage is Green
Maine Cottage furniture is made and/or finished here in the USA. With 20 years of thoughtful, conservationist business practices behind us, you can feel good about Maine Cottage. We've always said "Even in blue, our furniture is green." We do it because it feels right to us. View our Green Statement as a PDF.

A Brief History
How did it all begin? And what did it take for us to build a home furnishings business from scratch?

It took vision: provided for us by artist and designer Carol Bass when she saw photo stylists painting 'found' cottage furniture to add color to presentations in home decorating magazines.

It also required a plan: developed and executed by our founder and president Peter Bass who saw parallels in the footwear and apparel business that presaged opportunities for marketers of colorful, casual home furnishings to a new generation of consumers who grew up with color magazines, TV and movies.

We opened for business 20 years ago here in Yarmouth, Maine with these basic ingredients plus samples of eleven furniture designs prototyped by a carpenter named ‘Cookie’, five bold colors from Carol’s paint palette, and an offer from a friend to design the first brochure for free.

We've come a long way. The vision, the plan, some good fortune and the enthusiastic energy and dedication of Maine Cottage people has resulted in a flourishing company with two company stores, seventy retailers nationwide, fifteen hundred design professional customers, and delighted customers across the country.

Behind the Scenes
We regularly accept generous compliments and even awards for our print catalogs. Many people assume we use an agency to produce the photography in our beautiful catalogs. The truth is, we've been doing it all ourselves in-house for 20 years now with a dedicated, creative, fun-loving (and very hard-working) crew of Maine Cottage people and the helpful expertise of a skilled, professional and local photographer Dennis Welsh, denniswelsh.com.

Maine Cottage room photography takes place in and around the Greater Portland area in "borrowed" private homes of friends and friends-of-friends and sometimes right here in our Yarmouth store. Furnishings are made to order and styled by room type with complementary accessories, then adapted to a space. There are many challenges to working in this way rather than the more typical, generic studio photography, and the results speak for themselves. The photography is as original, fresh and inviting as our Maine Cottage furnishings and style. We have hands-on high standards for nearly everything we do here at Maine Cottage.