From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Accessories

Vintage doorknob coat rack

Mag­a­zines tend to stick around here at Cot­tage Life – you never know where you’ll find inspi­ra­tion. For exam­ple, senior designer Steven Bal­a­ban was flip­ping through an old issue of This Old House and found a great piece on vin­tage metal door­knobs, which included some his­tory on the hard­ware and a DIY coat rack project. As luck […]

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Green Cottage Living

Easy-​​care Ultrasuede goes green

Dura­bil­ity and easy clean­abil­ity are very impor­tant in cot­tage sofas and chairs. Uphol­stery has to stand up to sandy paws and spilt lemon­ade, and it can’t be too hard to clean up after them. Ultra­suede fits the bill, and now it even gets bonus points for being more earth friendly.
The tex­tile com­pany of the same […]

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Accessories

trompe l’oeil barbeque covers

Bar­beque cov­ers are usu­ally as bland and ugly as the bar­be­ques they pro­tect, but this one from PC Home is delight­fully amus­ing – a faux pile of logs. The cover also comes in a shrub pat­tern, and runs from $9.99 for a small to $49.99 for an extra-​​​​large size.

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Entertaining

poor man’s crystal

My mother has a beau­ti­ful iris-​​​​patterned pressed glass pitcher that I’ve had my eye on for years. Some day I hope to con­vince her that I should have it, but until then, I may just have to pick up a few vintage-​​​​inspired pieces of my own, like these gob­lets ($3 each) from HomeSense.

BTW, we had a story on col­lectible glass, including […]

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Accessories

seen at the Spring 2009 Cottage Life show

Well, I sur­vived my first Cot­tage Life show. It was a lot of work but we had tons of fun, and it was great to meet so many won­der­ful read­ers! I spent some time on Sat­ur­day walk­ing the show and found some styl­ish goods to add to my shop­ping wish list.

Eldo Baumeis­ter at Muskoka Jew­elry, based in Parry Sound, […]

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