From the monthly archives:

December 2009

News

A great colour for a happy new year

Pan­tone names turquoise colour of the year for 2010.

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Accessories

Candles for cottagers

How to choose the best can­dles for your cottage

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Lighting

Reusing old hockey sticks

In our Win­ter 2009 issue, we showed you how to make a coat rack using old hockey sticks. The project was a hit at our Fall Show, and lots of atten­dees seemed keen to tackle the rack them­selves, and a few sug­gested improve­ments. One attendee men­tioned they’d vary the stick lengths so that there are some low, kid-​​​​accessible […]

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Accessories

Embroidered ant pillows: A perfect picnic perch!

I recently came across these pil­lows, by Toronto tex­tile designer Bev Hisey.

So play­ful! I have a soft spot for trompe l’oeil, and these embroi­dered ants are more than wel­come at any cot­tage pic­nic I’m attend­ing (or in any cot­tage ham­mock, for that mat­ter). I won­der if they’d deter the real things from pop­ping by?
The pil­lows are avail­able through Hisey’s website.

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DIY

DIY Wool Blanket">DIY Wool Blanket

I wanted to share with you my cur­rent DIY project: a wool blan­ket. I was vis­it­ing my favourite fab­ric store (Len’s Mill in Port Dover) and I came across a fab­u­lous black, red, and cream tar­tan. Right away I thought it would make a great blan­ket.
After squar­ing up the piece (easy to do because of the pat­tern), I began blan­ket stitch­ing around […]

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Green Cottage Living

Register Grates That Might Be Too Nice for the Floor

Reg­is­ter grates are one of those lit­tle details that most peo­ple don’t pay much atten­tion to when build­ing or ren­o­vat­ing a cot­tage. Util­i­tar­ian and inex­pen­sive tends to be the norm. And I never really gave them much thought until I saw these beauts from Iron Age Designs.

The grates are made from post-​​​​consumer recy­cled mate­r­ial and are 100 per […]

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DIY

Driftwood light fixture

At the mag­a­zine, we always talk about design and décor that brings the out­side in. Using ele­ments of nature in cot­tage design can be large-​​​​scale (a piece of bedrock exposed in the cot­tage floor, for exam­ple) or as sim­ple as plac­ing dec­o­ra­tive pinecones on the din­ner table.
One way we bring the out­side in at our cottage […]

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