From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Rugs and Flooring

Flip flop doormat

Yes­ter­day I let you in on the fact that I’m a big fan of flip flops for the cot­tage (or for any­where else, for that mat­ter). Here’s a new prod­uct that doesn’t put them on your feet, but beneath them:

These hand­made door­mats are made of the scraps from a flip-​​​​flop fac­tory in the Phillip­pines.  I love how colour­ful they are; […]

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Cottage Tours

Charles Pachter’s Lake Simcoe Ice House

Our very first issue of 2010 just landed on my desk, hot off the press. You know what this means? Sum­mer is com­ing! Every year at about this time we get a few let­ters from delight­ful read­ers who tell us that a new issue of Cot­tage Life in the mail is their first sig­nal that it’s safe […]

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Building and Architecture

Catching the Wood Wave

It’s Olympic time, and I’m a sports fanatic. I’ve been blown away by some of the coura­geous per­for­mances we’ve seen so far (Alexan­dre Bilodeau!), and am look­ing for­ward to more (obvi­ously I’ll be cheer­ing for skele­ton ath­lete Michelle Kelly). But I’m equally as impressed by some of the Olympic venues. In par­tic­u­lar, the Rich­mond Olympic Oval, […]

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News

Season 3 of Sarah’s House

I took a few weeks off over last Christ­mas, and I admit that I spent one full day of couch-​​​​surfing bliss tak­ing in a marathon of Sarah’s House, the pop­u­lar HGTV design/​​renovation show. The premise: Well-​​​​known Cana­dian designer/​​decor guru Sarah Richard­son buys a house and then spends a bun­dle of time, money, and effort ren­o­vat­ing it top to bot­tom. Although Sarah’s […]

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Accessories

Rah rah for pennants!

Thanks for your sug­ges­tions on what to do with my col­lec­tion of pen­nants after I posted about it a few days ago. And spe­cial thanks to loyal reader Debb, who sent me a lovely photo of her own pretty cot­tage pennants:

These flags came from Hol­land, where Debb’s mother was born and raised, and likely have great sen­ti­men­tal value […]

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Accessories

An alarm clock to chirp about

I often look at design*sponge for inspi­ra­tion (it’s on my blog roll, just a wee bit down this page on the right, FYI). Yes­ter­day I saw the cutest thing there, and it’s right up our cot­tage ally. UK com­pany Lucky Bite has designed an alarm clock that will have you think­ing spring even on winter’s darkest […]

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Accessories

Gifts for your cottage valentine from Anneke van Bommel

Touch the Dutch is the Toronto-​​​​based design stu­dio of Cana­dian Artist Anneke van Bom­mel. You may recall her work from our June 2009 issue, where we fea­tured her moose antler rings. Her inspi­ra­tion includes more than just moose, how­ever. As she puts it, she is explor­ing “the themes of value, irony, mem­ory, home, Cana­di­ana, and […]

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