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Book review

Cottage Life Book Club

I don’t post twice in one day for just any reason, it has to be something special. So pay close attention!
Since I’m a magazine editor and writer, it probably doesn’t come as a huge surprise that I love to read. I especially love reading at the lake, in the hammock particularly. We figured that there [...]

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Easy DIY dock tray

Is there any better place to be than on the dock at 5pm on a sunny summer day, a beer and a bite before you? It’s hard to find a cottager who doesn’t love happy hour and any decor/food maven worth his or her own Kosher salt will have an always-growing collection of trays on [...]

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Book review: Simply Scandinavian

London-based journalist Sara Norrman grew up in Stockholm and spent her summers at a 19th-century summer house in the Swedish countryside. She has “cottaging” in her blood it seems, and the decor ethic presented in the recently released book she edited, Simply Scandinavian (Ryland Peters & Small, 2010, with additional text by Magnus Englund and [...]

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Upcycling ideas from Simple Home

A charming new book landed on my desk last week. Simple Home by Mark and Sally Bailey (Ryland Peters & Small, $39.95) packs a load of inspiration into its 160 pages. Although the British design duo has worked with such high-end fancy designers as Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan, their aesthetic isn’t overly polished at [...]

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