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Building and Architecture

Words of wisdom from Bruce Corley

I had a long chat with architectural historian and cottage designer Bruce Corley a few weeks ago. Bruce has worked on several top-to-bottom cottage restorations and new builds, mostly in the Pointe au Baril area. He has really interesting ideas about what makes a cottage truly cottage-like, and offered this interesting analogy:
“A cottage structure shouldn’t [...]

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My tale of Turkish delight

Many thanks to our new editorial intern, Emma Tarswell, for blogging over the last few weeks. I’m hoping that she’ll continue to contribute to the blog over the summer (pretty please Emma?). I’m sorry for abandoning you all just as the cottage season opens, but I had a great excuse: Rich and I took a [...]

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Cottage Life Show roundup: Country Classics Cupolas

Considering that the Spring Cottage Life Show was more than a month ago, it’s getting a bit silly that I’m continuing to harp on it with these roundup posts. But you guys! There was some great stuff there! I’m not just saying that, honest.
Today, I thought I’d move to something to accessorize a part of [...]

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Plans for an outdoor shower

I was cruising around on Remodelista last week and came across this wonderful roundup of outdoor shower designs. If you don’t have an outdoor shower at your cottage, think about building one as your spring project. They are not only handy when you’ve got a lot of people who share one indoor bathroom (ahem, like [...]

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Award-winning cottage designs

Yesterday in Ottawa, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts announced the recipients of the Governor General’s Medals in Architecture for 2010. Wouldn’t you know it, among the winning designs were two cottages.
The first is a photographer’s studio over a Stoney Lake boathouse, by the Toronto [...]

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Cottage Life Show roundup: Euroshield roofing

I know I haven’t talked much about building materials on this blog, and that’s mostly because it’s simply not my area of expertise. It’s also because I’ve never really been part of the building decisions that have gone on at my family cottage; that’s more my mother’s and brother’s domain. But in this age of [...]

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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 [...]

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Tricked-out treehouses

When I left the house this morning, I heard birds chirping. Not a common sound to hear in Toronto in January, especially this year when it seems as thought the temperature has only rarely risen above –10 degrees. Was it ever soul polishing to hear that squeaky reminder of spring.
Ah, yes, spring.
It also reminded me [...]

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