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Furniture

Fantastic furniture by Patricia Urquiola

Thanks once more to Cottage Life’s art director, Kim Zagar, for pointing me in the direction of another amazingly creative talent, furniture designer Patricia Urquiola. Spanish-born designer Urquiola is now based in Milan, Italy, and has a wide line of indoor and outdoor furnishings. Her stuff is very expensive, likely far out reach for most [...]

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Murphy bunks

Murphy beds really do prove that you can do a lot with a small space with just a little bit of ingenuity. At a seasonal cottage, where indoor space needn’t be huge to accommodate a big crowd in fine weather, these fold-down beds seem like the perfect alternative to making up the old couch for [...]

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Whitewashing wood

You must have thought that I’d jumped ship! Not at all, it’s simply that things are busy busy at the office right now as we prepare to send our October issue to press. Well, not entirely true: I did squeeze in a few days off over the weekend for a short summer trip across the [...]

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New life for old sofas

Today I’ll be putting the finishing touches on a fantastic story for our upcoming October issue, about a century-old farmhouse turned cottage. The owner, Viki Mansell, owns two antique shops in Toronto (Absolutely and Absolutely North), so you can imagine that the place is filled with some pretty incredible stuff. She has an amazing eye; [...]

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Best bookshelves

Rich and I are in an ongoing “discussion” about how to organize our book collection in our new house, and have been looking at modular wall-mounted systems. We like them because built-ins have to be left behind when you move and are a touch pricey to boot. Plus, we want to somehow incorporate our flat-screen [...]

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How to make a pallet bed

There’s a little daybed in the screened porch at our cottage that is my favourite place for a mid-afternoon nap in the summertime. (Mid-afternoon nap in the summertime. I think that’s my favourite sentence.) The porch is built right next to the water so you can hear the water lapping up the shore as you [...]

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Modern deck chairs from Canadian Home Workshop

Next to the loon, I can’t think of a more iconic cottage symbol than the Muskoka chair. I guess with all that sitting around and relaxing at the cottage (yah, right) it’s only natural that we’re obsessed with finding a comfy place to perch.
We have five wooden chairs at our cottage that you might call [...]

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Crate and Barrel delivery to cottage country

I just learned today that Crate and Barrel, the popular American home furnishings and accessories store that recently expanded into Canada, is offering Saturday delivery to Muskoka and the Kawarthas starting this summer. They have some beautiful investment pieces (aka, a touch pricer) and are worth checking out if you’re going that route with your [...]

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