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Green Cottage Living

Illustrated shower curtain by Mike Perry

Part of what I love about working at a magazine is the exposure I get to up-and-coming artists. The art team here is always on the lookout for new contributors and have turned me on to some amazing talents. Illustrations seems to my uneducated mind like an outrageously competitive field, so when I start noticing [...]

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Hangeliers from Organelle Design

Thanks to Cottage Life magazine’s art director, Kim Zagar, for pointing me to Organelle Design. These Vancouver-based designers must have a touch of cottager in them: They specialize in reusing materials to make functional, and beautiful, new things. We see the same thing from our readers, who contribute their own ingenious ideas to the magazine [...]

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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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RC-1 Rain Collector by Hero Design Lab

At the cottage, where there seems to be more water than you could ever use in the lake out front, it’s often tempting to forget about conserving the wet stuff. But it’s no less important at the lake than it is in the city. There are many ways to reduce your water usage; here’s one [...]

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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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Solar-powered lamps from Ikea

So, did anyone make it out to Aberfoyle this weekend? If so, please send me a report!
Today I’ve got a decidedly different tip for you. There’s nothing old or antique about Ikea (not yet, at least). As much as some people like to dislike their cheap stuff, they do have some crack designers on their [...]

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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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