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Rugs and Flooring

Antique Trends from Design*Sponge

The first long-weekend, and for many the first cottage weekend, of unofficial summer is just hours away and with that comes the opportunity to hit up some flea markets and antique stores.
The Design*Sponge has compiled a list of the prominent trends at the Brimfield Outdoor Antique Shows, a mile-long series of antique and flea markets [...]

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Martha Stewart for Home Depot

I have a real thing for Martha Stewart. Not necessarily her designs—which are nice, but not exactly my style—but just her. She is so committed to making things  “just so” and is wicked smart in my books for creating such a name for herself. Love her or hate her, you can’t deny that the woman [...]

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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 [...]

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Hooked Rugs by Micheline Mann

Had a lovely chat recently with Micheline Mann, a rug hooker up near Port Elgin. For the past four years she’s been creating what she calls “modern day heirlooms” using the traditional crafting method. Her cottage series of hooked rugs are inspired by the landscape paintings of the Group of Seven, and are quite fresh [...]

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