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DIY Wool Blanket">DIY Wool Blanket

I wanted to share with you my cur­rent DIY project: a wool blan­ket. I was vis­it­ing my favourite fab­ric store (Len’s Mill in Port Dover) and I came across a fab­u­lous black, red, and cream tar­tan. Right away I thought it would make a great blan­ket.
After squar­ing up the piece (easy to do because of the pat­tern), I began blan­ket stitch­ing around […]

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Green Cottage Living

Register Grates That Might Be Too Nice for the Floor

Reg­is­ter grates are one of those lit­tle details that most peo­ple don’t pay much atten­tion to when build­ing or ren­o­vat­ing a cot­tage. Util­i­tar­ian and inex­pen­sive tends to be the norm. And I never really gave them much thought until I saw these beauts from Iron Age Designs.

The grates are made from post-​​​​consumer recy­cled mate­r­ial and are 100 per […]

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Accessories

DIY Birchbark Votive Candles">DIY Birchbark Votive Candles

Here’s a DIY project to bring some rus­tic charm to your cot­tage din­ner table using found pieces of birch­bark.
You’ll need: Birch­bark, clear-​​​​glass votive or tea light holder (a glass jar can also work), double-​​​​sided tape, scis­sors or util­ity knife.
How-​​​​to
1. Start with a piece of birch­bark that is more than suf­fi­cient to wrap around the can­dle holder. Sep­a­rate the […]

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Coffee Rituals

Among the adults at the cot­tage my fam­ily rented as I was grow­ing up, morn­ing cof­fee was always a lit­tle more elab­o­rate than your stan­dard drip or instant vari­ety. It was a source of pride to mas­ter the tra­di­tional La Pavoni lever-​​​​style espresso machine—to per­fect the art of the crema, to make the foam beau­ti­fully frothy, and to […]

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Cooking & Eating

Going Old School in the Kitchen

Elmira Stove Works has intro­duced a high-​​​​efficiency, low-​​​​emission wood-​​​​burning cook­stove to its prod­uct lineup. The Fire­view fea­tures a view­ing win­dow so you can check how the fire is doing with­out open­ing the door, and there are optional gas side burn­ers. From $4,295 for the 36″ Model 1840 to $4,995 for the 48” Model 1842-​​​​G with gas side burners.

Cot­tage […]

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Accessories

Ikea Faves

It’s like Christ­mas when the new Ikea cat­a­logue arrives. I start imag­in­ing what I’m going to buy—how a cer­tain chair is exactly what I need for the cor­ner of one room, or how a new tray will help cor­ral the messy condi­ments in the kitchen. Easy-​​​​to-​​​​swallow price points have made Ikea the go-​​​​to source for cot­tage dec­o­rat­ing, sim­ply because […]

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Cleaning and Organizing

Catching Flies

Here’s a fly trap that won’t offend the visual senses. Mounted to the inside of a win­dow with suc­tion cups, the rec­tan­gu­lar frame holds a sticky-​​​​back card that cap­tures flies and keeps them out of view. No more star­ing at lit­tle black car­casses pil­ing up—ew. Win­dow fly trap, $6, refills, $5 per pack­age of two, Lee Valley Tools.

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