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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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White at the cottage

Fresh, breezy, crisp, romantic—however you want to describe it, there is something undeniably alluring about the look of all white. It’s not a style that you think of as being terribly practical for the cottage, though. Ice cream cones, muddy paws, sandy feet, wet bathing suits—who wants to spend time working extra hard to clean [...]

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