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Contents

Featured

A Grand Design
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Down to the stud walls and back up again, this turn-of-the-century cottage gets a heritage makeover.

The Natural Garden: Part 2
By Lorraine Johnson

Ground Rules – The dirt on planting a beautiful cottage garden.

All Creatures Great and Small
By Bonnie Schiedel

A cottage-country wildlife rehabilitator helps needy animals get back on their feet again.

Picking Up Steam
By Sydney Loney

A family’s passion for fire-powered steamboats spans three generations.

The Back 31
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We believed the swamp existed for the animals, and birds, and us – and we wanted to keep it that way. An investment in uselessness.

Hanging Out
By

Suspended from porch rafters or a free-standing frame, our cottage swing really rocks.

Grilling Gourmet
By Jane Rodmell

Six BBQ masters share favourite recipes guaranteed to make you flip.

Puttering

Task Master

Silencing squeaky floors

Real Tools

The all-seeing stud finder

Materials

Ladders that’ll take you to the top

In the Works

The fire extinguisher dissected

Job Jar

Evicting eave-dwelling bees Great Inventions: Soggy-doggy ramp; dock jack

Also in this issue

On the Waterfront
Cottage Watch
Cottage Q&A
Cottage Coup
Cottage Finds
Cottage Design
Nature Scrapbook
Weekender