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Features

Grand Dame
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This 120-year-old Lake Rosseau beauty tells the tale of Victorian life by the lake—curlicues and all.

Project Privacy
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Celebrated historian and writer Charlotte Gray and her husband add a new twist to an empty nest.

Light Classics
By Jane Rodmell

Fresh, bright, flavour-packed soups that bring the promise of spring to the cottage table.

Hide and Sleep
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The bottom bunk folds up to give a crowded bedroom more usable space. The best bunk bed project ever, with full plans.

Cottage Real Estate 2011

Good Cottage Hunting
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Will we ever find a place the whole family likes?

Risk Is Not a Game
By Philip Preville

What you don't know about cottage insurance.

The Walkabout
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A day of trespassing on my neighbours' shorelines.

Find a Cottage
By Jay Teitel

6 real estate trends that are shaping the market

Waterfront

Pike shore lunch; White-nose syndrome update; Dock spider appreciation; What the cat said; Multiple-personality cottage; The lake as remedy; Super, natural books; Environment grant recipients; Reporter; All in a (sweltering) day's work

Puttering

Job Jar
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Refinishing tips

Go Green
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Wood treatments

Solutions
By David Zimmer

How to avoid painting hell

Stuff We Like
By Martin Zibauer

FrogTape

Trade Secrets
By Susan Peters

Painting pros spill

Real Tools
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5-in-1 painter's tool

Great Inventions
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Trash into treasure

Cottage Q&A

By Jackie Davis

Trapping beaver on public land; red-sky weather prediction; oak branch bumps; jumpy jet pump; camping on an empty lot

Nature Scrapbook

Plucky provider
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In early spring, hairy woodpeckers hush up and settle down.

Weekender

Red sky at night

A spectacular sunset after a stormy day at the lake