Cottage Life Store

Contents

Features

Step Right Up
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Cottage stairs combine form and function to get you to the next level in style.

The Cottage Within
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A 1950s log cabin is the heart, literally, of this modern update.

Blissed Out On Bake Shops
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Cottagers love their must-stop sweet spots. A collection of reader favourites.

BBQing Big Time
By Jane Rodmell

A barbecue-grilled roast serves up super flavour and feeds a crowd. It’s only your effort that’s tiny.

Jigsaw, Interrupted
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The puzzle’s only half done but you’re ready to call it a night. With this ingenious holder, you can store everything until the next time.

Puttering

Task Master
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Making a stringer for outdoor stairs

Real Tools
By Paul Lewis

Souped-up circular saws

Job Jar
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Chimney draft blocker

Cottage Plans
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Circular, eco-friendly cottage

Solutions
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What’s new in the Ontario Building Code

Bright Idea
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Combo shed light and vent

Great Inventions
By Pat Lynch

Solar boat bailer; car jack support

On The Waterfront

A booming broom builder; tales of a fire and a flyby; a cottagey DVD; moth pics and owl places; Zimmer rants on hydro fees

Cottage Q&A

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Shoreline allowance taxes; your dogs vs. the mink; insurance for cottage renting; outhouse rules; by hand or the dishwasher?

Cottage Watch

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Why are people still dying at cottage-country dams?

Cottage Coup

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Confessions of a junk junkie.

Nature Scrapbook

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Nothing to sneeze at: Goldenrod isn’t the weed you think it is.

Cottage Classic

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I’ll take my beat-up metal chair over the Muskoka any day.