Design & DIY Archives - Cottage Life

The exterior of the Lake Muskoka cottage from Heated Rivalry

Inside the iconic Heated Rivalry cottage on Lake Muskoka designed by a former OHL player

A truck with a straight blade plow attachment

Sick of shovelling? Here’s how to turn your vehicle into a snowplow

AFCI breakers on an orange background

AFCI breakers can help prevent electrical fires. Here’s what you need to know

A Tushy bidet on a red background

Stuff We Like: A device that will reduce your toilet paper usage (and save your septic!)

Close-up of a hand holding a cordless drill

How to keep power tools from overheating

This is the proper way to unclog your toilet

A long set of stairs going down to the lake

5 pro tips for building stairs down to the lake

This is how you can use an axe or an adze to expertly craft a hand-hewn wooden beam

The McDonald family in their shed kitchen

How a young family in Alberta turned a shed into an off-grid cabin for less than $30,000

A multimeter producing a spark

Faulty on-off switch? Here’s how to troubleshoot the problem

Closeup of hands using steel wool to scrub at a tool

Surprising uses for steel wool

Cottage Q&A: Should I put copper sulphate in my septic tank?

Appliance pilot light won’t stay lit? Blame the thermocouple

Introducing the Geezer Pole, one cottager’s clever invention that is an accessibility upgrade... for the dock

You need this cleat wall storage system in your cottage workshop

Here’s how to tackle DIY jobs that require tiny screws

Septic blanket laying on the ground

This clever product is an easy way to protect your septic from frost

The exterior of a renovated cabin

This Christie Lake reno peeled back the layers of history

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