Design & DIY Archives - Page 6 of 68 - Cottage Life

Someone fixing a gap in flooring with a foam strip

Cottage Q&A: 4 fixes for a gappy floor

3 tiny cabins that offer design inspiration and small-space solutions

Photo of a bedroom with a skylight above the bed

Want more natural light? Modern skylights are more efficient and less leak-prone than ever

Check out this cottager’s ‘beaver deceiver’

An illustration of a car falling into a huge pothole

How to fill a pothole

a sauna

This Quebec cottager built her very own Finnish-style sauna—from scratch

A person in a grey sweater smiles while standing beside a dark brown screen door with a moose painted on the bottom

This hobby artist found an unexpected niche—carving personalized screen doors

A gloved hand pruning branches from a tree

7 yardwork mistakes that you don’t know you’re making

Lauren, Cam, and their kids stand around a fire in front of their treehouse cabin

This tucked-away treehouse is a modern take on a childhood dream

A wet window in the rain

3 essential spring window tune-ups

A boot pushing down on a garden shovel in soil

The easiest way to sharpen your garden tools

Inspector writting on a clipboard. Man in the background with arms crossed. Heat pump installation gone wrong

Muskoka Lakes resident forced to install baseboard heaters after township rejects heat pumps

A wood board with a knot in it

Cottage Q&A: Bleeding deck knots

A wood-walled room with windows

What is mass timber (and should you use it at the cottage)?

A room tiled with wood wall tiles

Stuff we like: Wood wall tiles

An up-close shot of the inside of an oven

How to recalibrate your oven’s temperature

Solar panel technician with drill installing solar panels on roof

New changes to the 2024 Canadian Electrical Code will make it easier for cottagers to adopt green... energy solutions

A person cutting PVC pipe with a string.

Steal these 7 CL-approved DIY tricks

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