design Archives - Cottage Life

front-facing shot of the bird hut in the trees with beautiful sunlight streaming in

This charming bunkie is actually a functioning bird house

Newly designed classic style living room with blue/gray walls, mix of rustic and modern decor

Moving to the cottage? Here’s how to merge your city and cottage decor

A long wooden dock at sunset

8 cool innovations in docks and dock accessories

A lattice fence with trees in the background

6 ways to enhance your property’s privacy

Several wall-mounted brass grab bars

These 8 upgrades will help you age in place at the cottage

A cracked foundation

6 signs of a failing foundation

the living room of Pauline and Robbie's cottage heavy with prints and colours

This couple brought the soul of a Roots-inspired log cabin to their East Coast cottage

a cottage living room with a window that frames a granite rockface

Why you need to upgrade to modern windows

the exterior of Carey Shaw's trailer with a deck attached

These two RV owners took their trailers from brown to beautiful

Rumspringa tiny cabin on scorched BC Okanagan property

These tiny cabins in the Okanagan Valley are inspired by the scorched landscape

exterior shot of Raina and Wilson's shared cottage

These two young families totally revamped their ‘mouse hotel’ shared cottage

silver-green paint in room, colour of the year

The 2022 colours of the year are here!

cheerful young man in wheelchair enjoying the spring on the lake

Ways to make the cottage more accessible

General

Paint cans and brushes on a old wooden background, painting

5 painting tips that our experts swear by

These newlyweds’ farmhouse-inspired DIY projects will blow you away

windows

How to cool your cottage in hot weather

General

A solar stake light in a spherical cement mould.

An ingenious DIY solution to lighting rocky pathways

Joanna Smeeth's cottage on Clear Lake

A lakeside cottage in the Kawarthas gets a design refresh

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