energy efficient Archives - Cottage Life

a quonset home in the winter

Quonsets are the new mighty-strong, energy-efficient, last-you-a-lifetime rural residences

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A Sustainable Cottage

Ontario cottagers can take advantage of the province’s new sustainable renovation rebate

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An old TV and VCR

How to stop ‘energy vampire’ appliances from draining your bank account

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A wood-walled room with windows

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

Close-up of someone applying caulk around a door frame

8 tips to save energy (and money!) in the winter

A highway stretching out through the photo, with 2021-2025 written on it

Are these the cottage building materials of the future?

Sponsored by Schneider Electric

These common habits waste more energy than you realize

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Tiny off-the-grid home with solar panels in a thick forest.

4 new technologies that make going off grid easier than ever

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Exterior view of the cabin

This beautiful little cabin also happens to be Colorado’s most energy efficient house

Real Estate

The Escape Traveler

This luxurious tiny house is reinventing the rules of small living

Real Estate

Close-up of an axe chopping wood.

Find out if you could hack it as a lumberjack at Cedar Coast Homes’ Logs Up! event

Large, modern log cabin.

Timber Block brings its eco-friendly homes to Ontario

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