magazine Archives - Cottage Life

Group of retro home wooden furniture on Tel Aviv flea market street . Finishing: staining and varnishing. Useful for background.

Cash or trash: What to do with these items

General

illustraton for snake in the grass

Understanding the psychology behind our fear of snakes and loss

General

Man at a barbecue grill with smoke.Grilling sausages on barbecue grill. BBQ party.Delicious german sausages or bratwurst

Grilling tips with Roger Mooking

This determined cottager built his dream log cabin

a sausage coil on a grill

Grill this: Larger-than-life market sausage coil

General

A Panache lake cabin

A humble cabin in the bush that casts a spell

Real Estate

doggy flap invention screen door

Screen door with a DIY doggy flap

General

fishing chair

Big sister makes chair for fishing-obsessed brother

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Jim Curtis laying on a bed and reading a Cottage Life magazine in front of his mushroom and birch headboard project

This cottager builds magical mushroom headboards out of salvaged wood

brownies in skillet

Campfire Pecan Skillet Brownies

General

hot dog

Enter our “Lookout!” for hot dogs contest for your chance to win

General

magnifying glass

Enter our “Lookout!” for hearts contest for your chance to win

General

binoculars-hung-up-on-a-hook-on-wooden-wall

Enter our “Lookout!” for boats contest for your chance to win

General

Maple

Love letters to the cottage: Making maple syrup at Romany Wood

Outdoors

young tree

Planting a tree this summer? Here’s how to care for it long term

Outdoors

DIY hoverboard

The Brojects brothers build a DIY hoverboard using leaf blowers and plywood