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The end cut of a piece of lumber being milled

Lumber is still expensive—can you mill your own trees?

a dremel rotary tool on a yellow background

Dremel rotary tool review: add this to your cottage arsenal

illustration of a hand poking a wood board with a screwdriver

Sick of paying high lumber prices? Here’s how to salvage wood you have

a muskoka chair modified to add lumbar support

A simple modification guaranteed to make your Muskoka chair more comfortable

Create a winter bird feeder tree

Outdoors

Muskoka chair turned into a table in a cottage sunroom

This broken Muskoka chair turned coffee table is the perfect sunroom addition

A small bunkie with the lake as the backdrop

7 tips for planning to build a bunkie

gas-can-diy-jack-o-lantern-halloween-Recreated-Designs

DIY Halloween decor for your cottage

Paint cans and brushes on a old wooden background, painting

5 painting tips that our experts swear by

Self-drilling screws piled on a wooden deck, fastener

Are you using the right fastener for the job?

red hammock on a diy hammock stand made out of a single sheet of plywood

This genius hammock stand is made from a single sheet of plywood

An illustration of four pieces of lumber, each curved differently.

Our expert guide to buying the best lumber

Deforestation concept. Stump of tree after cutting forest. Stump from fresh cut coniferous tree in forest. stump in the coniferous forest from freshly chopped spruce. Banner format. lumber

Theft and tree poaching on the rise thanks to soaring lumber prices

General

Man standing with DIY boat

This cottager built his own boat during COVID-19

blue coloured sand imprinted with handprints and seashells

5 simple sand crafts that kids will love

General

photo of Brian and Wayne in the Cottage Workshop at the Cottage Life show, DIY

A DIY expert’s secrets to mastering an outhouse build

doggy flap invention screen door

Screen door with a DIY doggy flap

General

A vent in the shape of a half moon on an old distressed wooden outhouse door. There's knots and spaces in the wooden door. There's shadows on the wood.

Have an outhouse? You need to add one of these

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