reader project Archives - Cottage Life

This cottager on Opinicon Lake made a roadside lending library from recycled materials

Blue and yellow cottage shed.

This bold blue shed has hockey-stick style

Check out this cottager’s ‘beaver deceiver’

a sauna

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

photo of an ATV shed with a deer carved onto the doors

This cottager carved a wildlife tribute on his ATV shed

photo of Mark's bear-proof bird feeder on a post dangling

A bear-proof bird feeder, can it be done?

Muskoka chair turned into a table in a cottage sunroom

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

A pontoon with solar panels.

You’ll swoon over this solar pontoon reader project

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

diy project sitting on rocky lake shore, canoe and kayak launch pad

This kayak and canoe launch pad is a game changer for paddlers

shot of diy alberta tiki shack project

This DIY tiki bar is made from almost entirely repurposed materials

floating sauna raft

This awesome DIY floating sauna is something you would only see at the cottage