workshop Archives - Cottage Life

This cottager created an awesome hang out for his kids and more storage space with a treehouse... bunkie

Real Tool: These pipe cutters are fast and precise

Real Tool: It’s both a screwdriver and a wrench—meet the scrench

How to choose a mask or respirator for cottage jobs

A black vise on a worktable

Why you need a vise in your cottage workshop

Someone playing the tabletop crockey rink game

Tabletop ‘crockey’ is an easy-to-build project that’s fun for all ages

Sponsored by Bryan Coxworth, Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, Brokerage

Aerial view of the main lodge and lawn at 221 Pennie Avenue, with outdoor seating and forest surrounding the property.

Listing of the Week: This $3.9M gated Lake Huron estate offers 928 feet of shoreline, a private... airstrip, and a luxury family compound on Manitoulin Island

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5 genius magnifying tools that will help you fix what you can’t see

How to prevent finishing problems with glue squeeze-out

A compound mitre saw sitting on a table

How to tune up a compound mitre saw

Illustration showing the shooting board and its parts

How to build a shooting board for perfectly square cut ends

One of the horse trailer saunas on the beach at sunset

This Perth, Ont., carpenter is turning horse trailers into portable saunas

Try this workshop hack to rip a bevel on a table saw

Close-up of a hand holding a cordless drill

How to keep power tools from overheating

This is the proper way to unclog your toilet

This is how you can use an axe or an adze to expertly craft a hand-hewn wooden beam

Closeup of hands using steel wool to scrub at a tool

Surprising uses for steel wool

You need this cleat wall storage system in your cottage workshop

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