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Boating
  • 9 boat tool box essentials
  • How to get rowing
  • Easy kayak entry
  • Boat roller
  • Our marina crisis
Building & Renovating
  • Building stair stringers
  • Go Green: Fireplace inserts
  • Building a custom door frame
  • Emergency storm safety kit
  • DIY: How to change a floorboard
Checklists
  • 9 ways to be a good cottage guest
  • Opening-up checklist download
  • 10 tips for winterizing your plumbing system
  • 25 ultimate upgrades
  • Part 2: Closing up at the cottage
Cottage Real Estate
  • How to get your dream cottage for less
  • 26 Ontario cottage regions
  • 7 markets to watch in 2010
  • Fighting your cottage property assessment
  • Cottage property values, assessments, and property taxes
Cottage Style
  • Keep it light
  • The history of the Jubilee chair
  • How to make a hockey-stick coat rack
  • Moose decor photo gallery
  • moose photo gallery header
Food & Entertainment
  • iPads at the cottage: yay or nay?
  • Bread Pudding with Wild Blueberry Sauce
  • Tandoori Chicken Skewers with Wild Blueberry Fig Sauce
  • Wild Blueberry Baselito
  • Wild Blueberry Chi Chi
Great Inventions
  • A bicycle-lawnmower
  • Hidden path lights
  • The lip saver
  • Windmill water pump
  • Easy kayak entry
Green Cottaging
  • Go Green: Fireplace inserts
  • Eco-friendly cottage commuting
  • Go Green: Better waste removal
  • 2010 recipients
  • The Cottage Life Environment Grant
Maintenance & Repair
  • How to choose a pressure washer
  • Natural bug solutions
  • Building stair stringers
  • Go Green: Fireplace inserts
  • A bicycle-lawnmower
Nature & Environment
  • How to avoid cottage-country bugs
  • Natural bug solutions
  • Elk sounds
  • The firewood quiz
  • Video: Woodpile basics
Q & A
  • Mouse damage to boat in storage
  • Cottage Q&A
The Workshop
  • A bicycle-lawnmower
  • Hidden path lights
  • How to work from the cottage
  • Curtain-rod tool holder
  • How to make a hockey-stick coat rack
Tools & products
  • Video: Soldering copper pipe
  • Building a custom door frame
  • Products and services directory
  • Tips for buying a used snowmobile
  • How a propane fridge works
Video
  • Building stair stringers
  • Video: Soldering copper pipe
  • Building a custom door frame
  • Build our outdoor shower
  • Part 2: Maul shopping
Winter Cottaging
  • Keep it light
  • Cold-water shock survival
  • Part 2: Cold-water shock survival
  • Part 3: Cold-water shock survival
  • Part 4: Cold-water shock survival