Cottage Life

Some of the most frequent requests I get for the Cottage Life Blog relate to cottage style decorating. It seems that city-dwellers and others love to design their homes around the same warm, inviting, and personal decor that they find in the cottage. So to that end, I am posting another short cottage decor article [...]

Willow Beach Resort is proud to announce “carefree cottaging,” another option to cottage ownership.
Haliburton, Ontario - Over the last several years, the price of waterfront property in the traditional Ontario cottage resort areas has risen dramatically. While skyrocketing cottage prices may be well received by cottage owners who are happy to watch their equity increase, [...]

When I was a small child and was coming down with a cold or the flu, my mother would serve me warm milk with saffron. The saffron made the milk a bright yellow/orange color, which I thought was neat as a child. Saffron is thought to have medicinal properties and is often given to children [...]

A group of residents in my home town of Toronto are fighting to save a century-old home in the Beaches Neighbourhood from demolition.
While they argue it’s a “quintessential” part of the area’s character, not all residents are convinced.
The owners of Cowling House on Wheeler Avenue want to tear down the large 103-year-old white cottage and [...]

By JACOB LAMMERS of the Sandusky Register
Home sweet home does not do justice to the 1936 cottage-style house on the Chaussee.
Joe and Mary Lou Viviano purchased the house off Cedar Point Road from Helen Bremmer in April 2003. Bremmer had lived in the house for nearly 35 years before selling it.
Mary Lou knew it was [...]

Better than a story about a vanishing gnome is the sequel when the roaming gnome comes home.
And both tales are Michael Heskanen’s to tell, because someone returned his four-foot, 100-pound wooden gnome that was stolen from his mother’s cottage porch at 701 Gurnet Road on Jan. 7.
Heskanen reclaimed his roving gnome Thursday via a parent [...]