Spring 2016 Issue

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What's Inside Spring 2016

Features

The Dream, Realized
By Philip Preville
You want a cottage, but how will you ever afford it? Here’s what’s happening in real estate now.
Meet Dyan
By Ann Vanderhoof
Loves bright colours, bold displays, and collecting—especially collecting. Come with us as we peek inside her cottage.
Upgrades for Opening Up
By Jackie Davis, Blair Eveleigh, Roxy Kirshenbaum & Bob Sexton
29½ tips, projects, ideas, and products to make your cottage better this spring.
Treasured Chest
By Wayne Lennox
A blanket box with French-Canadian heritage is a DIY project that you build for generations to come.

Departments

Waterfront
Cool gadgets; Reporter; my first lake association meeting; lichens love a picnic table; researchers love pancakes; eating invasives; a fun enviro book for kids; new laws that affect you; caption contest winner
Workshop
All about load-bearing walls; a log-bench invention; how to fell a lodged tree; water sensor device; repair your vinyl flooring; in-line waterline-heating cable; a simple way to inflate a tubeless tire
Cottage Feast
Easy make-ahead breakfast recipes: delicious muffins and stratas; advice we regret giving: what not to do while grilling; Mexican bean tortilla soup; chorizo-feta stuffed peppers; cutting-board care
Cottage Q&A
Septic systems, swans, barkless trees, sky lanterns, and green roofs.

In Like Zim
By David Zimmer
Zim gives advice on giving and receiving advice, but are you sure you really want it?
Cottage Watch
By John Lorinc
Useful tools or spying menaces? Drones are here—and flying around your cottage.
Style Ideas
By Braden Alexander
Carve out a cozy nook or an extra bed, and make your space really work.
Nature Scrapbook
By Tim Tiner
These tiny voles spend their brief but action-packed lives in meadows all over Canada.