October 2007 Issue
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What's Inside October 2007
Features
Step Right Up
Cottage stairs combine form and function to get you to the next level in style.
The Cottage Within
A 1950s log cabin is the heart, literally, of this modern update.
Blissed Out On Bake Shops
Cottagers love their must-stop sweet spots. A collection of reader favourites.
BBQing Big Time
A barbecue-grilled roast serves up super flavour and feeds a crowd. It’s only your effort that’s tiny.
Jigsaw, Interrupted
The puzzle’s only half done but you’re ready to call it a night. With this ingenious holder, you can store everything until the next time.
Departments
On The Waterfront
A booming broom builder; tales of a fire and a flyby; a cottagey DVD; moth pics and owl places; Zimmer rants on hydro fees
Puttering
Making a stringer for outdoor stairs; Souped-up circular saws; Chimney draft blocker; Circular, eco-friendly cottage; What’s new in the Ontario Building Code; Combo shed light and vent; Solar boat bailer; car jack support
Cottage Q&A
Shoreline allowance taxes; your dogs vs. the mink; insurance for cottage renting; outhouse rules; by hand or the dishwasher?
Cottage Watch
Why are people still dying at cottage-country dams?
Cottage Coup
Confessions of a junk junkie.
Nature Scrapbook
Nothing to sneeze at: Goldenrod isn’t the weed you think it is.
Cottage Classic
I’ll take my beat-up metal chair over the Muskoka any day.
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