Category: Summer


Watch: Installing Balcony Floor Tiles -- There's Still Time How to Garden Wrap-Up and Gallery: England's Beautiful Gardens Scandi-Style Cottage: Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing? Question of the Week: Is It Really Camping If You Stay in an RV?  From Twitter and Facebook: Thoughts on Camping, Glamping & Cottaging Top 5: Ultimate Glamping Accessories How To Garden: Inspiration from The Beth Chatto Garden, Essex, England Kim Vallee: Modern Style at the Cottage Question of the Week: Would You Go Glamping? How to Garden: Saving Cuttings for Next Year Modern Country: Loving Lavender Question of the Week: What's Your Cottage/Camping/Cabin Must-Have? How to Garden: It's Hot Now, But Can Tropical Plants Endure the Rest of Our Climate?  Top 5 Friday: Cottage Envy An Architect's Secret Garden: Shobac Cottages, Lunenburg, NS 
 
Sep
02

Watch: Installing Balcony Floor Tiles -- There's Still Time

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 9/2/2010 5:40:00 PM
Dave Spiers, our installer, of Designer Deck Inc. Earlier this summer I did a post on outdoor flooring . In it, I derided a colleague for having a most repelling AstroTurf disaster cladding her ample condo balcony , which essentially precluded her from
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Aug
29

How to Garden Wrap-Up and Gallery: England's Beautiful Gardens

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 8/29/2010 9:20:00 AM
Why is summer like chocolate? So lovely and indulgent while it lasts, but always seems to melt away too soon? (I shouldn't get started on chocolate actually...) I'm going on like this because whether I like it on, the calendar says summer is packing its
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Aug
24

Scandi-Style Cottage: Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing?

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Posted by Mia Rodak 8/24/2010 11:24:00 AM
I'm a big proponant of mixing and matching different design styles in my home in order to achieve a balance that feels comfortable and original, rather than overdone and forced. My personal tastes run towards a modern look, but I like to include some
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Aug
23

Question of the Week: Is It Really Camping If You Stay in an RV?

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Posted by Mia Rodak 8/23/2010 4:45:00 PM
Photo courtesy of Airsteam.com Thanks in no small part to the hit Canadian cult show The Trailer Park Boys , RVs and trailers certainly have a developed a reputation as being not-so-classy, but the truth is when camping , what could be classier than not
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Aug
21

From Twitter and Facebook: Thoughts on Camping, Glamping & Cottaging

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Posted by Alicia Cox 8/21/2010 9:13:00 AM
Sarah's Cottage , such a beauty This month's theme had us asking you a few questions, which or course we love to do: Lakefront cottage or farmhouse? What's your must-have? Would you go glamping? And our fans and followers on Facebook and Twitter did not
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Aug
20

Top 5: Ultimate Glamping Accessories

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Posted by Vanessa 8/20/2010 12:27:00 PM
Earlier this week, I asked if y ou would ever go glamping and 79 per cent of you said you would, so whether you're actually planning your next trip or just dreaming about it, I thought I'd indulge you with a little what you might call " rustic luxury
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Aug
20

How To Garden: Inspiration from The Beth Chatto Garden, Essex, England

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/20/2010 10:50:00 AM
By Veronica Sliva For me, my garden is one of my greatest pleasures. And though I love tending it, I love visiting the gardens of others even more. I am always inspired and take away tidbits and images worth remembering. I am very lucky to be able to
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Aug
19

Kim Vallee: Modern Style at the Cottage

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/19/2010 2:21:00 PM
Designers and retailers have responded to people who dream of a modern summer house. Whether you are edgy or simply want an updated look on the classics, you can find something that will suit your taste. From left: DWR Teepee and a grown-up version from
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Aug
16

Question of the Week: Would You Go Glamping?

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Posted by Vanessa 8/16/2010 12:43:00 PM
Glamping in Ontario's Boreal Forest with Wild Exodus If you haven't heard of glamping , it's basically glamorous camping , combining the great outdoors with all the luxuries of home — and more. Think tents, yurts and caravans outfitted with actual beds,
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Aug
13

How to Garden: Saving Cuttings for Next Year

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/13/2010 2:11:00 PM
By Veronica Sliva From now until frost I take cuttings of plants that I want to “keep over” for next year. There are a few of reasons I like to do this. One is that I love the plant (or the person who gave it to me) so much that I can’t imagine not having
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Aug
12

Modern Country: Loving Lavender

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/12/2010 9:31:00 AM
In the early summer, we harvest a lot of lavender here at Missing Goat Farm . We use it in our blueberry lavender jam, but we also save some for sachets. Seems my girl is hooked on it too. I'll be slipping a sachet in her pillow case tonight! I made a
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Aug
09

Question of the Week: What's Your Cottage/Camping/Cabin Must-Have?

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Posted by Alicia Cox 8/9/2010 1:40:00 PM
Everyone has their own idea of outdoor vacationing (which is the blanket term I'm going to use for going to the cottage, lake , camp, cabin, etc. -- I do love how regional the term is!). Whether you're sleeping in a tent or a bunkie , eating under the
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Aug
07

How to Garden: It's Hot Now, But Can Tropical Plants Endure the Rest of Our Climate?

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/7/2010 12:10:00 AM
By: Veronica Sliva It’s Hot, Hot, Hot. Yes indeed. Positively tropical. Which reminds of my recent trip to England this past June. While there I visited Will Giles’s Exotic Garden in Norwich . As soon as I stepped into the garden I was transported to
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Aug
06

Top 5 Friday: Cottage Envy

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/6/2010 3:05:00 PM
By: Michelle Carangi of Montreal-based design office and blog, Holley&Gill August is here and we thankfully still have a few weeks left to unwind. Most of us, it not all of us, have or will find some way to get away from it all. Either spending the
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Aug
05

An Architect's Secret Garden: Shobac Cottages, Lunenburg, NS

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 8/5/2010 11:27:00 PM
This is Part I of my tour of architect/professor Brian MacKay-Lyons' ocean-side properties on the South Shore near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Shobac Cottages, Lunenburg, NS. Photo via shobac.mlsarchitects.ca First, a shameful admission: before CJ of foodnetwork.ca
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