Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Cottage Life

    From cottage fixer-upper to flip: this couple loves a challenge

    Mar 31, 2022 2 minutes

    The search: In 1985, Chatham, Ont., couple Don and Yvonne Dreise started buying fixer-uppers to renovate and live in. “We enjoyed doing a project from start to finish,” says Don. “Every couple of years, we’d sell and move to a home that needed more ambitious renovations.”

    During summers, Don, a project manager

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Cottage Life

    Cottage Life3 min read
    Editor’s Note: Here’s To The Little Things
    ON SUMMER EVENINGS at the cottage, we eat dinner early. We wash and put away the dishes by 6:30 p.m., at the latest. This cuts into our cheese-eating and wine-sipping time at happy hour, but that’s a small price to pay for what comes later. Once the
    Cottage Life14 min read
    There Are A Million Reasons To Love The Lake. Here, Five Of Our Writers Tell Us Theirs
    FORTY-TWO YEARS ago, I landed on the island as a visitor and passed the pre-spousal cottage test. That meant simply to survive a weekend off-grid and show boundless enthusiasm. Mary and Jack, matriarch and patriarch, did their own thing. And, over th
    Cottage Life5 min read
    Your Letters: What’s The Story, Morning Glory?
    I’m responding to “The $12,000 Hole to Nowhere” (May ’24), which seems to dismiss divining or witching as a means of locating a water well. My neighbour, an older man, insisted he knew how to find groundwater by divining. Using a forked stick, he pin

    Related Books & Audiobooks