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link to Garden Planning for Our New Home

Garden Planning for Our New Home

Our Quality Home is in the finishing stages on site (less than 1 week to go!) and we’ve completed all the things we’re responsible for:  Hydro connection  Water treatment...

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link to Our Manufactured Home: Factory Visit and Delivery Day Video

Our Manufactured Home: Factory Visit and Delivery Day Video

Following up on our first interview with Quality Homes, here is our factory visit and delivery day from their point of view. Many thanks to their amazing media crew for amping up the excitement and...

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link to Do We Need a Generator for Our New Home?

Do We Need a Generator for Our New Home?

When we were choosing where to build our home, we realized that one aspect of living in a remote area and on the grid, is the risk of long-duration power outages. In our area, because of the low...

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link to How to Make Your Hydro Installation Go Smoothly

How to Make Your Hydro Installation Go Smoothly

We've learned a lot from our experience getting hydro to our new build. So, we thought it would be nice to share what we know now with you to help your experience go as smoothly as possible too. I...

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link to Getting Hydro to Our New Build

Getting Hydro to Our New Build

One huge factor in the on-site finishing of our factory built home is the ability to power the equipment needed. We did look into the possibility of getting a temporary hydro hookup but since we...

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link to Finishing Our Factory Built Home – The First Weeks On Site

Finishing Our Factory Built Home – The First Weeks On Site

Heads UP! This isn’t my usual “sunshine and happiness” post, but I think it might be one of my most important ones and hope you read all the way through. In my eyes, this post is precisely why...

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Who is The Cottage Wife?

Hi! I'm Carol - The Cottage Wife. My husband Brian and I had a cottage on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada for over 10 years. It turns out that we love the area so much we're going to build our forever (retirement) home here. I thought it would be fun to share some of our adventures with you. One of the things we really want to focus on is making as light an impact on the land as we can, while still living a modern life. We'll see how that goes!

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