A change is as good as a rest.

Well, I got entirely sick of my site design.

So in order to give myself a break from seeing the guy with the old outboard motor I decided just to park the site under Chris Pearson’s fabulous Cutline theme, just until I get a chance to redesign.

It’s going to be another Cottage-inspired design, once I get around to it. I’m just trying to collect some inspiration about how to have a site that really suggests Old Muskoka. The last one was a reference to the old National Geographic magazines that are found at every summer place, complete with ads for Evinrudes.

But I need some fresh Cottage elements. Wooden boats, sunsets from the dock and … what else? What are some of the iconic elements that really define the cottage experience?

Leave your suggestions in the comments!

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11 Comments

  1. Jesse, himself.
    Posted March 2, 2008 at 10:00 am | Permalink

    Canoes.

  2. Tony
    Posted March 2, 2008 at 11:20 am | Permalink

    Bloodshot eyes.

  3. Tony
    Posted March 2, 2008 at 11:22 am | Permalink

    I liked the last look!

  4. Jesse, himself.
    Posted March 2, 2008 at 1:23 pm | Permalink

    The next one will be even better: this time the guy holding the outboard will have bloodshot eyes!

  5. Posted March 2, 2008 at 7:38 pm | Permalink

    Old Eaton’s catalogues in the bathroom! These aren’t for self amusement but rather to elevate the decorating standard in most cottage bathrooms.

    Since you’re so smart, was it the Eaton’s catalogues that airbrushed out the navels in underwear images, or Simpsons ?

  6. Jesse, himself.
    Posted March 2, 2008 at 10:39 pm | Permalink

    @Rick: Ah, yes! Two models wearing pajamas, pointing and one of them inexplicably holding a duck decoy. I remember those catalogues well.

    As for the navels – I am going to take that question under advisement to Pub Quiz tomorrow night. One of those rounders will surely know the answer…

  7. Jim Murphy
    Posted March 3, 2008 at 9:13 am | Permalink

    Whatever you settle on has to include a collection of never used fishing tackle. Cottagers are loath to part with any of it. We still have a couple of old steel rods at our place that predate me. They wouldn’t even make good skewers for the BBQ but they remain in the shed like prized family heirlooms.

  8. Jesse, himself.
    Posted March 3, 2008 at 9:18 am | Permalink

    @Murph – man, you’ve got that right. I had an old steel tackle-box from my grandfather – it ended getting left outside one winter and became a rust-bucket. But inside I found a card for a reel that he had that listed the repair centre for it as Maple Avenue North in Port Credit, with a five-digit phone number.

    Talk about a small world.

    You’re absolutely right – tackle’s got figure into this thing.

  9. Donnie Bowes
    Posted March 8, 2008 at 11:32 am | Permalink

    A weather-beaten rain slicker hung on a nail by an old screen door with an empty thread spool for a knob.

  10. Donnie Bowes
    Posted March 8, 2008 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

    2 lawn ornaments that look like Katherine Hepburn & Henry Fonda

  11. Jesse, himself.
    Posted March 8, 2008 at 3:10 pm | Permalink

    Donnie: The slicker sounds great–the lawn ornaments? Not so much :)

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