Slow mornings are the best mornings. Waking up without an alarm, sipping a coffee while catching up on magazine reading, followed by a waffles and bacon sort of breakfast, then some quality time playing with the dog before heading out on the day’s adventures. These are special, cherished mornings. Maybe it’s because they only happen […]
Curling up by the fire on a cold winter’s night is the best. Here are seven of our favourites that have been featured in the pages of Home & Cabin magazine. Everything about this room space screams antique, including the fireplace. But take a closer look – that’s an electric fireplace insert. While it may not […]
It’s a winter’s night in the 1920s in Heart’s Content. You’re sitting in the living room, looking out the bay window, as a coal fire warms the room. An oil lamp provides a bit of extra light for the book you just put down. The gramophone is playing your favourite classical recording. You close your […]
Wayne Daley opens the front door of his home, travel mug in hand, and walks down the front stairs with a few words of acknowledgement as he heads around the corner to the backyard, down the paved path to a detached shed about the size of a single car garage. It’s a tidy looking thing, […]
“It was all about the grandchildren. They’re 10 and 12 and I wanted them to experience an around the bay, ocean view, old house,” says Gail Parsons. When she first saw the newspaper ad for the house, she didn’t know where St. Joseph’s was. Figuring it was worth finding out, she set out with her […]
Woodworker Jerome Canning spends his summers making boats, each winter returning to his shop to work on the various furniture ideas floating through his head. But boats are never too far from his thoughts. It’s in his blood, really. “My father was a mariner and a carpenter, a typical Newfoundland man,” he says. When his […]
Small living has always interested Jon Soehl. Small apartments, small cars, very small homes – they enthral him. His fascination with tiny has culminated in the Bonavista, the first tiny home from his new company, Driftwood Dwellings. It’s very small – as small as he could possibly make it, partly as a personal challenge and […]
There’s a small piece of wood tacked to the rafter of Louis House’s basement workshop with a handwritten phrase – “You don’t make a living making bad furniture.” It serves as a reminder that good work is what puts food on the table. And this workshop is how Louis gets fed. He’s a professional woodworker, […]
Getting a cell signal in Heart’s Content can be difficult. Finding areas where your phone reads “no service” is far easier. It’s ironic, really, since the town was once a communications hub. But that was before cell phones – and even before land lines.The first telegraph line to connect Europe to North America came ashore […]
Jim Mallay leans in, getting a closer look at an under-construction garden seat on the workbench in the shop beside his house. This is the first time he’s built this version, and already he sees some changes that will be made for the second one. The piece is a two-seater, with an attached table between […]
