Northern Style Exposure.

and also this is the project that I’ll be sharing on the CIL Woodcare main stage at the Cottage Life Show in just a few days!.CIL challenged me to come up with a fun, cottagey, project to share with all the cottagers at the upcoming Spring Cottage Life Show in Mississauga April 1-3, and to help them spread the good word about their line up of Woodcare products (CIL Woodcare Distinction™, Fine Wood Finish and Canadian Wood Oil) exclusively available at The Home Depot that are perfect for all kinds of different outdoor projects where we want lasting beauty and protection.

What’s more cottagey than relaxing and enjoying a few festive beverages out on the deck with friends and family?.I’m really proud of how well this project turned out.It’s both impressive-looking and super-functional and of course, it was pretty easy to pull together since we have an almost unlimited supply of barn wood out back!

Here’s how we did it!.We started out with a barn..

I need to let you know right now, that we don’t actually own this barn.

It’s behind our house, but all the land on the other side of the creek is owned by a big German company who leases it out to local farmers.It’s even better than it looked on the showroom floor in the furniture store!

I especially love the fact that even though we’re not careful around this fridge and get our messy hands all over it, hardly any fingerprint marks show up at all.There’s almost no maintenance to this thing now!.

Who’d have thunk it?.And just because I love a good cleaning tip, here are some of the other great ideas that the good people of Facebook shared with me the other day!.