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Scott McGillivray Turns an Old Cottage Into a Zen Holiday Hideaway

Ah, vacation: a chance to get away from it all so you can rest, relax and recharge. With so many weary wanderers looking for a place to catch up on their R&R, a spacious cottage on a tranquil lake should be booked up with vacation renters – but that wasn’t the case for one family’s run-down Muskoka property. To help them turn their aging cottage into a sought-after rental, real estate expert and contractor Scott McGillivray put his vacation house rules to work – and the results were totally Zen.



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