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Cottage country Designers Sarah Richardson and Tommy Smythe are at it again, tackling another makeover on a remote island for the new HGTV series, Sarah’s Rental Cottage. Karen Turner of the Ottawa Citizen gets an inside look. Tommy Smythe is no fan of cottages, wobbly docks or bloodthirsty mosquitoes, but that didn’t stop the Toronto city slicker from following fellow designer Sarah Richardson to a remote island to do another HGTV makeover show. “I love the adventure of it,” says Smythe, who spent six weeks last summer on a Georgian Bay island in Ontario, helping Richardson and her husband Alexander Younger transform a 1950s bungalow into an inviting retreat for Sarah’s Rental Cottage, a six-episode mini series that started April 9. “We can turn anything into something fun.” Smythe has been Richardson’s quirky sidekick since her first TV show Design Inc., aired 13 years ago. But Sarah’s Rental Cottage is a reunion of sorts. The duo haven’t been together on camera for nearly three years. “The weirder the challenge, the more we want
BEFORE: The 1950s bungalow. to do it,” says Richardson, 43, who credits Younger for coming up with the idea of remodelling a rental cottage. About seven years ago the couple renovated their family summer home on Georgian Bay for HGTV Canada’s Sarah’s Cottage. “He started this whole mess ... It was a last-minute idea in July that came together quickly. We had to have it shot by Labour Day,” says the Gemini-winning TV host and mother of two during a recent phone interview from Toronto. In the end, taping didn’t wrap up until the first week of October, which was still a huge accomplishment considering every inch — inside and out — of the threebedroom cottage was given a fresh update and all the
materials had to be delivered by barge. “I still have all my fingers,” quips Smythe, who rolled up the sleeves of his trademark plaid shirt to help Richardson paint, build and decorate every room in the rustic, off-the-grid cottage. With little time to spare, Richardson says work was divided into two groups: the “Department of Interiors,” which she and Smythe oversaw and the “Department of Exteriors” headed by handy Younger, who tackled all of the outdoor upgrades, including the construction of a deck for watching the sunset, clearing trees to expand the water views and replacing rotten beams and wood cladding.
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PHOTOS: SARAH’S RENTAL COTTAGE/HGTV
AFTER: A coat of white paint on the ceiling and walls, and bright green on the floors takes the cottage out of the 1950s and into the 21st century.
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