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Dream cottage: an off-the-grid Haliburton hideaway

By Toronto Life

| August 10, 2009

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Dream cottage: an off-the-grid Haliburton hideaway

Four years ago this summer, Joseph Franke, co-owner of Boomer, a menswear shop on Queen West, and Carlo Mirzian, a sales associate at Holt Renfrew, began building their dream retreat—a windowed waterfront “cocoon” near Haliburton. See how it turned out >>

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