Dock at Dusk Acoustic Art Panel
From $219.00
Cottage country on the wall
For a lot of Canadians, summer means the lake. Muskoka, the Kawarthas, Georgian Bay, wherever your spot is, it's docks, canoes and a chair facing the water. This collection is built around that feeling, for the weeks you're at the lake and the months you wish you were.
Cottage Lake has all of it: pines on the far shore, two people paddling a canoe and an red Muskoka chair on a rock. Dock at Dusk is the same lake later on, the sun going down behind a chair at the end of the dock.
Fields, flowers and long evenings
Not every summer is spent on the water. Sunflower Field is a sunny field of big yellow blooms under a blue sky, and Wildflower Meadow is softer, loose pinks, yellows and blues.
Prairie Evening is a long summer evening out west, and Georgian Bay Morning is the start of a cottage day, mist still on the water and the pines standing on pink granite.
Bright art for busy rooms
Summer art tends to land in the busiest rooms of the house: the kitchen, the family room, the place everyone ends up. Those rooms are usually the loudest too, with hard floors, big windows and a lot of talking.
Every piece here is printed on a sound absorbing panel, so along with the blue water and sunshine you get less echo and a room that's easier to talk in. Start with the biggest bare wall, and add a single panel across from it if the room still sounds loud.
Questions people ask
Will acoustic panels soundproof my room?
No, and anyone who says so is stretching it. Acoustic panels absorb sound inside the room, so there's less echo and it sounds softer and calmer. They won't stop noise coming through the walls from the neighbours. For that you need building work, not art.
Will a cottage mural work in the city?
Sure. Plenty of people hang cottage scenes in city condos as a reminder of where they'd rather be. A big lake view can make a small room feel more open.
What's a Muskoka chair?
It's the wide, slanted wooden lawn chair you see on docks all over cottage country. In the US it's usually called an Adirondack chair. Same chair, different name.