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House tour: Country casual cottage
A summer home that's a little bit country and a little bit casual
House Tours
House tour: Country casual cottage
A city couple finds an idyllic location to build the summer home of their dreams - with ample room for family and friends to visit.
Room to grow -- that’s what this couple craved after about 15 years of cottaging on Lake Joseph in Ontario’s Muskoka region. With two children in their 20s and a whole host of friends on the lake – not to mention carloads of weekend guests – the Oakville, Ont., pair was ready to stretch the square footage of their summer house.
With the perfect west-facing plot secured, the couple began the two-year process of designing and building the 4,000-square-foot cottage with five bedrooms and five bathrooms. But though they could now comfortably accommodate visitors, the homeowners wanted to ensure the space felt cozy despite its grand proportions.
Enter Port Carling-based designer Christopher Spraggett of The Summerhouse Group, who worked with the couple on their previous cottage as well as their Oakville home. “‘Light’ and ‘airy’ were the words that kept coming up,” he says. “But it was clear that the owners didn’t want a stark white cottage.”
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