VINTAGE By Design

A new hybrid timber-frame home was created to have classic old house appeal. Paul and his wife Nathalie purchased 45 acres of land (parts of it extending to the edge of a quiet lake in the Lachute region of the Laurentians in Quebec) with plans to subdivide it into lakefront lots to sell to others. After walking around the land a few times and spotting a location on top of the mountain with a spectacular view of the lake, the couple decided to keep the land and build their own country home.