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Terry and Colleen Hughes are enjoying the warm sun and the mesmerizing flow of the Beaver River. They watch as a couple paddles by in a canoe. They wave, and take a deep breath. This is the life!The couple have 2,000 feet of river access at their front door, as well as the constant sound of the river in all of its natural spendour – good for the mind and soul.
Hidden in a green world, just off a street in Collingwood, lies the home of Frannie and Peter Coolican. Their revitalized home is an architectural gem afloat in a sea of tall pines and flowering fruit trees.The precious stone that comes to mind is emerald, because of the expanse of natural greenery that surrounds and infiltrates the home at every turn.
Chances are, you’ve visited one of the many beautiful garden centres here in Southern Georgian Bay. Since then, you’ve planted and pruned, watered and fertilized.
“Service is our specialty. We aspire to do better and better every day.”THE PLACE: The original Nottawa General Store, built in the mid 1850s, is now home to Dovetail Interiors — Design, Furnishings, Consultation — owned by Tricia Jeffery. This unique destination store, with its original pine floors, wooden shelves, brickwork and one-of-a-kind open second floor balcony, provides a unique backdrop for the tastefully arranged vignettes of furnishings for the home. A unique coach house, with its varied selection of bedding, bath and ladies’ accessories, allows customers to
It’s about enjoying the atmosphere and the colours at Heron Croft gardens.Inside and out, Nancy and Paul Grigg’s home perfectly matches their personalities. It’s hard not to smile in the presence of this fun-loving couple and their country home in Balaclava.
“In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence.” –Robert Lynd
THE STYLE: Cottage life and outdoor living
There is a wooden, hand written sign outside the entrance to Paul and Rose Mailloux’s cottage on the scenic south shore of Colpoy’s Bay in Georgian Bluffs entitled, MAILLOUX WEATHER ROPE. It reads:
If the rope is…
Most people look at a piece of driftwood and see but a piece of wood. John Eagleson sees something more.“I’ve always been interested in driftwood,” says Eagleson. “Growing up in Southampton on Lake Huron, it’s something that’s there every spring. The ice carries it in and then, when it melts in the spring, it leaves behind these incredible pieces of wood.”
THE STYLE: Stones of distinction and pure elegance.
When she sat atop the staircase and surveyed the house, Paula Lynn-Meridis knew this 1970s side-split was going to be her family’s next home.She could see the kitchen straight ahead, the quiet street out the front door to the right, a spacious yard through the living room window to her left and the door leading to the covered patio just below her. She remembers thinking it was a rather open layout for a ‘70s side-split and it gave her a good feeling.
Inside and out, this Barrie home is a living canvas being retouched regularly by decorator and resident Michael Peirone.“There’s always a project going on in our home,” says the owner of Renderings Interiors. “My wife says it’s a good thing she’s not blind, or she’d trip over furniture when she gets home.”
Tim Kennedy of Wyewood Custom Cabinets smiles broadly when he talks about his career as a custom cabinet maker. “I have only one specialty – carpentry, and maybe gardening… I’ve been doing this since I was 15,” he says. “That’s 24 years, now.”
Dr. Robert Sheppard has been waiting 40 years to build a log structure.Sheppard commutes to his northern vacation property from Houston, Texas, where he’s the Director of Emergency Services at North Cypress Medical Centre.
Their work is in New York City, but their hearts are just north of Parry Sound.Careers have taken this dynamic couple from London, Ontario – where they lived for 25 years and raised three children – to Toronto, and then to the “Big Apple” last fall.
STYLE: Elegant and fun.
James Tough has found his calling, and it’s in a barrel.No, it’s not whiskey or wine. It’s hand-made furniture.
A Belle River couple enjoys the ultimate in indoor and outdoor livingWhen you drive toward Lake St. Clair in the summertime you are reminded of fun-filled vacations, the smell of sun tan oil and trips to old Ontario cottages with mismatched furniture. But the Trepanier-Dupuis home makes you rethink your idea of fun times – especially when you can live year-round with the utmost in style – both inside and out.
What would a builder build for himself? Gino Piccioni chose a fusion of traditional design with contemporary flare to create what he calls a “transitional look” in his one-and-a-half storey French-country-inspired home. Piccioni is the founder of the multi-award winning Lasalle-based Timberland Homes. His firm, which specializes in custom homes, serves Windsor and the surrounding area.
The legacy continues…THE PLACE: Jackson’s Fine Gifts
As a child, Ron Gosselin loved to draw. When he got older, he loved to tinker with things mechanical. Now, due to a few of life’s surprising curveballs, he gets to do both.
When he was laid off from his job in 2004, Ron and his wife Melanie decided he would become “Mr. Mom” so their daughters, Allison and Madison, who are now six and three, would have a stay-at-home parent for a few years. The layoff actually
For John and Maria Parish, the wait was worth it.Two summers ago they moved from Georgetown to their beautiful, inviting home in Erinbrook Country Estates, a short drive from Main Street in the picturesque village of Erin.
Jason Ashdown stands in the great room of his Guelph home where, 20 years ago, a pastor stood on the pulpit and preached to his congregation.“Tara did not have the instant vision that I did,” Ashdown says, grinning as he describes his house saga.
THE PLACE: Barber Gallery, southwestern Ontario’s largest independent gallery complete with a gift shop and custom framing, located in a historic limestone factory, in a quiet neighbourhood near downtown Guelph. Rustic beams and soaring ceilings provide an exhilarating backdrop for three floors of display space for regional, national and international artists and artisans.
Doris and Lou Bozzelli fell in love at George Brown College in 1985 – with each other and making furniture. They were both enrolled in the Furniture Production and Design Program.
“For us building great furniture is a combination of everything we’re passionate about – timeless designs, traditional craftsmanship, the finest materials, a relaxing, satisfying shopping experience,” says Doris. “We’re lucky to love what we do…our customers deserve the most well-made comfortable, stylish sofa we can build for them – the key is to keep it just that simple.”
