§ 01 — MID-SUMMER 2023
Two Projects, One Property
Mid-summer 2023 brought two completions at Walkers Point — the cottage and the boathouse, both finished and handed over within the same season. It’s not often that a full property comes together at once. When it does, you get to see what a complete composition looks like before the first summer of use.
Both projects are featured below. Each has its own page with full photography and documentation. This post is the overview — the property as a whole, and what it took to get here.
§ 02 — WALKERS POINT BOATHOUSE
Two Storeys Above the Water
The Walkers Point Boathouse rises two storeys from the dock. The programme is layered and simple — covered slips below, habitable space above. Large overhangs shade the decks and soften the transition between structure and water, keeping the boathouse cool through the Muskoka summer while protecting the envelope from rain and snow.
Built with Broadview Building Company, the boathouse sits at the intersection of utility and repose: functional at the water level, generous and calm above it.
§ 03 — WALKERS POINT COTTAGE
The Main House
The Walkers Point Cottage is the anchor of the property. Where the boathouse is about the water’s edge, the cottage is about arrival — the approach from the driveway, the entry sequence, the first views through to the lake. The cottage and boathouse were designed together, which meant the material palette, the roof pitches, and the relationship to the site could be resolved as one composition.
§ 04 · THE FEATURE
Our Homes Muskoka — Mid-Summer 2023
The project was featured in the Mid-Summer 2023 issue of Our Homes Muskoka. Eight pages covering the property, the design process, and the finished result.
§ 05 — THE THROUGH-LINE
A Property, Not Just a Building
The best cottage properties work as systems — the main house, the boathouse, the dock, the landscape, all resolved together. Walkers Point is that. Two structures, one material language, one visual logic that runs from the driveway to the water’s edge.
Mid-summer 2023 was the moment both buildings were finished and the property became what it was always supposed to be.
