Designed by Snøhetta
Corbin Patten Designs served as the building designer of record and local design partner.
Where the treeline meets the water — a cottage built to disappear into one and glow from the other.
Lantern Cottage · Little Lake Joseph, ON · 2021
The Name
A cottage that lights the shore.
The name came before the drawings. Lantern Cottage would be visible from the water at dusk — warm light filtering through timber frames and generous glazing, a building that announces itself through warmth rather than mass. Designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with our office, the concept was rooted in a single conviction: that the best cottage is the one that belongs most deeply to its site.
The Design
Norwegian rigour, Muskoka setting.
Snøhetta — the Oslo-based firm behind the Norwegian National Opera and the 9/11 Memorial Museum Pavilion — brought a particular discipline to this project. Their design process begins with landscape and works inward. CPD served as building designer of record, carrying the concept through municipal approvals, adapting it to Little Lake Joseph’s site conditions, and assembling the trades capable of executing it in Muskoka. The result is a building that feels considered at every scale.
The Scale
Five bedrooms, one idea.
At 3,500 square feet with five bedrooms and five bathrooms, Lantern Cottage is generous without being excessive. Scott Custom Building led construction with a deep bench of Muskoka’s finest trades — Ovvio’s custom windows and doors, DDM Lighting, Miller Roofing, Muskoka Aluminum’s metalwork, and Ironside Welding’s custom fabrication. Every material decision was made in service of a building that weathers well and settles into its site over decades, not years.
In Print
The 2026 Range Rover House
Range Rover chose Lantern Cottage as the setting for the 2026 Range Rover House: Muskoka Edition. House & Home covered the house in August 2026 — charred cedar, the glazing that frames the shoreline, and the two-storey boathouse.
