Custom Residential Design & Renovation
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Clovelly Cottage
Adjacent to the open expanse of Georgian Bay, three modest cabins were dramatically transformed to enhance the qualities of their island setting. The primary cabin’s kitchen replaced a covered porch dramatically opening the main living space. An addition provided a utility room, washroom, and mudroom, while a timber-framed screened porch, and a large, glazed sitting...
Lytton Park Ravine Residence
This spectacular ravine site in Lytton Park had a complex and unresolved architectural pedigree. The original residence, a compact 1940s stone cottage, received an ambitious but compromised modernist addition in the 1970s. ERA was asked to stitch the two eras and architectures together into a more cohesive whole. ERA’s custom residential studio excelled at finding...
Big Sound Cottage
Big Sound Rd. winds through rugged Canadian Shield landscape along the eastern edge of Georgian Bay. This house is sited at the crest of a hill along Big Sound, with views looking south and west across the Bay. ERA was hired to design a house that responded to the Shield landscape, and which took full...
