A Five-Bedroom House on 106 Acres in Quebec
$1.58 MILLION (2.175 MILLION CANADIAN DOLLARS)
Set on 106 wooded acres in Val-des-Lacs, a village in the Laurentians mountain range of southern Quebec, Canada, this five-bedroom, three-bathroom home enjoys panoramic views of the mountains, the adjacent Archambault River and the property’s abundant maple trees.
The home, built in 2004, “offers a landscape you wouldn’t get anywhere else in Quebec,” said Félix Giguère, partner and broker at Barnes International Realty Quebec in Montreal, and the listing agent. The estate also features a large artificial pond with a diving dock. “With the pond on one side and the river on the other, you see water from every room of the house.”
The seller, a Montreal-based building contractor, wanted the house “to reflect the immensity of the property,” Mr. Giguère said. Materials including cast-iron, cherry wood and stone were used “to capture the feel of the Laurentians.”
A country road leads to the home’s wrought-iron gates, which open to an unpaved road leading to a wood bridge and a large garage structure.
Farther up the drive, the home’s front door opens to a great room whose ceilings soar as high as 20 feet. Long, symmetrical windows are “the main element of the house,” Mr. Giguère said. “Every room receives light all day long.”
The sculpted image of a pine tree embellishes a tall stone fireplace, and a door near the fireplace opens to the primary bedroom suite. A steel walkway floats overhead, stretching from the top of a staircase to a windowed seating area.
Cast-iron hardware complements gleaming cherry cabinets in the kitchen, where the sellers also commissioned local artisans to build an antique-style gas stove “in the method they used to build old Canadian ovens,” Mr. Giguère said. A four-season sunroom off the kitchen features a peaked ceiling.
Two more bedrooms and a bathroom are on the upper floor. The lower level has a family room, guest bedroom, office, laundry room and access to an attached one-car garage.
The estate’s acreage includes landscaped trails for hiking, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling, Mr. Giguère said. To tap their maple trees, the owners also built a “sugar shack” where they bottled their own maple syrup.
The tiny village of Val-des Lacs sits 18 miles northeast of the popular Mont Tremblant resort, with its shopping, services and small airport. Montreal is 75 miles southeast, and the Champlain, N.Y.,…
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