How Would You and Your Family Design a Fully Accessible Lakeside Cottage Retreat?

CedarCoast designs multi-generational cottages with your family's unique future in mind.

When designing your cottage, do you look forward to welcoming everyone? At CedarCoast, accessibility has become a key focus, ensuring that each guest and family member - from adventurous kids to grandparents - can enjoy every opportunity your home offers without barriers, far into the future.

As you view this video, walking through this remarkable home, please consider the countless design choices on display and how they fit so naturally together. What works for you and your family will be different, but please consider how your family's accommodations and requirements, literally how your future cottage 'fits' - might evolve going forward.

The look of this cottage, stylized as Mid-Century Modern, is rooted in functionality, clean lines, and simplicity. The collaborative work of the CedarCoast Design Team was influenced by the client’s incorporation of timely pieces such as treasured furniture, period art, and décor.

Interior Features

How do we do it?

CedarCoast Partner, Patrick Bongers shows some of the early progress inside this remarkable home. He presents details of sanding and pre-staining while explaining finishing touches on the doors and Douglas Fir beams.

It's sunlit and bright, and the workers can proceed with plenty of room to maneuver. The light and openness are already becoming enduring features of this extraordinary cottage!

To see the first views of the exterior of this cottage, click here: Building an Accessible Cottage on Muskoka's Camel Lake.

Is this how you and your family might approach the design of your cottage?

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