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How Our Custom Cottage Designs Benefit Families

Family friendly custom cottage bedroom with bed, nursing chair and a baby's crib.

We approach custom cottage design with your family's future in mind.

At today's hectic pace, when schedules are packed and distractions are plentiful, finding time to connect with loved ones can feel like a real challenge. However, for many families, owning a custom waterfront cottage offers a retreat from the hustle of everyday life - a place where cherished memories are made and bonds are strengthened.

When you first meet CedarCoast, we will ask you to consider where your family might be in five or even ten years. Will your children be all grown up? Will they bring your grandkids to the cottage? Are you thinking of retiring here?

In this blog we will discuss how our timeless perspective brings unique benefits to your family far into the future. We can start by considering your family requirements over time.

Large, bright, open room with pool table and card table, bar with stools.

Watercraft, lakeside dock with Muskoka chairs in front of a custom cottage.

Talking to prospective customers about the value a truly custom cottage brings to families is the heart of everything we do. We approach every new design as an expression, and indeed a celebration of your family’s best moments.

Every morning brings a new day of family bonding in a cottage that is intentionally designed to reflect your family's personality.

Get started with our SmartPlan.

Grandfather with his grandson on a pier in a Muskoka lake.

Our interpretive skills put your family’s routines into floorplans, your style into the home's design, and your future cottage ownership into your ‘family vault’. We'll draw your floorplans around what each family member loves to do. Read 'Family Plans or Floorplans' blog post.

Owning a family cottage provides a peaceful escape to a place that is a pure expression of your family lifestyle, taste and in many cases, history. We'll help you discover what's possible with the architecture of your build, the way we build it, and whether we involve you or not in every decision, your choice, through every facet of your engagement with CedarCoast.

Fullly accessible cottage with living room, dining room, kitchen and home office all on one floor.

Wide, double entry doors to a rear patio made with concrete for smooth wheelchair access.

When CedarCoast designs your cottage it becomes an representation of your openness to ‘what’s next’. We design for maximum accessibility, so even the most senior, and perhaps the least able of your family, young or old, can come, partake and enjoy the retreat, regardless of what the future holds.

A previous customer writes about his family experience in the cottage they love:

" Hi Bert, nice to hear from you. We are all doing fine and this would have been our 11th season since we moved into the Desert Lake house..."

"We continue to love the cottage/house and over the past 10 years have spent as much time as possible there. I am now retired and my wife Mary Lou and I are able to spend the most time there through out the year enjoying all four seasons. John and his family have also been able to spend a lot of time there. Our families work together well and the partnership has worked perfectly since the start. Between our kids and grandchildren it is such a special place."

Read more about the lasting benefits of this family's cottage in our blog post, 'Multi-generational family loves their lakefront cottage.'