The kitchen in his West Island home has become one of Roger Lavoie’s favorite rooms. He comes downstairs every morning, pulls up the blinds, then sits down for breakfast and soaks up the backyard scenery. Lavoie, co-founder and...

Photography: Larry Arnal The homeowners knew from the start that they would find a place in their home for a stained-glass window that had once hung in the husband’s grandmother’s house in Iraq. It has been installed between...

PHOTOGRAPHY: PETER POWLES (main house) and KAREN REDFERN (guesthouse) The guesthouse stands tall among the trees. Its most impressive feature is the expansive remote-controlled front window – 11 feet wide by 20 feet tall – that is actually...

PHOTOGRAPHY: BARRY CALHOUNSTYLING: ALYSSA LEWIS In the great room, a massive 54-inch-wide Town and Country fireplace was given a stone surround. Todd Best works closely with all his clients. He is a custom builder after all, and each...

A family’s Eastern Townships country home provides year-round tranquility

Gold elements create a luxe ambience in the room that the homeowners use for entertaining. A white onyx fireplace surround makes a strong design statement. Polished-brass and matte-black sculptural birds take flight across one wall. PHOTOGRAPHY: LARRY ARNAL...

The client was an avid plant collector, a woman well-versed in horticulture who had been trying this and that for many years. But somehow it never came together.