Contemporary Mirrored Lake Cottage – Bolsover, Ontario, Canada By UUfie

With not even 700 square feet, Lake Cottage by Toronto-primarily based type studio UUfie manages to really feel airy with plentiful spaces which morph beautifully with its forestal surroundings shut to the Kawartha Lakes. Situated in Bolsover, Ontario, Canada, this modest modern dream house is a retreat in the woods, a spot to ponder and appreciate a definitive connection with nature.

Envisioned as an natural framework, the A-frame cottage is a new extension linked to an current home, and is clad in matte black steel and charred cedar wood with other locally-sourced sustainable characteristics. An entrance terrace of glass-and-mirrors with tree-stump flooring tiles enables for a perpetual interplay in amongst the outdoors and within spaces, reflecting the trees and rural landscape magnificently. The shiny parts paired with the white birch bark, green spruce trees and white powdery snow is sensational.

The residing region receives the steep pitch, a minimalist room with a wood-burning fireplace with constructed-in timber storage designed to resemble the roofline. Windows, glass lower-outs and skylights carved into the walls and roof filter in all-natural daylight which contributes further brightness to the interiors of whitewashed woods.

Other than a woven wooden chair right here and a plush animal-skin rug there, furnishings are pretty much non-existent, permitting each and every the indoor living spaces and earthy outside to be loved without having obstruction or distraction.

The dining spot, which connects to the main residence, is an fascinating area, entirely glazed with black abstract tree types. Two openings on 1 distinct wall give views into the adjacent residing area.

A single of the home’s focal factors is the staircase consisting of a sole tree log slatted with wooden measures, so spectacular with its raw electrical power. It ascends to the quaint loft which functions an whole wall of pale blue-stained wooden fish scales which are also noticed as skylight coverings in the residing area.

A contemporary dream residence, Lake Cottage is a rustic stunner with its illusional mirrored surfaces and enchanting, bare style and design evocative of the timbered landscape it resides within.