1972 Little Long Lake Road, Frontenac, ON

Description

A custom-built log home finished on four levels, with geothermal heating, a salt-water pool, film screening room, forty foot ceilings, over 500 feet of waterfront, almost three acres. I have a persistent image in my head of world leaders congregating beneath the towering trees on Little Long Lake Road, or around the saltwater pool with their oh-so-white knees, hammering out far-reaching policy agreements. To reduce it to its essentials, it is an exquisitely rendered four-season log home powered over four floors by geothermal energy. The lower level could well be a separate two-bedroom residence. Fill the fridge and away you go. The cinema is down here, and that snooker table. The floors underfoot are heated, of course, and as you pad to the eastern end of the space, and out to the pool deck, pausing only to lift rolled towels from the cart, you feel you might have been transported here by helicopter, or in the winter by sleigh. The counters - the full acre of them - are in granite and the cabinets above are jointed and polished as if for a French Chateau. There are skylights and fireplaces, beams big enough to hold up New York. There are winding stairs to a hidden retreat with porthole enough to float a whale through. In total you'll eventually find five bedrooms (but could certainly make more) and four and a half bathrooms. The appliances - Miele and Liebherr - are all top-notch, the Starlink and Bell Fibe work like a dream, and the EV charger is crouched at the side of the house like a dog waiting to welcome you home. Talk to the sellers nicely and they might well leave the three-person infra-red sauna. Outside, there is enough decking to make a ballroom, and a new stone firepit with wood storage. The idea is that your friends (or your ministers and presidents) are out here while the sun sinks into the water and the trees fill with colour.