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White cedar covers gabled lake house in Canada by YH2
Canadian firm YH2 has completed a contemporary cabin beside a lake in Quebec, with pale cedar cladding running up the exterior walls and over its gabled roof.
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The home is aptly titled Window on the Lake after a glazed wall that fills the gabled end of a double-height living room.
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This great room looks out onto the body of water and wooden steps leading down to a dock on the shore. The roof extends beyond the glazing to form a small porch over a seating area.
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The residence measures 1,507 square feet (140 square metres) across two storeys, and is designed to comfortably accommodate eight people.
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Based in Montreal, YH2 built the house on the site of an old family cottage, in a small clearing with woods on either side.
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Its layout comprises an open-plan living room and kitchen on its ground floor, with a large light wood dining table anchoring the sunlit space.
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Two bathrooms and two bedrooms are also located on the lower level, while a room with four double-sized beds arranged on either side of the walls is found upstairs. To save room on storage space, drawers slide up underneath the four bedframes.
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A lofted office and sitting area overlook the great room below, with glass half-walls creating a transparent barrier. The building's balloon frame is exposed across the walls and ceiling.
"Its exposed wooden studs and joists painted white give the building a unique rhythm of shadow and light," said YH2.
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Horizontal cedar boards wrap the exterior of the house, both on the walls and across the pitched roof, emphasising the length of the design.
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Across both long facades are three tall windows, interspersed evenly with black metal ribbons, which complement the home's symmetry.
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The house is located midway between Montreal and Quebec City in the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains – a popular getaway for urbanites from both cities. Other nearby retreats include a black A-frame cottage by Jean Verville and a two-storey cliffside residence with a large outdoor deck by Alain Carle.
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Among YH2 has completed several homes in Canada's Quebec province, such as a ski chalet with a V-shaped timber roof modelled on bird's wings, an angular cottage covered in dark shingled with a stark white nook upstairs, and a two-storey lakehouse with a concrete base on upper gabled design clad in lightwood.
Photography is by Francis Pelletier.