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Fontana & Compagnie

Eastman Escape

Redesigning this weekend home near Eastman for empty-nester clients meant striking a delicate balance between refreshing existing features, establishing intriguing new focal points, and still allowing the home’s stunning Eastern Townships views to shine.

To make the spaces warm and liveable, Romina introduced textural elements, from beautifully grained wood furniture and nubby rugs to a new microcement treatment on the chimney breast. She amplified the contemporary style with pieces like the blue Danish-modern console in the entryway—a witty contrast to the antique paintings by Arthur Dominique Rozaire above—and the dining room’s linen-panelled pendant, inspired by the owners’ many sailing trips.

Judiciously added colour was drawn from the surrounding landscape. The bedroom features tranquil sky-blue bedding and grasscloth wallpaper, while the green kitchen evokes a shady forest. Upstairs, in the airy loft family room, a palette of earthy browns and greys feels cosy and inviting.

  • Double-height living room with a charcoal microcement chimney breast, leather lounge chair and ottoman, cream sectional and a blue abstract painting above a walnut sideboard
  • Fireplace wall clad in charcoal microcement beside tall clerestory windows, with a leather lounge chair, cork stool and nesting side tables
  • Living room facing a large picture window over the lake and hills, with a cream sectional, round black coffee tables and a lounge chair by the glass
  • Walnut credenza with fluted doors beneath a colourful landscape painting, beside a potted olive tree and a window onto the lake
  • View past the cream sectional and black coffee tables to the lounge chair, walnut sideboard and the lake beyond the tall windows
  • Sage-green kitchen with a marble-topped peninsula, three dark brown leather stools, stainless wall ovens and a bouquet of greenery
  • Green kitchen cabinetry and veined marble waterfall counters, with the living room fireplace and lake-view windows beyond
  • Marble waterfall peninsula with dark brown leather stools, green cabinets, a fiddle-leaf fig and windows onto the woods
  • Dining room with a black table, white chairs and a long linen-panelled pendant, framing a window view of the lake
  • Black dining table with white chairs and a branch centrepiece beneath the linen-panelled pendant, seen end-on, near the open-tread staircase
  • Slate-floored entry with a dark wood bench, a large colourful abstract painting, a potted plant and a striped blue runner
  • Cobalt-blue wall-mounted console beneath two small gilt-framed antique paintings, beside an open-tread wood staircase with a black railing
  • Close view of the cobalt console with a stone, a tray and white flowers, beneath two antique winter landscapes in carved gilt frames
  • Bedroom seen through a doorway: walnut headboard with floating nightstand, sky-blue bedding, grasscloth wallpaper and a faded blue rug
  • Corner of the bedroom with grasscloth wall, walnut headboard and nightstand, a blue ceramic lamp and a glimpse of the ensuite bath
  • Ensuite bathroom with white subway tile, a glass-walled shower with a green tile stripe, a vessel sink on a floating walnut shelf, chrome wall sconces and a soaking tub
  • Loft family room under a sloped ceiling: white sectional, navy leather armchair, round glass coffee table and a red-and-grey rug
  • Navy leather armchair, fiddle-leaf fig and framed textile panels by tall windows in the loft, with an architectural model on the glass coffee table
  • Powder room with deep blue walls, a floating white vanity, chrome faucet, white two-globe wall sconce and a window onto the trees
  • Large round black-framed window looking onto trees and the lake, with a small white dog sitting on the rug

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