Take a Tour Through an Exceptional Lake Muskoka Offering, Listed By Maggie Tomlinson

Property comes with a couple’s seasons pass for a year to Kirrie Glen Golf Course - right across the street.

As anyone who’s spent time looking for a lakeside Muskoka home knows, the search can be a lot to take on. Between visiting properties, flipping through cottage style magazines, and scrolling through listings both inside and outside of your budget, decision fatigue and frustration often set in. In this process, it can be good to remember that sometimes a property equals more than the sum of its parts.

For Chestnut Park broker Maggie Tomlinson, a recent listing on Lake Muskoka is one such property, offering not just a long string of hits on the wish list, but also an in-the-flesh experience that somehow outdoes even the promise of those collected attributes.

Pristine and Pretty with Perfect views

While it would make a wonderful cottage, the home has always been lived in year-round, with the attendant upkeep and meticulous care that one would expect of a primary residence, including a newly drilled well in 2022 and furnace and air-conditioning installed in 2021. At 3,100 square feet of living space, the sprawling bungalow includes three bedrooms with ensuites, a den, and a large, bright kitchen with a charming breakfast nook overlooking the lake. The open-concept kitchen spills out into a gorgeous four-season heated sunroom via three sets of French doors, flooding the whole area with natural light and lending it an ambience of leisure and limitless space. From the sunroom or, indeed, the expansive wraparound decks that envelop the lake side of the building, one has the opportunity to take in truly breathtaking 180-degree southern exposure views across Lake Muskoka toward Pine Island. “The sun sparkles beautifully off the water for the majority of the day,” says Maggie, “and the home is designed to take in really privileged views of the lake, so that summer sparkle is everywhere, indoors and out.”

In addition to a cozy formal living room with exposed brick fireplace and dedicated dining area, a sunken family room overlooks the lake, providing plenty of space and the ideal flow for entertaining family and friends, even when the weather isn’t great.

And because the house has been lived in year-round, it has abundant storage space, something that—as many remote workers learned during the pandemic—is not an easy element to retrofit into a seasonal cottage when you decide to move in full time. Along the same lines, an enormous detached three-car garage could easily be used as a workshop or studio for the artisan looking to take their workplace lakeside.

An Oasis at the Centre of Things

The 1.43-acre property is conveniently located on Muskoka Road/Highway 118 between Bracebridge and Port Carling. The avid golfer will be delighted to have the prestigious The Fairways at Kirrie Glen golf course mere minutes away and to enjoy a complimentary trial one-year membership at Kirrie Glen as part of the purchase of the home. The family foodie, meanwhile, will thrill at walking-distance access to the golf course’s esteemed restaurant, The Grill, and the gourmet restaurants of the luxurious Touchstone Resort. And because it is located on a well-maintained, fully serviced year-round paved municipal road, reliable access to nearby shopping, entertainment, and services is assured.

Neighboured on one side by the luxury Touchstone Resort, the visible area of the resort from the cottage property is limited to a section of beach, a situation Maggie views as a plus. “I call it a ‘favourable neighbour’ situation,” she explains. “Because of noise restriction rules and the family nature of the resort, you can rest easy that late-night partying next door neighbours are unlikely to be a problem,” something that, unfortunately, is largely out of your control in most private-home neighbour situations.

On the other side of the property is a lovely, protected cove, where a single-slip dock provides boat access and safe swimming without interrupting the wide water view from the home. Add to that a topography that is gentle and family friendly for both the very young and the young at heart, and you have a winning combination of elements, equalling and, indeed, exceeding the sum of its parts. For the prospective buyer looking for an idyllic location to live, work, and play on one of the most sought-after lakes in Muskoka, the search may be over at last.