Wayne and Martina Hanlon had no intention of building a cabin on their piece of land near Whitbourne. It was just a place where they could escape the city, get into the woods and play with their toys – snow machines and the like – without having to haul everything back and forth. They had […]
The cabin on the outskirts of Holyrood is nearly 40 years old, says current owner John Harris during the half-hour walk in over a snow machine trail that, in the summer, is a road. The pickup truck is parked a few kilometres away, about as close as it gets at this time of year. Between […]
Boutique hotels inspired this glam bedroom redesign by Charli Junker of Your Space Our Design, who transformed it from 90s-era stale to modern-day chic. The bedroom fireplace looked like a bread oven before the renovation, says Charli. It was given an update by building it out with a stone wall, adding depth to give the […]
We profiled St. John’s based furniture maker and woodworker John Lundrigan for the summer, 2018 print issue of Home & Cabin. In this short video, John introduces himself and explains the sort of work he enjoys doing. As a furniture maker, John’s main interest is in making custom, live edge furniture from locally sourced woods […]
John Sweetland, a fisherman with deep family roots in Bonavista, built this house for himself in about 1874. He used rope and oakum to seal the house from drafts, and raised seven children in the home. His youngest, James, inherited the home in 1914 and decided to add the double peaked front to mimic the […]
Head into Summerville and you can’t miss it. It’s yellow and different. Those are the instructions for finding Stratford Canning’s seasonal home in this small fishing village on the Bonavista Peninsula. Although it won’t be mistaken for a traditional Newfoundland home, it was heavily influenced by outport Newfoundland styles. Inspired by the fishing stages and […]
Simplicity was one of the things Michael Harrington and Evelyn Reid were looking for when they considered building a house in Admiral’s Cove. But they also wanted something personal that fit with who they were and what they wanted. Their only option, as they saw it, was to commission architect Robert Mellin to design their […]
In 1893, the LeMessurier family built a house in the centre of St. John’s with commanding views of the harbour and narrows from the large bay windows, stacked in two columns and rising three storeys. From 1893 until the early 1960s, the house was owned and lived in by members of the same family. It […]
Baine Harbour, on the Burin Peninsula, is the sort of place where the docks are lined with fishing boats, both big and small. It’s the sort of place where people live, quite literally, on the water. Take, for instance, Marie Bishop’s recent renovation project that transformed an old house and store shed into an expansive […]
“It’s just comfort. As soon as you come in it’s relaxation,” says Paul when asked what he likes most about living in a log home. Open the door to this home in the middle of Paradise and the smell of cut wood washes over you. The long view is a stained glass door, framed by […]
