Ros had always loved old saltbox houses and wanted her own place by the water. She and her husband, Brian, spent a year looking for a house, even contemplating building a new one when they couldn’t find what they wanted. Their wants weren’t unreasonable, really – it had to be an old house, within an hour […]
Originally built in 1976 by Newfoundland and Labrador Housing, this bungalow benefitted from a more recent new home program, giving it new doors, windows, roof and insulation. That was all before Wayne, Kathy and their daughter Lauren bought the house two years ago. It wasn’t the house they were originally looking for, but they’ve made […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
More than 100 years ago, Thomas Mouland returned to his home in Bonavista after a harrowing sealing trip during which 84 of his fellow sealers died after spending two nights on the ice without shelter. Sitting on an old wooden chair at the kitchen table, the home’s current owner, Ken Sooley, asks if I’ve read […]
Port Rexton, on the Bonavista Peninsula, is the sort of place that’s easy to drive through. Even at its most populous, the place didn’t have more than 700 people who called it home. These days, less than 400 people live there. It’s often overshadowed by Trinity, about 10 minutes down the road, although the Fishers’ […]
“We knew we wanted a saltbox house,” says Elizabeth Burry, standing in the kitchen of her Trinity summer home. “We both love saltboxes.” She and her husband also like open concept floor plans, and so while the home looks like a saltbox on the outside, it abandons the traditional layout of a central staircase with […]
Shed, a chubby brown squirrel who isn’t a bit shy, sits on the deck railing nibbling on bird seeds. He’s relaxed and happy in this environment and doesn’t seem to want to be anywhere else. Much like the owner and builder of this particular deck, Shed thinks that living here in La Manche, on a […]
