01 — THE BRIEF

A summer cottage that had to
become a forever home.

The family had spent twenty summers on this stretch of Lake Rosseau. The cottage that stood here wasn’t built for winter — or for the next twenty years. They asked us for a home that could hold three generations at Thanksgiving and still feel quiet in February.

The answer was a raw rebuild: a timber-and-stone lakehouse shaped to the shoreline, framed to carry Muskoka snow loads, and finished by hand — one dedicated crew, a weekly update every Friday, and a clean site every single day of those eighteen months.

02 — THE TRANSFORMATION

Drag the line.

The Rosseau Lakehouse during framing — raw timber structure BEFORE
The finished Rosseau Lakehouse at dusk AFTER

FRAMING STAGE → COMPLETION

03 — THE BUILD

Drawings to keys, by hand.

Construction drawings being marked up by hand
01 · THE DRAWINGSEvery selection fixed on paper before a shovel touched the site — a fixed-price proposal, no surprises.
An Ironhall carpenter working dimensional lumber on site
02 · THE FRAMEHeavy timber cut and fitted on site, framed to carry a Muskoka winter for the next hundred years.
The finished warm interior — leather, timber, and gallery wall
03 · THE FINISHHand-finished millwork and warm materials — the part you touch every day is the part we obsess over.

04 — THE DETAILS

On paper.

TYPECustom home
SCOPEDesign-build · timber & stone
TIMELINE18 months
LOCATIONLake Rosseau, Muskoka

“Ironhall built our lakehouse over eighteen months and communicated every single week. The craftsmanship is extraordinary.”

Your build could be next.

Tell us what you’re planning. We’ll walk the site and give you an honest answer.

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