Casolena Lakehouse at a glance
Who sleeps where
- Delfina · main floor, lakesideKing bed
- Cielo · the open loft2 double beds
- Alba · main floor, forest sideQueen bed
- Bosco · main floor, forest sideTwin-over-double bunk
* Sleeps up to 8 for families with children, or up to 6 for groups of friends. It keeps the house comfortable for everyone and the neighborhood peaceful.
The lakehouse
A soulful escape on Lake Huron
Casolena takes its name from Casa del Sole e della Luna, home of the sun and the moon. A family-owned waterfront cottage near Johnston Harbour on the Northern Bruce Peninsula, thirty minutes from Tobermory Village.
Built to hold still moments
Glass, timber and a double lot of quiet
The house rises in glass and timber over 2,300 square feet, with 250 feet of limestone shoreline to itself. The design is open, with lake views from nearly every room. Daylight reaches the beds. Storms roll across the great room's cathedral windows. On clear nights, the sky windows hand you the stars.
Nobody comes here to get things done. Slow breakfasts, shoreline walks, records on the turntable, card games past bedtime.
The pause you need
An hour goes by at “the windows”
The lake and sky windows turn every hour into a scene: turquoise mornings, silver rain, amber dusk. Guests tell us the same thing again and again. The photos don't really capture it.
Open all four seasons
Summer is famous. Winter is a secret.
June through September brings kayaks, lunch by the lake and swims off the rocks. In winter the lake freezes, snow settles in the cedars while the fireplace does its work inside.
The rooms
Four names on four doors
Each bedroom carries a hand-lettered name and meets the landscape in its own way.
Main floor · lakeside
Delfina
the sunset favorite
Windows on three sides fill the room with light all day. The sun sets straight ahead of you. Delfina keeps its own pace too, with windows that open to the lake breeze, portable AC and baseboard heating you control.
Second floor · loft
Cielo
the loft of sky
Cielo is Italian for sky, which is most of what you see up here. You get the sunrise on one side and the sunset on the other, both from bed. Two double beds and a walk-in closet. It is an open loft by design, so there is no privacy door or sound barrier, just the view.
Main floor · forest side
Alba
the quiet queen
Alba is Italian for dawn. Soft sunrise and morning sun reach the bed, which is exactly why the blackout curtains are up. It faces the forest and the lawn, with the second bathroom a few steps away. This is the room for the light sleeper in every group.
Main floor · forest side
Bosco
the forest bunks
A twin over a double bunk looking into the trees, with a desk for homework or one more chapter. Blackout curtains here too, which helps with early risers of the small kind. Kids claim it first. Adults who grew up at camp claim it second.
The gallery
What an ordinary day does
Every photo we show is ours, taken across the seasons here. The gallery is less a portfolio than a record of how the house feels, in different hours, different seasons.