A Modern Four-Bedroom Home on the Riverbank
$3.77 MILLION ($4.795 CANADIAN DOLLARS)
Set on the banks of the Rideau River, this custom-built four-bedroom home is in Manotick, a village about 15 miles south of Ottawa, Canada’s capital city. The 3.4-acre property includes 264 feet of water frontage, with two boat slips. “It’s rare to acquire a property on the river with this much waterfront,” said Marilyn Wilson of Dream Properties, the listing broker. “And having two boat slips is unusual. You wouldn’t be able to get them now because of conservation rules.”
Built in 1985 for the family of a local construction executive, the 6,105-square-foot house is anchored by a soaring, octagonal great room whose domed 20-foot ceiling, in honey-toned British Columbia fir, tapers into a skylight. “The stacked, repeated design of the ceiling evokes Art Deco, but the materials make it very warm for a contemporary home,” Ms. Wilson