A comfy cosy dream home

The property was just a kilometre from the village of Knowlton, in Quebec’s Eastern Town­ships, a five-acre swath of hills and ledges and mature trees, stepping-stone paths and cutting gardens, on the border of an old golf course. The plan was to build an indigenous home similar to the farmhouses they had renovated in the past. Still, owner Kathy Marsh needed to be convinced. “I’m a real country girl,” she says, and she worried about the proximity to Knowlton, a tiny town whose charms attract an influx of tourists on weekends. In the end, she came around, lured by the beauty and the history of the land.