More and more people are moving to the north to get away from the busy city life. As realtors living in the Kawartha Lakes region, we work with clients regularly who desire the same lifestyle. If de-stressing and moving into a quieter area is on your mind, call us to help you find the perfect lake front home. We love this lifestyle!
Article Summary:
• Today, 13 years later, the four-season cottage and its property — Shady Pines — are her oasis, giving Halstead the necessary “quiet time to unplug and refuel in order to have something to give again.The rambling Pan-Abode-style log cottage lies nestled in six acres of woods on a picture-postcard winter day.
• The boards were salvaged from the barn of one of her friends in the area, north of Orangeville.While the rambling five-bedroom cottage has a dedicated yoga studio — with two expansive walls of windows overlooking the woods — Halstead takes her meditation wherever she is, whether that’s doing yoga or “moving big piles of wood from one place to another.
• *THE NUMBERS4,395: Bark-covered branches lining the dining room.14: Days to clear the previous owners’ clutter.5: Truckloads of clutter hauled to the dump.4: Activities done in the yoga room: dancing, yoga, weights, New Year’s Eve get-together.50 or 60: Years of age of Sweet Potato, the snapping turtle in Halstead’s pond.5:30: Time each summer afternoon a kingfisher circles the pond to hunt.
A log cabin north of Orangeville helps de-stress a Toronto artist By a pond in a six-acre forest, a rambling retreat is where Beth Halstead unplugs and re-energizes. Artist Beth Halstead strolls with her dogs, from left, her two Australian shepherds Bear and Lobo, and border collie Tinker. ( Darlene Duncan ) THEN: The large sunroom features an assortment of dishes, furniture and macrame plant-hangers left behind when Beth Halstead first took possession of the cottage. ( Darlene Duncan ) Beth Halstead took bark-covered saplings and painstakingly nailed them to the walls of her dining room, creating a cosy, rustic...
More and more people are moving to the north to get away from the busy city life. As realtors living in the Kawartha Lakes region, we work with clients regularly who desire the same lifestyle. If de-stressing and moving into a quieter area is on your mind, call us to help you find the perfect lake front home. We love this lifestyle!
Article Summary:
• Today, 13 years later, the four-season cottage and its property — Shady Pines — are her oasis, giving Halstead the necessary “quiet time to unplug and refuel in order to have something to give again.The rambling Pan-Abode-style log cottage lies nestled in six acres of woods on a picture-postcard winter day.
• The boards were salvaged from the barn of one of her friends in the area, north of Orangeville.While the rambling five-bedroom cottage has a dedicated yoga studio — with two expansive walls of windows overlooking the woods — Halstead takes her meditation wherever she is, whether that’s doing yoga or “moving big piles of wood from one place to another.
• *THE NUMBERS4,395: Bark-covered branches lining the dining room.14: Days to clear the previous owners’ clutter.5: Truckloads of clutter hauled to the dump.4: Activities done in the yoga room: dancing, yoga, weights, New Year’s Eve get-together.50 or 60: Years of age of Sweet Potato, the snapping turtle in Halstead’s pond.5:30: Time each summer afternoon a kingfisher circles the pond to hunt.