Tremblant, Mount Tremblant, Québec

Photography by Phil Bernard Photographe

This six-bedroom country house features a master-suite wing and another, with built-in double bunkbeds, for kids and grandkids. In addition to the de rigueur three-seasons room with a wall that opens to the great outdoors, the gym, sauna and wall covered in trailbikes, there is a clandestine retreat for the adults: a cozy secret bar concealed behind an ordinary-looking closet door, with winter landscape photo murals and a British pub closing-time bell. Notable custom features include pendant lighting on curlicue stems springing from the hollows between the paired white wooden rafters supporting the great room’s cathedral ceiling. The main stairway boasts a half-inch-thick white-painted solid metal-plate balustrade that rises 36 inches from the floor, then curves 90 degrees to form a flat, four-inch-wide handrail. And, as a foil to the prevailing Modernist style, the great-room’s fireplace surround and other feature walls inside and out are made of a rustic-looking stone mixture resembling honey-nougat (the white mortar) candy with almonds and pistachios (ashlar sticks in random sizes and shapes).