Country Homes & Interiors

LAKESIDE RETREAT

Lynne and John Raimondi didn’t have far to go to find their dream plot. Three minutes from their previous family home, a plot came up for sale that was too tempting to resist. ‘We had spent five years building our old home, but this was a much bigger plot with more privacy, positioned in a bay of the lake,’ says Lynne. Lake Simcoe provides much of the focus of family life and the couple were able

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