CALL IT A real estate light bulb moment. When Peter Mogl-Maclean and Paula Washington began looking for land on which to build a cottage in Nova Scotia in 2020, Peter realized many otherwise prime coastline views were blocked by hills or trees. “I said to Paula, ‘There’s a lot of undervalued real estate if we recognize that our first floor should be 30 feet in the air,’ ” he says, with a laugh.
The joke soon evolved into an exploration of, “What if?” After a year-long search, the
