A whole-property reunion, on the lake.

Everyone in one place, for once.

Sleeps up to eighteen across the two houses. Grandparents in the master, parents in the cottage, six kids in the bunk room with reading lights and curtains. One kitchen big enough to cook for everyone, one beach gradual enough for the four-year-olds, one weekend with everyone in one place. Three nights minimum.

Multi-generational reunions are their own thing. Toddlers nap at one. Teenagers eat at midnight. Grandparents want a chair in the shade by three. The estate is laid out so everyone can find their own pace without anyone having to drive somewhere — the cottage gives a second kitchen and a second front door for when the babies go down early, the games room absorbs the cousins when it rains, and the deck holds twenty for the one meal a day everyone shows up to. We've hosted enough of these to know the shape.

Two houses, sixty feet apart.

Six bedrooms in the Lakeside House plus two in the cottage. The cottage has its own kitchen, its own deck, and a door that closes — useful when the toddlers go down at seven and the cousins want to keep talking.

If your family is bigger than eighteen, we work with a neighbour ten minutes up the lake who can take another twelve to fifteen.

• Six bedrooms in the main house, two in the cottage.
• Great room, games room, deck — three places to be loud at once.
• Kitchen with two ovens and a Lacanche induction range.
• Dining for twenty on the deck in summer.

Three things we say out loud on Friday.

We tell every family on arrival. Better said now than learned the hard way.

• The dock is unfenced. Bring life jackets for kids under five — we have a few, but bring your own if you'd like a guarantee.
• The sandy entry is easy for new swimmers, but it gets deep quickly past the swim float. An adult should be on dock duty.
• The sauna is locked from the outside; only adults have the key.