‘Rough-lux’ might be the perfect descriptor for the former off-grid organic farm that Anwar Mekhayech and wife, Glenna Weddle, converted into a modern retreat on five acres in the Bruce Peninsula
When you enter the main cabin you see a lot of wood: the log and wattle walls are exposed on the interior and exterior and the ceiling is clad in barn board, with two triangles of white drywall offering contrast on the gables.When one word won’t do to define a fusion of international interior design expertise with log cabin construction in rural Meaford, Ont., sometimes you need a compound word. Perhaps “rough-lux.
The couple bought the farm in 2021, drawn by the promise of the log cabin. “It was pretty incredible,” said Mr. Mekhayech. “It was one big open room, all open concept with a vaulted ceiling. We saw this untapped potential to it. The shell was there and it was easy to clean it out to start from scratch.”
Then there’s the “rough” in rough-lux. Hand-hewn logs squared off and fitted together with dovetails form the box of the original house; irregular limestone flagstones quarried in nearby Wiarton cover the floors in that wing as well as the fieldstone heat shield around the wood-burning oven from Elmira Stove Works.
Mr. Mekhayech said he doesn’t tend to mix work and home life, but there are things in this country retreat he’s taking as inspiration for an upcoming seaside hotel project in Portugal. “I think we really liked the remoteness and calmness of it …” said Mr. Mekhayech, who grew up in downtown Toronto but whose family would come north to visit friends in Caledon and places like Mono when he was a child, riding dirt-bikes and pursuing other rural Ontario past-times: “We were always up on the Bruce Trail around Georgian Bay,” he said. Lake life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, he said. “It’s quite difficult to find privacy on a lake, when you go to Muskoka.
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