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Everything a writer or editor needs about Casolena on one page: the facts, the story angles, and high-resolution photos cleared for editorial use.
Fact sheet
Casolena Lakehouse, at a glance
- NameCasolena, from the Italian Casa del Sole e della Luna: home of the sun and the moon.
- What it isA four-bedroom, two-bath waterfront cottage rental, 2,300 square feet, sleeping up to 8 guests.
- WhereNear Johnston Harbour on the Northern Bruce Peninsula, Ontario. 25 minutes from Tobermory, 30 from the Grotto.
- The settingA private double lot with 250 feet of limestone Lake Huron shoreline, inside a designated Dark Sky Preserve region.
- The architectureA glass-and-timber design whose signature "lake and sky windows" climb with the roofline; four bedrooms named Delfina, Cielo, Alba and Bosco.
- The hostsHoan and Jenny, who left tech and data careers for the shoreline, with daughter Emmy. Family-owned and personally managed, never outsourced.
- Track recordAirbnb Superhost, rated 5.0, and a Guest Favourite ranked in the top 1% of listings worldwide.
- SeasonsOpen year-round: kayaks and deck dinners in summer, a frozen bay, snowshoe trails and occasional aurora in winter.
- BookingDirect at casolena.ca/book, or via the Airbnb listing.
Story angles
Four ways in
The winter secret
Everyone covers Tobermory in July. Almost nobody covers the frozen coves, empty trails and dark-sky winters, and this house glows in the middle of them.
The aurora photo
The northern lights, with a shooting star, over the cottage sunroom. Shot by the owners from their own driveway. Available below in full resolution.
Trading tech for a shoreline
Two data-career city dwellers bought a glass-walled lakehouse at the edge of the map and now run it as a top-1% stay. A modern back-to-the-land story with spreadsheets.
A house with named rooms
Delfina, Cielo, Alba, Bosco: every bedroom is named, hand-lettered and aimed at a different piece of the landscape. Design writers tend to smile at this one.
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High-resolution photos
Free for editorial use with the credit "Casolena Lakehouse". For commercial licensing, get in touch.
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Almost every image was shot by us, mostly by Jenny, across the seasons we live here. If you need a specific angle, season or room, ask; chances are we have it.