With cabanes à sucre aka sugar shacks closed in Quebec red zones this season due to COVID-19, you may find yourself missing that classic Quebec aesthetic — from the log exterior to the exposed wood beams to the cafeteria-style seating.
What if you could buy a property like that near Montreal... but nicer and bigger? What if you could live in your very own sugar shack? Or, rather, sugar mansion.
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This 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom home in Piedmont, Quebec is less than an hour from Montreal and it's for sale.
Engel & Völkers Montréal Rive-Nord
It has all the markings of a cabane à sucre — even those red window frames — but a higher-end version renovated in 2011.
Engel & Völkers Montréal Rive-Nord
There's wood everywhere — the ground-floor floors
are terracotta and the first-floor floors are Brazilian Cumaru hardwood.
Engel & Völkers Montréal Rive-Nord
And the kitchen is even large enough for a few really long tables with red-and-white checkered table cloths.
Engel & Völkers Montréal Rive-Nord
But it also boasts things you won't find in a sugar shack, such as an en-suite bathroom with a spillover bath, a two-person shower and a jacuzzi spa.
Engel & Völkers Montréal Rive-Nord
The best of both worlds!
Sugar Mansion
Price: $689,000
Address: 757, rue Principale, Piedmont, Québec
Description: A single-family home meets cabane à sucre less than an hour away from Montreal.
Engel & Völkers Montréal Rive-Nord
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