Two-Generation House in Coulée Douce by La Nony FAMILI
Two-Generation House in Coulée Douce stands in the forests of Sutton, Canada, where La Nony FAMILI shapes a multi-generational house around pond views and quiet comfort. The elongated volume settles into the sloping site, giving each generation privacy while keeping daily life centered on shared rooms and a material palette tuned to light, texture, and calm.
Tree trunks frame the long house as it steps down the slope, their shadows sliding across pale walls and deep window reveals through the day. Inside, micro-cement volumes, warm wood, and soft textiles pull forest light toward the pond-facing rooms, drawing attention to the way people sit, gather, and rest.
This is a multi-generational house in Sutton, Canada, designed by La Nony FAMILI with Le Local Design around daily rituals and shared rooms rather than formal gestures. The project organizes family life along an elongated plan that tracks the slope and pond, while an interior palette of mineral surfaces, timber ceilings, and woven fibers shapes mood and comfort. Every decision orbits one question: how the occupants want to feel at home.
From early conversations to rapid replanning during construction, the collaboration focuses on human scale, durability, and an atmosphere that balances privacy with connection across generations. With a compact, efficient volume, the house keeps a low profile in the forest, while interior rooms extend outward through broad openings that hold the pond in view and bring filtered light deep inside.
Shaping A Shared Core
The main entrance leads directly into a generous living area, where a sunken or built-in living room sets the tone for shared days and evenings. Micro-cement wraps integrated seating and storage, giving the central volume a sculptural presence that still reads as robust and practical. Around the fireplace, bodies cluster on continuous benches rather than isolated furniture, reinforcing the room as a communal core. Large openings toward the pond keep conversations anchored to the changing light and water.
Micro-Cement As Daily Ground
The mineral envelope of micro-cement, used in the living room and primary bedroom, borrows from Mediterranean and Mexican precedents rare in Quebec houses. Underfoot and at the touch of a hand, the material feels continuous and quiet, muting visual noise while catching light along soft edges. Built-in elements reduce the need for extra furniture, which keeps circulation clear and reinforces the sense of a tailored, continuous room. That raw, even tone allows textiles, wood, and foliage outside the glass to register more distinctly.
Kitchen Volume And Rhythm
Set slightly back from the main living area, the kitchen occupies a more intimate pocket, buffered by a volume that holds the mudroom and pantry. This intermediary block turns circulation into a loop, so daily movement between outside, storage, and cooking falls into an easy rhythm. A substantial custom wooden unit runs through the living zone, acting as both threshold and anchor without reading as a barrier. Grain, proportion, and repetition in this piece add quiet dynamism to the common rooms.
Atmosphere Through Light And Tactility
Interior surfaces stay in light, neutral tones to catch the filtered forest light and let shadows from leaves move across walls through the day. Cotton, linen, rattan, artisan tiles, and extensive woodwork in furniture and ceilings build a layered tactility that rewards slow looking and touch. Acoustic treatment and finely tuned lighting shape how each room feels at different hours, softening background noise and glare so conversation and rest come more easily. Rounded forms and arches in openings, cabinetry, and lighting fixtures smooth thresholds, turning movement through the house into a gentle, almost continuous drift.
At every turn, the project ties emotional intent to specific material and spatial decisions, rather than treating mood as an afterthought. Local artisans and professionals from the Sutton region carry that ambition into joinery, finishes, and custom pieces, anchoring the interior palette in the skills of nearby makers. As daylight fades over the pond and the micro-cement hearth glows, the house reads as a quiet cocoon in the trees, built for daily rituals shared across generations.
Photography by Ulysse Lermerise
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