Rental of the Week: $12,000 a month for a Grey County sanctuary that’s half bungalow, half loft

Location: Ravenna, Grey County Price: $12,000 a month to rent or $3,799,000 to purchase Size: 2,335 square feet plus a 1,294-square-foot basement and a 480-square-foot bunkie

Bedrooms: 3+2 Bathrooms: 4 Real estate agents: Sean Landreth, Seasonal Properties; Mike Kearns, The Kearns Group

The Place

A three-plus-two-bedroom, four-bathroom rental in Ravenna, a stunning hamlet in Grey County marked by dense forests and serene waterfalls. The property comes with tons of nature, including two kilometres of private trails and a swimming pond with a dock. Guests are a 20-minute drive from Blue Mountain and 30 minutes from downtown Collingwood.

The History

The current owners bought this property in 2020, gutted the original structure and got to renovating, finishing their project in 2022. After using it as a vacation property for a few years, they’re now renting it out—but they’re also open to selling it at a price of $3.8 million.

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The Tour

First, here’s the foyer, with a double-door coat closet.

A secondary entrance leads to this mudroom, which comes with a fluted-wood feature wall.

The mudroom also doubles as a reading nook.

Now for the open kitchen, living and dining space. The floors here and throughout are vinyl plank.

In the kitchen: stainless steel appliances, a waterfall island and quartz counters.

An entire wall of windows illuminates the main room. There are walk-out doors all along this side of the property (more on the outdoor features later.)

And here’s the dining area, crowned by shiplap ceilings and designer lights.

This is the living area, with a gas fireplace and another dramatic feature wall.

The main floor has two bedrooms and three bathrooms. Here’s the main suite, overlooking the forest.

It has a barn-door walk-through closet that connects to the ensuite bathroom.

Here’s that ensuite.

And here’s a peek inside of the secondary corner bedrooms.

That secondary bedroom has an ensuite that’s almost identical to the main one.

Heading upstairs highlights the loft, perhaps the home’s most charming feature. It’s currently set up as a guest room–play space hybrid.

Original beams remind residents of the spot’s rustic roots.

Moving to the basement reveals this theatre room.

There are two more bedrooms down here. This one has transom windows.

This is the basement bathroom.

There’s more fun outside, like this two-bedroom, one-bathroom bunkie for guests.

The bunkie doesn’t have a kitchen, but it does come with a sink and some storage.

Here’s one of the bunkie bedrooms.

And here’s the bathroom.

Note the jumbo gable window soaring over the huge deck.

In the summer, guests mostly use the pond for swimming and paddle-boarding. In the colder months, it’s converted into a skating rink.

There’s also an adventure playground out here.

Finally, here’s an aerial view, which shows various private trails through the woods (if you squint).

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