You Know Your Lake Differently
Some places become part of your story. For our family, that place has always been the cottage.
Annually, our family spent our summers by the lake — swimming, boating, exploring the shoreline, and experiencing all of the little traditions that eventually make a place feel like your own.
Years later, those memories are still what make the lake special.
Anyone can look at a lake on a map but when it’s your lake, you recognize it.
You know the bay where the water is usually calm. The island you pass on the way home. The narrow section where everyone slows the boat down. The place where you swim. The shoreline you’ve looked across hundreds of times.
That’s the idea behind Lakefront Designs.
From Lake Memories to Lake Maps
We began creating lake maps because we wanted a simple way to represent places that meant something to us.
A lake outline isn’t just geography when you know the place.
It can represent summers at the cottage, family traditions, weekends with friends, early morning boat rides, evenings on the dock, or memories that have been building for generations.
Today, Lakefront Designs creates lake maps and keepsakes inspired by Ontario’s lakes while also building a growing collection of Lake Profiles that help tell the story of the places behind them.
The Details That Make a Lake Yours
We’ve always been fascinated by the little details of a lake. Whenever we take someone new out on the water, we have a habit of stopping near the deepest part and asking: