The film · 3 min 10 sec

The Collingview video: from the air, and from the roof.

Three minutes and ten seconds, filmed at the property across a single late-summer day and evening. There is no narration — the audio is music only, so nothing is lost with the sound off. Every room below is in it.

What you are looking at

Moment by moment.

0:00: The rooftop terrace at duskChairs, the fire bowl lit, the escarpment ridge across the horizon, and a band of Georgian Bay above the trees to the left.
0:18: The house from the airThe whole building, the rooftop terrace and hot tub from above, the drive and the pond.
0:36: The groundsThe pond, the open field around the house, the deck, and the walk up to the front doors.
0:48: The great room and the kitchenTwo storeys of glass and board-formed concrete, the long stone island, the dining table, the gas range, and the fires.
1:36: Bedrooms and bathroomsBeds under plank timber ceilings, tiled bathrooms, and the dressing room with its rolling ladder.
2:06: Laundry and the second kitchenetteThe unglamorous part, which is what decides whether ten people can live here for a week.
2:16: The upstairs sitting roomThe second lounge away from the main floor, the freestanding tub, and the round window at the top of the house.
2:36: Outside as the light goesThe hammock on the lawn, a telescope on the roof, and the last of the sun over the field.
2:56: NightThe fire bowl, the hot tub lit, and the house from across the pond with the lights on.

The escarpment you can see along the horizon in the opening shots is the same landform the ski hills of this region are cut into. What looks like a distant line of low hills is the Niagara Escarpment running north toward Georgian Bay, and the pale band above the trees on the left is the bay itself.

This is The Collingview video in full — a luxury cottage video tour of the house, the rooftop terrace and the land, shot from the air and from the roof. If you have watched a lot of vacation rental video tours, this one is shorter and has no music telling you how to feel about it. If you would rather read than watch, the same ground is covered room by room on the house page.

How it was made

One day, one house, no script.

The whole film comes from a single visit in late summer, starting on the roof in the afternoon and finishing there after dark. The aerial sequences are of this building on its own land; the interiors are the rooms as they were on the day, with nothing brought in and nothing carried out to improve a shot.

There is no voiceover and no presenter, which was a decision rather than a budget. A narrated property film tells you how to feel about a room before you have looked at it, and the rooms here are better at that than a script would be. The music is there so the silence is not distracting; turn it off and you lose nothing.

The cut deliberately leaves out the approach from the road. The house sits at the end of a private drive and its street address is not published anywhere on this site, so the sequence that would have identified it is not in the film.

If you would rather not watch it

The film, written down.

The moment-by-moment list above is a full text alternative, not a teaser for the video. It exists because a three-minute film is a bad way to give somebody information if they are on a slow connection, on a train, at work, using a screen reader, or simply not in the mood to watch anything. Everything the film shows is described there in the order it appears.

The same ground is covered differently elsewhere: room by room in prose on the house page, and in seventy-two photographs in the gallery, where you can filter to the part of the house you actually care about instead of waiting for it to come round in an edit.

Questions about the film

How long is the film, and does it have sound?

Three minutes and ten seconds. There is no narration and nobody talks over it — the audio is music only, so nothing is lost if you watch it muted, which most people do. The moment-by-moment list on this page covers everything on screen for anyone who would rather read it than watch it.

Is the film of the actual property?

Yes, all of it, and it was filmed on the same late-summer day as the photographs. Nothing in it is stock footage, drone footage of somewhere else, or a computer-generated walkthrough. The aerial shots are of this house, on its own land, from directly above it.

Does the film show the address or the way in?

No. The house is on a private drive and the location is deliberately not published, so the cut leaves out the approach from the road and anything that identifies the street. That is why the film opens on the roof rather than at the gate.

Does the video autoplay or use my data before I press play?

No. Nothing of the film downloads until you press play — the page loads a single still image as the poster and stops there. That is deliberate: the file is large, and a thirty-seven megabyte autoplay on a phone on mobile data is a rude thing to do to somebody who only wanted to read about a house.

Why is there no winter footage?

Because there is no winter footage. Everything we hold was filmed across one day in late summer, and cutting a summer aerial into a sequence about skiing would be dishonest in the way that matters most — it would sell a season we cannot show you. When there is a winter cut it will go on this page and be labelled as such.

Can I see something the film does not cover?

Ask, and we will film it or photograph it. For a booking of this size that is a reasonable request and a faster answer than another edit of the whole house.

Come and see it properly.

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