Katja and Adam Thom’s cabin, on an exposed postglacial archipelago in Canada’s windswept Georgian Bay, is more than eight miles from the nearest road. The building, quite literally off-the-grid and far from inland neighbors on a long and slender granite outcrop, is only accessible by boat. The house is powered only by solar panels; it uses a graywater system, attached to the home’s only sink; and there is a composting toilet. Almost all of the wood they used was reclaimed from old Ontario barns, meaning many of the joists and floorboards are several hundred years old.
Photo by Mark Giglio.
