South Mary Lake Contracting (SML) — Custom Home and Cottage Builder in Huntsville, ON
South Mary Lake Contracting — trading as SML Contracting from a yard at 365 Highway 60 in Huntsville, Ontario — has been designing and building waterfront homes and four-season cottages in North Muskoka since 1998. Owner-led since day one, the firm frames itself as a design-build shop that will carry a client from preliminary sketches through to keys in hand, which is a different animal than the more common “general contractor who hires an architect” model found elsewhere in the region.
Services
- Custom home construction — new-build residential projects with architectural and building design in-house, not subcontracted out.
- Custom cottages and waterfront builds — South Mary Lake, Peninsula Lake, Lake of Bays and the smaller Muskoka chains are their bread and butter.
- Home additions and extensions — dormers, second-storey adds, rear extensions tied back into existing foundations.
- Cottage renovations — kitchen and bath-led refreshes inside older Muskoka family properties where the bones are worth keeping.
Service Area
Huntsville anchors the operation, with regular work across the Township of Lake of Bays, Muskoka Lakes, Algonquin Highlands, and the Highway 60 corridor east toward Dwight. Over 25 years and 175+ completed projects, SML has become one of the more recognisable names on the North Muskoka waterfront.
Why it is on home.renovation.reviews
We keep a short list of design-build shops that handle the full front-to-back of a custom Muskoka cottage project, and SML made the cut because they are transparent about project counts, have long-standing supplier relationships, and consistently turn up as the general contractor of record on Houzz and BBB listings rather than as a loose brand over a rotating crew.
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