The Globe and Mail

While the paint on the mullions is shedding and the roof shingles are, as owner Susan Shaughnessy describes them, rather "ugly," there's no need to apologize. "In a few weeks, it'll look much better," she says for the third time. Regardless of the fact that painters and roofers need to work on the dwelling in Beaconsfield, Que., it's clear the residence -- one of 11 "Trend Houses" built across Canada by a consortium of British Columbia lumber manufacturers in the early 1950s -- is in good hands. Eric Boulva and Susan Shaughnessy weren't looking for a Trend House; in fact, they weren't looking for anything at all eight years ago when Mr. Boulva cycled by and saw the à vendre sign in front of the two-storey, four-bedroom home. Although content in a much larger house in the same area, the seven-member family felt compelled to move because of the Trend House's fantastic location across the road from Lac St. Louis.