6 Degrees Muskoka

Since last fall, our focus at Skinner Properties has been on the continued massive renovation of the 125 year old gem originally built as the “Queens Hotel”, now home to Six Degrees Muskoka.

Small hotel rooms on the 2nd and 3rd floors have been completely gutted to create vast open spans; 32 tons of plaster, lath and otherwise fire hazards were removed and 4 tons of structural steel surgically inserted in a high-tech engineered process; window openings, bricked over for decades have been made visible again; 54 windows have been replaced throughout, complementing the time periods of the buildings long history.

So, are we done yet? Hmmm, well … you know what? It would be a lot faster, simpler and cheaper to tear the whole thing down and start from scratch, but that’s not what we do.

We believe in respecting the past and honouring it, but also, in giving it a contemporary edge and technological advantage – an adaptive reuse that results in the “WOW” factor that we strive for.