Putting a few modern touches on a 175-year-old house in Laval

A noisy neighbourhood was not the only reason Jacynthe Pelletier and her husband, Jean Dorval, sold their former house in the West Island in 2005, but it was a close second after finding a home closer to Dorval’s Montreal-East place of work.The Laval home they found in 2004 met both those needs. Situated on 12,500 square metres of land, with the Rivière des Mille-Îles as a backdrop, they found their peace and quiet bundled with a shorter commute. But in addition to convenience