Northern Home & Cottage June/July 2015

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For the way you live Up North

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Volume 20 • Number 3

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For the way you live Up North

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features 12 Dri˜ wood ˜ e timeless shades of weather-aged wood inspired this Lake Michigan home.

24 Modest by Design A cottage on Little Traverse Lake is a lesson in how living large can happen with a little less.

34 A Long Lake Classic Replacing a cottage that had been in the family since the 1930s took thoughtful design and careful craftsmanship.

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Editor’s Note Site Sensitive

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Northern Style Summer’s Neutrals

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44 Filling the Doc’s Footprint A beautiful new home on Bear Lake grows up where the old village doctor lived since the 1950s.

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For obvious reasons, our annual waterfront issue is a delight to work on. Just looking at the photos of lakeside terraces, screened in porches,

and sunlight-filled rooms with watery views gives me a shot of vicarious summe that leaves me beaming. While I have written accolades over the years about the homes that appear in our June issue, I want to especially call out this year’s selection for their sensitivity to their sites. Without exception, each of the homeowners we worked with on this issue have told us that they carefully considered how to get the most form and function out of their homes with the least amount of space.

The reasons are what you might assume. These homeowners don’t want to waste precious summer days keeping up a too large home any more than they want their homes to appear as ostentatious statements on the shoreline.

Each home in this issue represents a different aesthetic, but they are al pleasingly efficient designs executed with an eye to the local historic vernacular a set carefully in regard to natural vegetation and a low-profile view of them from th water. To that, I say, Thank you!

And of course, the all-important: each home makes me want to pour (or be poured!) a glass of chardonnay and settle into the waterfront view.

On another happy note, make sure to check our new Northern Style layout on page 8. It’s a product of the vision and energy of our new art director Heather Gray—a woman who lives and loves good design and fine décor. Heather’ enthusiasm for this publication is splashed all over these pages.

Here’s to hoping you get as many ideas and as much enjoyment out of this issue as we did putting it together. And here is to a fabulous Northern Michigan summer wherever you are spending it!

Elizabeth Edwards is managing editor of Northern Home & Cottage.

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On a blue sky, blue water day near the end of last summer, three boys played together on the Lake Michigan beach in front of a lovely summer home. The scene from inside the home, through windows framed by white mullions, felt very much like a painting—William Merritt Chase’s 19th-century seaside works that capture the sublime coastal light, perhaps.

Except of course, instead of starched period garb, these boys wore the bright neons of contemporary kids.

No doubt, the family who lives here is modern to the core, burdened with all of the crazy busyness that accompanies modern life—careers, school, extra-curricular activities. But when the family arrives at this home on this slice of Sleeping Bear Bay, the bustle calms, thanks to the serene shore-side setting and a home perfectly suited to that setting.

By the time the homeowners built their summer home, they knew the area well. They’dfirst visited the Sleeping Bear area on a tour of the Lake Michigan coast early in their marriage. “We knew right away, this was where we wanted to summer,” the homeowner says. When the opportunity arose, they bought a small house in the woods on the edge of Glen Arbor. They were so excited about moving in, the homeowner remembers, that they showed up at their new house, car and U-Haul loaded to the hilt, before the former owners had completely vacated.

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The family had many, many happy summers in that house. And then one day they noticed a for sale sign on an older beach house down the road. It was their chance to live not just near the beach, but to live on it. They purchased the property and made plans to take down the old home and rebuild.

When she first began picturing what their new summer home would look like, the homeowner says she kept imagining driftwood—the soft silvery tones, the way it looks like it has been set on the beach

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forever. She pored through home magazines looking for photos of homes with that feeling and eventually decided the old summer homes of Nantucket, with their historic architectural sensibilities and earthy coastal palettes, best described what she was looking for.

Architect Suzannah Tobin gave shape to the homeowners’ ideas, designing a home nestled in a grove of pine trees, a bit back from the beach. “Zoning would have allowed them to build closer to the water, but the unwritten rule [of designing beach houses] is that you don’t go past the tree line. It ruins the whole shoreline,” she says.

The two-gabled home measures 2,100 square feet, is long and narrow, and is situated to make the most of the lake breezes. Banks of four-paned divided light casement windows open to those breezes while giving a nod to a crisp, cottage style. Pulling on her own childhood growing up on Lake Michigan’s nearby West Grand Traverse Bay, where she recalls the heat of the sinking sun, Tobin added a deep, covered wraparound porch. Clad in cedar shake, the home indeed evokes the feeling of a 19th-century coastal home.

Tobin is particularly pleased with another nostalgic touch—keeping the garage separate from the house. “One of the best parts of arriving Up North is getting out of the car and smelling trees and instantly hearing the water. Even in the winter you can get out at night and look up at the stars,” she says. “Everything looks less suburban when the garage is not stuck on to the house,” Tobin adds. “But people usually don’t realize it until it is too late.”

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The homeowner credits builders Randy and Nadine Weirich of Heart Homes for turning the construction process into a labor of love. “They were so easy to work with,” she says. “They really cared. I’ve never seen a building site that was so clean in my entire life.”

It was the kind of creative, flawless collaboration that builds friendships. “They are the most wonderful people,” Nadine says of the homeowners.

Finished now, the home has become the family’s haven from a busy world. They swim, fish, beachcomb … but often they just relax on the covered porch and take in the crescent sweep of the shoreline and where it ends at Sleeping Bear and Pyramid Points. Straight ahead, North and South Manitou islands float on the horizon. Freighters pass by. Deer amble down to the lake for a drink. It is as peaceful, beautiful and timeless as, well, driftwood comes to mind.

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In lieu of columns to hold up the deck roof, the Siegels opted for the clean, honest statement made by steel posts bolted to concrete cookies.

The vacation staging area will be the cottage that the Siegels designed and built several years ago along the shores of the 640-acre lake in Leelanau County, not far from Lake Michigan. And that is a treat in itself. Life at the cottage is simple, serene and relaxing—qualities that belie the precise thought, design and green construction that went into it.

The Siegels, who live most of the year in Ada, near Grand Rapids, purchased the wooded three-acre lot in 2000. Over the next seven years they trekked north whenever possible, sometimes camping on their property, while they decided what sort of home they should build. Back then the property was marked only by birch trees, a two-track that the couple believes was once a logging trail, and a clear, swift-flowin creek where watercress grows.

Scott, whose background is in industrial design (Jane teaches at Valparaiso University Law School), was particularly vested LOREM IPSUM in the visioning. “Scott did a tremendous amount of work himDOLOR self … thereSIT was AMET, a lot of thought and love that went into this,” CONSECTETUER Jane says. The couple knew they wanted a low-maintenance, green-built home with a modest footprint—one that would be ADIPISCING ELIT, in scale with the older cottages that ring Little Traverse Lake.

SED DIAM NONWorking with architect and friend Mike Corby of Grand UMMY NIBH Rapids, the couple finally broke ground in 2007 on the home EUISMOD TINCIDthat fuses a Michigan-cottage aesthetic with hints of an UNT UT LAOREET industrial vibe: think cedar shake siding, post-and-beam DOLORE MAGNA structure, and knotty-pine walls with a metal roof, some ALIQUAM ERAT exposed duct work and a minimalist clean-lined hearth. With sprayed insulation in the walls and 8” SIPs (structurally VOLUTPAT. UTfoam WISI

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Thefour-bedroom, three-bathroom home sleeps 12 to 14, yet it measures just under 2,000 square feet. “We did make it small, but it lives large,” Jane says. The plan revolves around two separate structures joined by a dogtrot—the southern term for a breezeway. Thedogtrot connects the guest quarters with the rest of the home while creating an expansive feeling and framing the view of that birch-lined shore.

No-fuss, relaxed cottage décor was important to the couple.

While they bought some new furniture, they also found “true cottage-like” treasures at flea markets and garage sales and installed practical amenities, such as a drain-board sink in their kitchen.

Scott and Jane come north as often as they can, and when possible, their two grown sons join them from their respective homes in Chicago and Portland, Oregon. Even when friends join them, the cottage never feels crowded. And given the structure’s minimal interference with its wooded setting, the site is peaceful and relaxing. “Unfortunately people think you need to build big to accommodate your family,” Jane says.

“But to build a summer place that fits the bill but is not huge … it feels good."

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By the 1950s, members of the woman’s extended family had purchased an adjacent property to create a small family compound.

Eventually, the original cottage, quaint and memory-ÿ lled as it was, fell short on capacity for the growing family and guests. ˛ e place had become the single gathering point for family now scattered across the country, and as such, clearly needed an expansion and update—or, as it turned out, a fresh start from an architect with respect for the rich traditions of the property.

The family discovered architect Robert Ben Begley after spotting one of his recent projects while cruising Long Lake. ˛ e new home stood out to them for its strong historic lines that blended well with the lake’s older architecture. ˛ ey contacted Begley,

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ATOP THE OLD BATHHOUSE, THE VIEW ACROSS LONG LAKE CAN’T BE BEAT. AFTER THE HOUSE WAS FINISHED, THE HOMEOWNERS INVITED FERRARO’S CREW BACK TO SPIFF UP THE OLD BUILDING TO MATCH. Northern Home & Cottage

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Begley made the most of the pieshaped lot by positioning the house and detached garage in such a way that all rooms except one bathroom have a lake view. A window-lined kitchen and a three-season porch on the lakeside ˜ ank the main ˜ oor living area, with its full masonry ÿ replace.

Upstairs, the bedrooms and bathrooms are small by design to contribute to the vintage mood and to create privacy for many guests. A hallway, narrow by today’s standards, shows o˛ exceptional attention to detail in the millwork design and craftsmanship. ˝ ese aspects contribute to the home’s feeling of age and solidity, Begley explains.

To pull o˛ the old-fashioned design, general contractor Mike Ferraro and his crew at Ferraro Builders built and ÿ nished the cottage with care, down to the last detail. “I made sure that all subcontractors understood and embraced the historical accuracy and timelessness of this project,” says Ferraro. “˝ at communication was very important to turning the design into reality.”

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As it was in the old cottage, outdoor living is a natural extension of the new home with its extensive ipe decking and outdoor shower. ˜ e original bathhouse has been spruced up, too, with a viewing deck—the perfect perch for the family to gather for their cherished tradition of evening cocktails.

Today’s family matriarch, a niece of the original owner, spends all summer on Long Lake in her own little wing o° the main-˛ oor living space. Her memories of 12-hour hikes circumnavigating Long Lake’s shore and lively family dinners crammed into a tiny kitchen are as alive as the scenarios happening today with her grandchildren. When the cottage eventually hosts a ÿ fth generation, the family will always have their place to gather, to tell the stories and sense the spirit of their great-greatgreat aunt who was wise enough to buy a tiny cottage on Long Lake in 1937.

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In the case of the Bear Lake cottage, the upshot of the careful design process is a home that finesses light and space at every angle, while answering all of the lifestyle needs the couple asked for. A generous covered terrace off the great room adds valuable living space, for example, while a cupola that rises above the same room bathes it in a bounty of light from above—light that bounces off walls faced with white clapboard hung horizontally to amplify a spacious feeling.

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bedrooms, as well as a cozy den that is just big enough for a game table and television.

In an understated but insightful move, Jeff designed in a pocket door on the bedroom hallway—ensuring quiet for early-to-bed or late-to-rise sleepers.

The small, effic nt and beautifully appointed kitchen conceals a pantry that is roomy enough for storage, prep and housing kitchen appliances. The mud/laundry room (always one of the most important spaces in a lake home) threads between the master wing and the dining area. This über-efficien room opens out to the yard and beach and also provides access to a fully finished basement where outdoor toys and furniture are stored.

This precisely designed living space is enclosed in a lovely, gracefully detailed shingle-style exterior. It’s the kind of timeless cottage style that could have been built yesterday—or a hundred years ago. The home will age well. The doctor would be pleased.

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J. Visser, Grand Rapids, 616.954.2509, jvisser.com

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Michael Corby AIA, Integrated Architects, Grand Rapids, 616.574.0220, intarch.com.

Alpers Excavation, Traverse City, 231.943.4710, alpersexcavating.com

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Flowers Construction, Traverse City, 231.633.5166.

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Old Mission Windows, 231.947.2120, oldmissionwindows.com GARAGE DOORS

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Since 1927

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