Northern Home & Cottage, Oct/Nov 2022

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Move over HGTv s T ars Joanna Gaines, Nicole Curtis, Jonathon and Drew Scott … We have Erin Lutke, marketing director for MyNorth Media and star of our Northern Home & Cottage Virtual Home Tours. In the three years since we’ve filmed these tours, Erin has been in and out of more than 20 homes, a film crew following her as she narrates her way from room to room. Erin was made for the camera: She can chat away naturally and intelligently—without a script—and draws you in with her big, beautiful smile. She is also unflappable: During her first year, 2020, she filmed until she was nine-plus months pregnant (watching her while filming, I have to confess to being a little anxious that her baby would arrive while the camera was rolling!). Oscar was born on September 23, 2020, just days after she’d wrapped up the last video. This year, a nasty case of laryngitis slowed her down with four videos left to film. Never fear. She rescheduled and was back on the job ASAP.

Erin, of course, is always joined with the other stars of our Northern Home & Cottage Virtual Tour: each of our featured houses. This year Erin will be touring our audience through eight magnificent homes from Glen Arbor to Harbor Springs. Among them, properties as divergent as a minimalist, earthy 1980s condo redo and a stunning nouveau Victorian. As is always the case on our tours, you’ll get shots of waterfront properties that would make the producers at HGTV’s “Beachfront Bargain Hunter” swoon! Read on for sneak peeks of the eight 2022 tour homes. And find out how simple it is to access the tour on page 20. Get ready for a great show!

Elizabeth Edwards is senior editor of Northern Home & Cottage. Lissa@traversemagazine.com

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1. Soft Touch

Add texture and warmth to your entry or seating area with this 3-by-5-foot Fresca Series IV rug in sturdy and easy-to-clean polypropylene fiber. $172 Woodland Creek Furniture, Traverse City, Kalkaska woodlandcreekfurniture.com

2. Wrap It Up

Tucking a luxurious angora mohair throw blanket around your shoulders lets you linger longer in fall’s cold air. $348 Ciao Bella, Petoskey ciaobellashop.com

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3. Light Up

Twinkle lights are sweet, but a gorgeous outdoor light fixture like this burnished bronze pendant defines your porch space better and welcomes late-night sitting. $739 Advance Electric, Gaylord advanceelectriclighting.net

4. Rock the Night Away

This eucalyptus wood and resin rocking chair combines outdoorfurniture hardiness with indoorfurniture comfort and good looks. VanDrie Home Furnishings, Cadillac, Traverse City, Houghton Lake vandrie.com

5. Hand Warmer

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Amy Gilmore’s Fishtails mug is perfect for sipping a boozy coffee or rum-spiked tea (try the Good Night Moon blend from Traverse City’s Blessed Be Tea & Apothecary for a relaxing cuppa). $45 Amy Gilmore Pottery, Traverse City amygilmorepottery.com

Three NoMi creatives share their go-to’s and favorites of the season.

BY CARA MCDONALD

INSIDER’S GUIDE TO FALL INSPIRATIONDESIGN

MEGAN GILGER

Megan Gilger, a third-generation gardener living in Leelanau County, teaches people to garden confidently so they can more deeply connect to nature and themselves through the seasons. She shares weekly gardening tips on her podcast, blog and Instagram, along with wisdom from her garden and nature in Northern Michigan.

“This season is all about learning how to let go gracefully. A dance of sadness and relief mixed with nostalgia comes with the arrival of autumn. The seasons always offer us a lesson to play with, and in autumn, it is always magic to me to watch how easily the trees release their leaves to cover the forest so it can rest and rebuild. There is so much to learn from that metaphor.”

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FAVORITE MOOD SETTERS

1. Jacob’s Farm for apple picking. I love picking apples with my kids, and this is just around the corner from us, so it is easy to swing over after school for some apple-picking fun.

2. Pumpkin collecting. There is always a day we choose to get away as a family and drive up Center Road on Old Mission Peninsula to get our pumpkins. Something about heading up there always feels like a fall adventure. Cory Holman’s Pumpkin Patch is one of our favorites.

3. A soft linen shirt. I wear my Linen Grandpa Shirt from Toile and Stripes every season, but it works the best on these inbetween days. This shirt is one of my favorite staples with an oversized sweater coat.

4. Hot toddies. The first cool night also calls for the first warm cocktail to fend off the onset of the cold that is bound to come. Local hot apple cider mixed with some bourbon whiskey from Traverse City Whiskey Co. and honey from Cham pion Hill with a squeeze of lemon is all you need.

5. Wool blankets. We linger on the porch as late as possible in the fall, so we put these wool blankets out to keep us cozy around the fire in the evenings and in the mornings with coffee.

6. Dried flower bouquets. In September, I love to start drying things from our land and garden so I can have them for when everything is done growing, and I can remember the beauty of summer.

7. Pumpkin donut fix. I am not much of a sweets person, but every fall, I have to enjoy a pumpkin cake donut from Gallagher’s Farm Market on M-72.

Follow Megan on Instagram: @freshexchange

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ALLISON HARLOW

Allison Harlow is the lead interior designer and owner of Curio Design Studio in Marquette. When not designing kitchen, bath and full-service furniture projects, Allison enjoys spending time with her family exploring the beaches and hiking trails of the Upper Peninsula.

“I love how things slow down in fall. Living in the Upper Peninsula, we know summer will be short-lived, so we pack it full of beach days and hikes and events with family and friends. When fall rolls around things finally quiet down, and it becomes a very peaceful and relaxing time here in Marquette.”

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FAVORITE MOOD SETTERS

1. Scented candles. Light a candle with a soothing woodsy aroma, like a Palo Santo Candle from 906 & Co. in down town Marquette.

2. Crisp cider. I love Barrel + Beam Rightful Cider—they do a cider and donut pairing in the fall that is tasty and sells out quickly!

3. Hot coffee and a stroll. In Marquette, we grab seasonal drinks from Contrast Coffee and check out a few of the local galleries like Zero Degrees, Graci Gallery and The Gallery.

4. A colorful hike. We head to Yellow Dog River Falls, plus a side trip from there to Thomas Rock Scenic Overlook off Co. Rd. 550 to see the fall colors.

5. An inspiring fall arrangement. Samara Floral Co. makes the best, or sign up for one of their fall floral arrangement workshops!

6. Textured wood wall tiles. I love bringing the outdoors in.

7. Warm fall hues. Bringing in warm tones like a copper-colored sofa cozies up your space.

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Forget-Me-Not’s three-person team of Carly, Angel and Shanes run a full-service flower shop in Suttons Bay, specializing in custom floral designs that represent relationships and gestures between people, using flowers as their medium.

“To us, fall means rich, moody, saturated colors,” Carly says. “And it means using dried elements such as grasses and preserved flowers. It means carving pumpkins as a team to create floral centerpieces. It’s the way purple and orange play together so well. It’s the spooky photoshoots. The animal skulls. The smell of cinnamon and apples. It’s finding creative methods to use elements that will last the whole month instead of just a week or so.”

FAVORITE MOOD SETTERS

1. Bold dahlias. It’s the tail end for seasonal flowers, and we love dahlias of all kinds.

2. Dried grasses and curly willow. These add texture and interesting lines to arrangements or make a statement on their own.

3. Long-sleeve dresses. We love working with autumn brides in cooler weather; terracotta/rust/burnt orange/blush wedding flower color stories are especially pretty this time of year.

4. A farm stop. We all love Gallagher’s Farm Market anything, especially hot apple cider.

5. Inspiring architecture. The old state hospital grounds [now The Commons] are beautiful in autumn (and it’s too fun to pretend you’re ghost hunting to give you the jeebies!).

6. Cheese. For us in fall, it’s warm brie with a honey drizzle, served up with red wine.

Timber Frame Beauty, Scott Norris Construction

photo by Samuel Crick

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VIRTUAL HOME TOUR

stop binging design shows on HGTV? Looking to build a home and need ideas? You’ll love our 2022 Northern Home & Cottage Virtual Home Tour. Mark October 28 on your calendar, and block off time to relax and enjoy this year’s event: Eight in-depth video tours through some of Northern Michigan’s most intriguing and gorgeous houses. (Read on for a sneakpeek of these eight homes!)

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Tour-goers love the intimate look that the digital format allows for inside each house, as well as the accompanying interviews with the homeowners and builders. This year, our virtual tour-goers will again find out how our homeowners turned their dreams into reality and meet the local builders, vendors, contractors and architects who made it all possible.

We couldn’t host these tours without our official sponsor, Great Lakes Land Co., specializing in recreational rural land development since 1990. We also want to thank our featured sponsors, Fischer Insurance, Honor Onekama Building Supply, and Max’s Service. As well as our supporting sponsors PMI Grand Traverse and Bryant Wilson of State Farm Insurance.

This year’s revenue from the tour, as it has for the last 10 years, goes directly to Child and Family Services of Northwestern Michigan. Over the past two years, this tour has raised $40,000 for this critical organization. The homeowners on this year’s tour have truly opened their homes to help a child.

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CONTRACTOR MPN, MILLER, POINEAU & NAUMES MPNBUILD.COM by HEATHER JOHNSON DUROCHER photos by CERYS ANNE PHOTOGRAPHY

this magnificent Northern Michigan take on the venerable Cape Cod style was designed by Fred Ball of Frederick Crosley Ball Associates in Harbor Springs and built by East Jordan’s MPN. Known for their impeccable custom woodworking—MPN has an 11,000-square-foot woodworking facility in East Jordan—Chris Miller and his team were the ideal contractors for this home, which is so full of custom woodwork that the only use of drywall is in the above-the-garage apartment ceiling. “I’m a woodworker at heart,” Miller says. “It’s what I grew up doing. Being able to work with homeowners on a project of this magnitude and with this much detail—it’s very gratifying. It’s an absolute masterpiece.”

Exterior cedar shake and lap siding; flared-wall designs; custom corbels outlining the windows; pastels and wood-tone accents; a cedar roof and stone masonry fireplaces. Settle back and enjoy one of the region’s most beautiful homes on the Northern Home & Cottage Virtual Tour.

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by ELIZABETH EDWARDS

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JAMIE WILKINS, TRILLIUM SHORE LLC TRILLIUMSHORE.COM

LOCATION WILLIAMSBURG

this beautiful home sits on a bluff 70 feet above East Grand Traverse Bay, a perch that offers a stellar view across the water to Old Mission Peninsula. The homeowners originally asked Jamie Wilkins for a construction bid—along with many other fine Northern Michigan builders—in 2019. Deciding the home would be too large, they tabled the project. When they were ready to start again last year, they went straight to Wilkins. “We’d felt an immediate connection to Jamie the first time we met him,” the homeowner says. “He had this appreciation for older homes and so do we. We wanted a Shingle style with a lot of traditional touches. We saw his work and the quality was terrific.”

Wilkins suggested Steve Werner of Shoreline Architecture & Design based in Petoskey to help the couple pare down their original plan. The home has all of the gracious qualities of a coastal estate: cathedral ceilings, windows across the front to let in water views, elegant white oak floors and a kitchen (by Heather Neal Design) with marble counters and a butler’s pantry. Even with all of that and more, Wilkins and the homeowners agree that the home’s pièce de résistance is the round, covered and screened porch off the side of the home that is outfitted with a fieldstone foundation and a massive fieldstone fireplace.

In the midst of construction, the family had a medical emergency and needed to let Wilkins make many decisions himself. “We knew they would be what we would choose ourselves,” says the homeowner. One of those decisions was cladding the ceiling in marine-grade mahogany, instead of the beadboard the homeowners assumed it would have. To top it off, he hand-painted a compass rose in the ceiling peak. “It’s a work of art,” the homeowner says.

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by HEATHER JOHNSON DUROCHER photos by EAGLE EYE MEDIA, GREG MACMASTER

CONTRACTOR MAPLERIDGE CONSTRUCTION MAPLERIDGE.US LOCATION LOCHENHEATH, WILLIAMSBURG

inside this two-story, 4,400-square-foot LochenHeath home, a white oak and stainless stair system encased by floor-to-ceiling glass on two sides is what Mapleridge Project Manager Jim Petaja describes as a “glowing lantern of light.” It’s a significant highlight of this home (a custom sliding barn privacy door closes off the second floor from the glowing stair core) with beautiful views of the fairways in this community just east of Traverse City and overlooking East Grand Traverse Bay. Another stand-out feature of the home: a “man cave” complete with a fireplace, built-ins, kitchen and pool table—a perfect place to stream movies or the big game. Each guest bedroom has its own private bathroom with custom showers, glass doors and tile work. The primary bath, meanwhile, features heated floors as well as a free-standing basin tub, cathedral ceiling and large walk-in shower. Mapleridge used maintenance-free CertainTeed shake siding and Restoration trims, and incorporated a cool “sun tube” giving light to a hidden second story office or playroom. A fabulous home entertaining touch: the large pantry and butler’s pantry feature direct access to a grilling porch.

Photo Samuel Crick

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by HEATHER JOHNSON DUROCHER photo by DAVE SPECKMAN

DESIGNER LIZ JERORE, @HOME CABINETRY + INTERIORS HOMECABINETRYANDINTERIORS.COM LOCATION THE HOMESTEAD, GLEN ARBOR

I NSPIREDadriftwood walking stick—propped, ready and waiting on the deck for beach strolls—played a pivotal role in the complete overhaul of this mainfloor Homestead condo that served as a longtime family vacation spot for three sisters throughout their childhoods. Home designer Liz Jerore, working with the siblings on the renovation, noticed the walking stick, with its “beautiful range of earthy colors,” became inspired, and spoke with the new homeowners about using it to build a color palette. The hues proved perfect for a truly updated summer place featuring modern minimalist aesthetics. Jerore, of @Home Cabinetry + Interiors, and her team removed a partition wall, turning the 1,400-square-foot condo into a spacious area ideal for multi-family gatherings. A custom cottonwood-slab dining table, featuring a black steel base and paired with modern low-back chairs, accommodates 12. Other home highlights include natural hickory post-and-beam that defines the dining area and foyer, a corner fireplace— clad in sheets of steel that were powder-coated black—updated kitchen and baths, and luxury vinyl-plank flooring. For these sisters and their families, renovating this cherished place meant honoring the past while carrying forward a legacy for generations to come.

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by ELIZABETH EDWARDS photos by DAVE SPECKMAN

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this home on Old Mission Peninsula was completely renovated by the designers at Antiquities Warehouse— a juggernaut of vintage architectural antiques from Europe and across the country. Antiquities Warehouse is based in a 35,000-square-foot warehouse in Arizona (and a place where the likes of Ralph Lauren and Joanna Gaines shop), but maintains a smaller location on Garland Street in Traverse City.

This home is a vivid example of what can be done with those one-of-a-kind vintage finds most of us swoon over, but have no idea what we’d do with. Every door (many from European castles) and mirror (including some from the tailor’s dressing room at the long-closed Detroit Schenectady’s department store) in this home are vintage. The primary bed headboard once was a French gate, and the bricks around the firepit are antique from Belgium. An elegant chunk of the carriage doors from the old Dodge Mansion in Detroit (also called Rose Garden) now open into this home’s wine cellar.

The work of local craftspeople pulls the eclectic look together. Check out a stone drive, stone fireplaces and more by Jamie Nowicki of Michigan Stone Products, handcrafted walnut kitchen cabinetry by Larry Hammond of Olive Creek Furniture, lighting by Eric Apsey of EA Electric and landscaping by Jordan Valdmanis of Old Mission Associates.

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by ELIZABETH EDWARDS photos by J. LYNN PHOTOGRAPHY

DESIGNER MEAGAN MCLAIN, MCLAIN DESIGNS MCLAINDESIGNTC.COM

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OLD MISSION PENINSULA

when these homeowners, who had just moved back to the United States after years living in England, found this Brady Bunch era ranch house on Old Mission Peninsula, they knew it was the perfect home for their collection of mid-century modern furniture. After purchasing it, they plunged into a renovation with an eye toward keeping the mid-century soul but updating it with a clean, minimalist style.

Working with contractor JP Construction and kitchen designer Meagan McLain of McLain Designs, they transformed the home. Job one was replacing the dark, heavy kitchen cabinetry with sleek white acrylic Artizan cabinetry by Woodland. Next, a peninsula that blocked the cooking space from the rest of the kitchen area was removed and replaced with an island topped in Unique Calacatta by MetroQuartz. A walnut table extends from the counter, creating an L-shape and offering seating that takes in the water view outside. The perimeter counters are also Unique Calacatta Quartz—and used, as well, to face the walls behind the counter up to the ceiling. The GE Café appliances are anything but last century— the homeowners can operate them completely using Siri. The sleek induction cooktop is topped with a mod, barrel-shaped hood made by the Italian company Futuro Futuro. Other new touches are a bar in the kitchen and buffet-style cabinetry for serving hors d’oeuvres to guests lounging in that original ’70s-style sunken living room.

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by HEATHER JOHNSON DUROCHER photos by SAMUEL CRICK

BUILDER SCOTT NORRIS CONSTRUCTION SCOTTNORRISCONSTRUCTION.COM LOCATION GREEN LAKE

this gorgeous corner lot, with frontage on both the Betsie River and Green Lake, stood out to these Chicago homeowners not only for their long-term retirement plans, but also for their more immediate wishes: entertaining lots of friends and family in the interim. The property also happened to be home to a 100-year-old white pine, a beloved landmark that sadly was ravaged by disease and had to come down before building could begin. However, builder Scott Norris, known for his exquisite woodworking, believed the tree could live on. Working with the homeowners, Norris payed homage to it with custom pieces throughout their home—a white pine powder room vanity and other built-ins, a fireplace mantle and accents to the range hood in the kitchen, as well as a special art piece he crafted with slabs from the tree itself. The home is a white pine timber frame house, a specialty of Norris and his team (they operate their own timber frame shop). Just as the owners wanted, the waterfront cottage features plenty of bedrooms—a primary on the main floor, two bedrooms upstairs and a suite atop the garage—so each guest has ample space and always feels right at home.

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by ELIZABETH EDWARDS photos by DAVE SPECKMAN

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CONTRACTOR CMB CONSTRUCTION CMBQUALITY.COM

LOCATION

OLD MISSION PENINSULA

colin Bushong and his team of three extraordinarily skilled craftspeople lent their talents to this beautiful coastal farmhouse (or beachy farmhouse as the homeowner refers to it) on Old Mission’s East Bluff where the view looks out over East Grand Traverse Bay. “What was really special about what Colin brought to the table is his level of teamwork, and the quality of work that his three craftsmen do,” says the homeowner. That quality, she adds, is apparent in the home’s built-ins and beautiful trimwork. “We put shiplap in places as unique touches, and the way they finished the shiplap on corners and edges—I mean, it’s just a real quality job.”

Designed by architect Jessica Van Houzen Stroud, the home was made for entertaining the couple’s adult children and their families. To that end, a magnificent primary bedroom with a huge primary bathroom and equally huge view is on the ground floor. Three en suite bathrooms and a bunkroom upstairs offer plenty of room for visiting family.

The great room’s breezy feel is warmed with oak beams and oak trim. Liz Jerore of @Home Cabinetry + Interiors designed the kitchen and worked with the homeowner on interior choices. (See her work in the story “Nature Inspired” on page 32.)

Both Bushong and the owner agree that the porch across the lake side of the home that takes full advantage of the view is their favorite feature—especially the three-season porch set within the larger porch area. This porch, Bushong says, utilizes a product called Eze-Breeze that is screened in the summer but can be converted to polymer windows in the winter. Warmed by a grand, cultured-stone fireplace, the room can be used from spring through fall. Finally, lovers of great garages and storage areas will appreciate the three-stall attached garage complemented by a free-standing garage for recreational vehicles.

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