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A New Mood for Northern Home & Cottage Our new departments, Northern Mood and Collections, were born last fall at a meeting at State Street Market, just around the corner from our offices at MyNorth Media. Bright leaves floated down from trees, we (meaning our editorial and art teams) sipped steaming cups of coffee from Grind Coffee Company (one of the market’s eateries) and the creativity flowed. We’d come to the meeting feeling like it was time to freshen up our much-loved Northern Home & Cottage. What emerged as we chatted was the yearning to turn up the spotlight on our spectacularly talented bevy of Northern Michigan designers. So much inspired work comes across our desks—we want to share as much as we can with our readers. But there are only so many pages in a magazine, and often in our home stories that means not including photos of ancillary rooms like the bathroom, mud room or even the pantry. That was the point in the conversation when our editor, Emily Tyra, got that mystical look in her eye that we have come to know signals a great idea taking shape in her bedazzling brain. “Collections,” she said. “Collections of vignettes, all from the smaller, unsung rooms …” And that is why, in this issue we bring you great bathtubs and their settings in the north. You are going to love them. Trust me. Next, we turned our muses to Northern Style. What mood did we want to present? Wait, mood. Mood board. Who doesn’t love a mood board? Let’s give our Northern designers the opportunity to strut what they do so well. So, we introduce to you Northern Moods, a mood board gathered around a theme, curated by a different designer each issue and laid out by our very own inimitable art director, Gail Snable. The premiere of Northern Moods, included in this issue of Northern Home & Cottage, is curated by the brilliant and accomplished Jennifer Keiser of Quiet Moose in Petoskey. We gave her the theme: “Feeling Evergreen,” and, as you’ll see, she more than answered the call. We couldn’t stop ooing and ahhing over it when we saw Gail’s layout. One of us even teared up she was so happy. Yes, we love what we do here. We think you will too.
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We asked Jennifer Keiser of the Quiet Moose in Petoskey to share her take on an “evergreen” theme. She didn’t hesitate for a moment: “Nature-inspired, earthy colors are just right. They help give that feeling of calm and simplicity—that 'evergreen' that everyone prizes,” she says. “As they connect you to the world around you, they’re good for your wellbeing. Suddenly, everything becomes a little more interesting, dramatic, and chic,” Jennifer adds. Jennifer collected her mood board from the new Quiet Moose location, a stunning new store in Petoskey’s Gaslight District. “We have a wide range of hand-curated product including furnishings and other inspiring goods,” she tells us. “It is an interiors shop on the one hand, but a home away from home on the other. We make it so that you feel as though you’re not quite shopping but settling in for the morning or afternoon in a place that feels just like home.” —E.E.
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Northworks Architects and Planners converted a dilapidated 19th-
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century barn on a 60-acre farm outside Niles, Michigan, into a
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weekend getaway. The client, an art gallery owner, wanted to main-
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tain its agrarian vernacular while modernizing the building's
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function. Architect Austin DePree created a corncrib-like structure
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to disguise the main master bath and installed a sliding barn door. Against the dark reclaimed wood walls, he juxtaposed a bright white tub and sinks with modern polished-chrome fittings. The freestanding oval soaking tub provides a place to relax and recharge. Sconces with bronze metal cages and glass shades housing a single bulb add an industrial touch.
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The design team, headed by Dawn Whyte of Petoskey Kitchens, dreamed up this master bathroom reno in a Lake Charlevoix home.
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standing tub brightens the space and lends the upscale feeling they
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allowing a subtle interplay of warm and cool tones. The master suite
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is all about windows and views—defined by the embroidered drap-
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eries which add additional texture and interest. Shiplap walls,
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geometric marble tiles, polished nickel plumbing and a stellar
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Waterworks soaking tub work together to make this master suite
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functioning bathroom. Count using the antique leaded-glass doors
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porcelain knobs on the vanity (that won’t yellow over the years) are
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V-groove vertical planked walls add a cottage flair to this tub design
DESIGNER: Jill Brecheisen of Kitchens by Design
by Jill Brecheisen of Kitchens by Design, as does the color, Benjamin
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Moore’s Beach Glass. “It’s the perfect cottage color to offset the white
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erched on a steep hill overlooking Lake Bellaire, the Beck home nests seamlessly into its setting—thanks to its stacked-stone foundation, low-pitched roof, deep eaves and burnt red siding, a color Frank Lloyd Wright might have called Cherokee Red. It’s easy to believe that the great architect would have approved of the entire home, given that the homeowners, Ken Beck and his wife, Jana Tuckerman, did copious research on his style before they began the building process. Included in their research were field trips to Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob in Pennsylvania and the Seth Peterson Cottage in Wisconsin. Research aside, the couple has plenty of cred for taking on a new build that walks in famous footsteps. Ken is a commercial electrical contractor who has built and renovated several homes of his own. Jana, a veterinarian and antique aficionado, possesses the type of organic sensibility that Wright so prized. But perhaps the biggest factor that contributed to the couple’s vision for what should be built on the site is that they knew this property well. Jana’s grandparents purchased a small ranch-style cabin just down the road from it in the 1950s, and she grew up summering there—playing near the 200-acre Miley estate that housed a family-style camp compound. “As a little girl, my wife always wanted to stay at the resort because she heard the kids playing at the mess hall,” Ken says. Years went by and eventually Jana’s brother bought the grandparents’ cottage. Ken and Jana wondered if it was time to find an Up North place of their own. Several summers ago, they spent a week in the old family cottage and rode their bikes up the hill to the old Miley estate. It had been divided up and mostly sold off, but the large parcel at the top of the hill with its jaw-dropping view of Lake Bellaire was for sale. “We looked at each other and said, ‘We have to buy this,’” Ken recalls. Once the property was theirs, Ken and Jana searched for an architect who would incorporate their ideas into a blueprint. They found one in Joseph Mosey, the principal in a boutique firm that has offices in Northville and Petoskey. Joe met them on site to get a firsthand feel for the topography. Later, Ken and Jana visited him in his Northville office, bringing with them a list of what they wanted in the home. “He did one hand-sketch and it was perfect—exactly what we were looking for,” Ken says.
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The finished home, built meticulously by Mapleridge Construction, is a 1700-squarefoot gem. The efficient design revolves around a massive, stacked-stone fireplace and a 14-foot-tall wall of glass that welcomes the staggering Lake Bellaire view into the home. The collaboration and teamwork between the couple and their construction team was exemplary, says Mapleridge’s co-owner Scott Naumes. The team at Mapleridge worked through the complicated roof system carefully, making sure that rain would even run off of a section that was flat. Additionally, Mapleridge’s talented trim-workers listened carefully to the couple’s vision for a Wrightian-styled built-in bench system in the great room, then added their own calculations about how it should fit into the wall's planked-cedar siding. The finished product is exactly what Ken and Jana had hoped for. Indeed, Ken can’t say enough about Mapleridge’s thoughtful craftsmanship, pointing out as another example a series of drawers that blend seamlessly into the lap siding in the hallway when they are closed. “We told them we’d like more built-in storage and the finish crew came up with this idea,” he says. “I was really impressed.”
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The walnut flooring and channel cedar planked walls (stained with a 50/50 blend of walnut and fruitwood then coated in lacquer) carry out an Arts & Crafts-era organic theme, which designer Angela Goodall of Kitchen Choreography continued in the kitchen. Among her touches are custom-designing a hood out of the same cedar planks used on the walls, adding floating walnut shelves and procuring hand-pressed subway tiles for the walls. The same artisan that made the subway tiles also created a mosaic of the nearby Grass River Natural Area from a sketch that Jana made—turning the range backsplash into an Arts & Crafts-style focal point. The petite home doesn’t lack for anything. Well, except a television. Ken and Jana don’t have one here by design. “This home is for reading, listening to music and looking at the view,” Ken says.” Elizabath Edwards is managing editor of Northern Home and Cottage. lissa@traversemagazine.com // Photos by Dave Speckman
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amp MINOH, the name for the Heathfield family retreat, is tucked into a sublime stretch of sandy Lake Michigan shoreline north of Charlevoix. The property is peppered with birch and pine and not far away a Wyeth-esque barn, its timbers scorched by a past fire, is a reminder of the area’s rural roots. Those features helped inform Camp MINOH’s design—but only after they’d filtered through the inspired imagination of the young designer (now a licensed architect) who was integral to the design team, Andrew Heathfield. Andrew, fresh out of University of Michigan’s architecture school, was working in Portland, Oregon, for the prestigious firm William Kaven Architecture when his parents, Dennis and Lori Heathfield, were ready to build on the property they’d owned for several years. Knowing that they would have the best of both worlds—intimate communication with their son and a shared family vision for their Northern Michigan home, coupled with the experience of William Kaven Architecture—the Heathfields hired the firm to design their home. The Heathfields’ acknowledgment that their new home should be as much a design statement as a comfortable vacation retreat stemmed naturally, says Andrew, from living for years in Columbus, Indiana, a city known for its cutting-edge architecture, including the Harry Weese-designed home that the Heathfields lived in. Weese who designed the Washington Metro, is also credited with being the architect who shaped Chicago’s skyline. “For my parents, the home was a bit outside the box—a 1963 mid-century with a glass atrium, copper roof, parquet floors, etc.,” Andrew says. The Heathfield’s short wish list for their home included Dennis’ desire for the home to echo the nearby charred old barn with its fieldstone foundation and the site’s birch trees. Lori was hoping for a sleek and efficient kitchen. And both parents wanted a lowmaintenance home that would stand up to rugged Northern Michigan winters, as well as a view of Lake Michigan from every room. Andrew’s own muses—shared by the William Kaven design team—included the concrete-and-light inspired designs of Japanese architect Tadoa Ando and the monolithic-style of Louis Kahn.
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The finished home feels planted in its native dune grass and birch-tree site, while making a bold though quiet statement from the winding drive that leads to its entrance. The exterior is an elemental mix of concrete and cypress-cladding that has been charred using the ancient Japanese technique of shou sugi ban—materials that riff on the silvery-black tones of birch, the burned timber of the old barn, and that can also withstand the heavy winds off of Lake Michigan. Polished-concrete floors and a mix of concrete and white-painted drywall in the main living area ensures nothing interrupts the lake view from the banks of floor-to-ceiling windows. Beyond the ever-changing hues from the lake, the room is warmed by a lightstained fir ceiling with exposed beams, by a blackened steel fireplace facade and rich-toned, continuous grain, black walnut cabinetry. Andrew worked carefully with Lori to assure she ended up with the streamlined kitchen she envisioned—one that could handle family gatherings efficiently. “There’s designing a kitchen for a client, and then there’s designing a kitchen for your mom,” Andrew says with a laugh. A window-filled hallway off the kitchen doubles as office space and as a privacyenhancing transition to the master wing. The home’s upper level cantilevers over the first floor, a composition that creates the sensation of floating at the edge of the shoreline.
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The construction process took nearly seven years—during which time Andrew had moved to Ohio, where he owns and operates MINOH, a multidisciplinary architecture studio. The family christened their new home Camp MINOH—MINOH being an acronym for Michigan Indiana and Ohio, all states the Heathfields have lived in. The name is a recognition of the family’s Midwest roots; the home a celebration of the region’s legacy of great design. In 2019, William Kaven Architecture won an Honor Award from AIA Michigan for its role in the design of the project. The jury, chaired by Matthew Kreilic of Snow Kreilich Architects, said of the project: “The restrained material palette, exposed structure and sense of craft in this home creates wonderful spaces to live while the sensitivity to massing and siting create a powerful connection to the beautiful site.” Elizabath Edwards is managing editor of Northern Home and Cottage. lissa@traversemagazine.com // Photos by Matthew Carbone
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