Northern Home & Cottage April/May 2019

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For the Way You Live Up North

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Landscape artchitect Jack Barnwell shares Ten Tips for giving your yard that stunning island vibe.

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Editor’s Note A Breath of Spring

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Northern Style The Need for Green

26 Water Colors

A renovation connecting a lovely home to its watery setting kicks it up to magnificent.

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Designer Marty Rhein unleashed his deep understanding of vernacular Northern Michigan style on two homes at Lakemore Retreat on Arbutus Lake.

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A Breath of Spring Chances are you’ll be reading this right around the first day of spring in 2019. Early spring being a bit of a euphemism in Northern Michigan for winter’s last (and sometimes heartiest) exhale. So after months of white, trust me, you are going to love this issue. Working on it in February made my soul sing—it absolutely breathes color, life, warmth and inspiration.

In this magazine, you’ll meet landscape architect Jack Barnwell who works extensively on Mackinac Island where the Victorian cottages are surrounded by lush gardens that frame stellar views of the Straits of Mackinac. Jack tells us how to create at least a taste of that quintessential Mackinac look in our own yards. And remember, it’s never too early to start planning your garden.

We also visit a gorgeous house on Lake Charlevoix that has about everything relaxing that anyone could ever dream of, including an infinity pool. If an infinity pool (sometimes called a vanishing edge pool) in your own yard sounds unattainable, check out our interview with landscaper Travis Drost whose company Drost Landscaping built the pool. There might just be a way …

Finally, we check in with Lakemore Retreat and its two totally Up North vacation homes on Arbutus Lake outside of Traverse City. The homes, built and designed by the team at Bay Area Contracting, execute Northern Michigan style perfectly. They also remind us of the times we throw open the windows and hear the children splashing in the lake … yes, hold on, those days are coming!

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TELESCOPE CASUALS / LAKE SHORE

By Elizabeth Edwards

Who: Timothy Edge, senior designer and sales at Labadie’s Summer Place Casuals.

As an interior and exterior home designer, as well as a furniture designer, Tim is more than qualified to help customers find their perfect pool (or lakeside) furniture.

Who: Jennifer Keiser, general manager and designer at Quiet Moose in Petoskey.

Credit Jennifer’s exquisite design sensibilities to an art history degree from University of Michigan. And, yes, those sensibilities extend outside to the deck!

What’s hot in outdoor furniture?

In Northern Michigan most people are seeking an outdoor furniture look that blends with our beautiful natural landscape—the woods and water. Nothing flamboyant.

They want pieces that are ergonomic in terms of comfort and style. One company I would point customers to is Telescope Casuals. The furniture is made in America, good quality and a good price point. They have a wide range of styles, fabrics and finishes. Wicker is always popular because it looks both organic and cottagey, and is marine-grade polymer, which resembles wood.

In aluminum-framed furniture, Telescope has a wide range of colors so you aren’t stuck with black or white.

A shade called aged bronze, for instance, blends well with a wooded landscape.

What is hot in outdoor furniture?

We do a lot of work with Lloyd Flanders and Woodard.

Both are Michigan companies. All the furniture at Bay View (the Victorian cottage community on the north side of Petoskey) and many other associations have Lloyd Flanders wicker that is generations old.

For people who don’t want that traditional wicker look, vendors are adding some great transitional and modern designs. One of my favorites is Lloyd Flanders Tobago collection because it can be used with lodge or cottagestyle homes to give a fresh look with much comfort.

Tommy Bahama, from Lexington, is another great line we carry. They’ve got some really great transitional looks with fabulous fabrics. For transitional homes the stainless steel and lines of the Très Chic line are hot. ➤

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No matter your style, here are some tips to keep in mind: Texture is important. There are great vinyl products that look just like wicker, rattan, teak. Blend your outdoor furnishings with your indoor by keeping the finishes and fabrics neutral outside. We get a lot of winds from our lakes, so making sure your furniture has some weight is important. Pillows blow around, too.

There are new frames out there with no pillows that are comfortable and have a lot of style. Foam seats are implemented under the weave.

Who: Dave Pobuda, sales manager at Edwards Home Furnishings in Suttons Bay, with 28 years of experience selling all types of furniture—and sitting on his own porch.

What is hot in outdoor furniture?

I am a big fan of Telescope Casual—a made-in-America company that is a hundred years old. I particularly like their marine-grade polymer.

It’s a great product for outdoor use in Northern Michigan. The color is all the way through, so it doesn’t scratch or discolor, and it comes in all styles from contemporary to cottagey.

I also love Woodard. This Michigan company is 150 years old and still relevant. They are still doing the scrolling patterns forged from wrought iron, such as Briarwood, that most of us are familiar with, but they have many other styles now, and they have branched out into aluminum and woven outdoor furniture. Their products really hold up.

I’ve had a couple of their spring chairs for over 15 years, and they are still in great shape.

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Timeless Mackinac ABSOLUTELY NOTHING SAYS SUMMER ON THE GREAT LAKES LIKE MACKINAC ISLAND COTTAGES WITH THEIR WATER VIEWS AND VIBRANT, ELEGANT GARDENS. AWARD-WINNING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT JACK BARNWELL, THE MAN BEHIND MANY OF THE ISLAND’S PREMIER LANDSCAPES, SHARES SECRETS OF THAT QUINTESSENTIAL STYLE

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1. VIEW CONSIDERATION IS THE KEY. Whether the vista is expansive—looking out at the lake from a great-room window, or an intimate space seen from an office window, framing views from indoor and outdoor rooms is a top priority.

For year round framing, big arching limbs of spruce, or white pine work beautifully. For a summer view, lilacs are a favorite of mine for their classic spring bloom and the ability to prune them to a feathered-out architectural form that can arc around a view.

2. PLANT BIRCH AND ASPEN. The fluttery leaves of these tree species create dancing, dappled light that allows for a bigger plant palette in the microclimate beneath them.

3. BUILD FLAGSTONE PATHS. Flagstones, or large flat irregular stones, create an iconic Mackinac look in the garden. If setting into an existing lawn, lay them out on top and cut around the edge with a sharp flat edging shovel.

Then flip the stones out of the way, remove the sod, and sprinkle a little sand in to set the stones back into the spaces, making sure they are nice and sturdy. In shady areas, we often use woodland moss as our “joints.”

4. LAYER PLANTINGS WITH ROBUST FLOWERING SHRUBS, LIKE HYDRANGEAS, AND “POWERFUL PERENNIALS.” I call perennials that offer more than just their flower appeal "powerful"... in other words, they offer great long-lasting foliage and a good show of flowers for a longer season of performance.

5. USE LIVING GROUND COVERS INSTEAD OF MULCH! Mulch is overused in this country, especially the dyed wood chips available at most big-box stores.

Avoid over-mulching by planting evergreen ground covers instead. Our go-to shade ground covers are pachysandra and vinca minor (myrtle). If kept in bounds, they provide a stunning ground cover. There are many other small spreading perennials like tiarella (also called foamflower) and ajuga that offer similar results.

6. MAKE STATUES, WATER FEATURES AND FOUNTAINS VISUAL DESTINATIONS THAT CREATE RESPITE. Gardens are first and foremost meant to be calming, peaceful spaces that invoke a feeling of relaxation.

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7. CREATE "IMMERSIVE" OUTDOOR ROOMS WITHIN THE GARDEN. These spaces should feel private, safe and secluded whether they are tucked into the site’s natural topography or created through plantings.

8. PLANT CLASSIC HEIRLOOM QUALITY PERENNIALS FOR A TIMELESS MACKINAC LOOK. Varieties like shasta daisy, herbaceous peonies, iris, lilies, and roses are tried and true and are often the hardiest perennials in the garden.

9. MIND YOUR EDGES. Bordering garden beds with a stone wall (even if it is as low as 6-to-8 inches) allows for multiple benefits including more volume for soil amendment, ease of maintenance and turf edging, and a clean finished look.

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10. Lilacs, American flags, and geraniums …

There aren't many gardens on Mackinac that don't include these three elements that add so much to the island's summer look. Lilacs love the limestone-rich, slightly alkaline gravelly soils and have thrived on the island for centuries. Plant them in a well-drained, full-sun area away from towering pines to enjoy these fragrant springblooming beauties.

As for geraniums, always go for “zonal” or zonal-cross geraniums—never seed-grown.

Zonal geraniums are propagated from cuttings and will give you the big flower heads, bigger foliage, and desired look. When dead-heading, don’t use scissors, instead follow the stem down to the node where it sprouted from and snap it off. The sound is meditative …

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Water Colors FOCUSING ON WATER VIEWS AND RELAXATION TAKES A DATED HOME TO OFF-THE-CHARTS TEXT BY ELIZABETH EDWARDS + CARA MCDONALD PHOTOS BY MIKE GULLON + DROST LANDSCAPE

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he new homeowners of this Charlevoix gem found it in great shape but, built in the early 2000s, it was dated.

Beyond that, this couple who love to entertain, wanted to add their own style and transform it into a haven for elegant relaxation that revolves around its spectacular water views.

The dream team of Birchwood Construction and Drost Landscape worked together to remake the lakeside of the house, playing up its connection to its spectacular setting. Birchwood partner, Ken Provost, headed up the structural revamp, starting with a new roofline and dormers to accentuate the lake views from the upstairs levels. A windowed cupola (designed by Gary Nance of Gary Nance Designs) gives historic character to the exterior and floods the third floor loft with light.

Copper detail on the roof adds a vintage theme; extending the copper to completely clad a new covered porch on the terrace is just plain elegant. A generous NanaWall Door that stretches across the back of the home frames the view from the great room; a view that moves across the covered porch, the terrace and the infinity pool to Lake Charlevoix. The terrace, infinity pool and retaining walls are all laid with handsome Blue Elite granite with Valders limestone steps and rug insert on the patio. Steps from the infinity pool (outfitted with in-water speakers for swimming enjoyment) Drost Landscape created a signature outdoor kitchen that can handle everything from pizza to gourmet meals.

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On the inside, Interior Designer LuAnn Shepherd, working closely with the homeowner, took the sand-and-water cue and developed a palette of soft aquas, beiges and creamy whites that flows through the house. The wide-planked oak flooring washed with a creamy, semitransparent stain feels like sand, the dining room table base is fabricated from driftwood and the (original) fireplace facade is made from barn wood with a new creamy wash.

Elegant, overstuffed furniture and touches including custom-designed built-in cabinetry add luxe to the beachy feel.

Downstairs, the slabs of striking watery blue Roma Stone (used on a new guest kitchenette and bar) were fabricated at TJ Marble & Granite in Petoskey. Gary Nance designed the supercool shiplap mantel flanked with log cross-sections. Coupled with the whitewash billiards and shuffleboard tables, the downstairs spells vacation.

Generally speaking, no remodel is complete without rethinking the kitchen, but in this case, the homeowner fell in love with the original kitchen and opted to keep it as was.

Throughout the house, Ken turned up the heat—installing all new in-floor heat, driveway heat, patio heat. Everywhere you turn, there’s custom detail to make the home more accessible (like a new elevator) and gathering friendly (like around the nine-foot custom fireplace). Now the rest of the house is as timeless and gracious as that kitchen.

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THE HANDSOME L ANDSCAPING AND GOU RMET OUTDOOR KITCHEN WERE DESIG NED AND PERFEC TLY E XECUTED BY DROST L ANDSCAPE .

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THE SE AMLESS VIEW FROM THE POOL TO THE L AKE SPELL S INFINIT Y.

Dreaming of an Infinity Pool? Sky’s the Limit ….

The pièce de résistance of the landscaping in this home is an infinity lap pool, constructed

by Drost Landscape, that is set into the side of the bluff so that the view from the pool makes it feel as though it flows into Lake Charlevoix—while in reality it cascades down the side of a stone wall and splashes across boulders before it is magically pumped back up to the pool.

True this pool was meant for serious lap swimming, but nevertheless, like all infinity pools (or as they are sometimes called, vanishing edge pools) it is the epitome of romantic relaxation.

The mechanics behind an infinity pool’s magic are powerful jets that pump the water back into the pool after it has cascaded across the top of one lip that is slightly lower than the pool’s other edges (called the weir) into a catch basin below. Beyond those must-have features there is really no end to the variations on the infinity pool theme. Don’t have a hillside to set one into? How about a deck? Freestanding infinity pools are also gorgeous.

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A DROST L ANDSCAPE DESIG N TO CONCE AL THE MECHANIC S OF THE INFINIT Y POOL FEEL S LIKE A EU ROPE AN CASTLE .

If your dreams are endless but your budget isn’t, you might consider a smaller pool size (or even simply an infinity hot tub) and saving money on the cost of the pool cladding—Pebble Tech versus materials like the Elite Blue granite used around this pool.

Whatever you choose, Travis Drost, the project manager for Drost Landscape, advises to make sure your pool melts into its setting. “People are struck by the pool,” he says speaking of this home, adding that they don’t realize until they look closer how much the pool is accentuated by the landscaping around it.

Elizabath Edwards is managing editor of Northern Home and Cottage. lissa@traversemagazine.com // Photos by Mike Gullon + Drost Landscape

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arlier this year, a group of colleagues from Quicken Loans in Detroit booked both rental houses, one a cottage and the other a lodge, at the year-round Lakemore Retreat on Arbutus Lake for a team-building getaway. The retreat is owned by and was built by Dean and Tricia Adams of Bay Area Contracting.

The group filled the homes—twelve people in each—and their days with meetings and breaks to snowshoe and ski the beautiful wooded setting. Happy hours on the enclosed and heated porch as the sun set over Arbutus Lake (actually lakes—Arbutus is made up of five interconnected lakes), followed by casual dinners in the perfectly outfitted kitchens rounded out their experience in these luxury home rentals.

The group enjoyed themselves immensely, and if they felt like they’d escaped to a timeless Northern Michigan era, well that was by design—a feeling that began with BAC Designer Marty Rhein. Certainly, Marty developed mood boards to outfit these two homes, but before that, before anything, he says he spent time both with the owners and walking the property asking himself, “What is Arbutus Lake saying? What needs to be here?”

The answer came back clearly: Timeless Northern Michigan structures that are connected to their site and the lifestyle that is lived on this lake. They would both have classic Arts & Crafts details, evoking the era when cottaging began on this lake, but they would be as different as, say, a farmhouse-turned-cottage and a lodge that had once housed fishermen and hunters.

The fun “who knew?” in the Lakemore Retreat story is that Marty worked with identical floor plans for both structures—one would be named the Cottage, the other the Lodge—but with his thoughtful, thematic interiors and exterior details, guests are not even aware. The floor plans began like everything else at BAC, with collaboration between designers Ken Williams and Marty. Working with some simple parameters (each home needed to sleep 12 people) the two developed a blueprint that melded the feel of a home with an old lodge or farmhouse. As in—the hallway from the entrance to the great room is lined with the guest rooms.

But there had to be that Wow factor—as in, from the time you walk in, the sight line goes to a bull’s-eye view of Arbutus Lake.

From there, Marty says he designed inside out … in the Lodge, a big fieldstone fireplace, rough-hewn white oak floor and walnut interior details including railings, kitchen island cabinet, and a jaw-dropping walnut slab table set the tone for a cigars-after-sunset sort of feel. An American flag made out of wood that he and Trish discovered at an antique store adds another layer of vintage Americana.

Marty had it mounted on the great room wall and then parlayed that vintage red throughout the home from the board-and-batten siding to the red leather sectional in the billiards room.

The cottage? Ah, the cottage … all beach-side colors and seafoam-colored shakes on the exterior. Authentic Northern Michigan barn beams and a super-cool light fixture fashioned from a wagon wheel (another key find!) and beach-glass colored bubble-glass shades define this space.

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TOP: SOF T SHADES OF WATER AND SAND CRE ATE THE COT TAG E VIB E . AN OLD WAGON WHEEL MART Y AND TRICIA FOU ND WAS THE INSPIR ATION B EHIND THE COOL KITCHEN PENDANT LIG HT. / BOT TOM LEF T: THE COT TAG E AND THE LODG E E ACH HAVE THEIR OWN FIRE PIT—THIS IS NORTHERN MICHIGAN AF TER ALL! / FLOR AL LINENS SPE AK THE VINTAG E COT TAG E THEME .

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CLOCK WISE: MART Y AND TRICIA USED THEIR WOODEN FL AG - FIND TO SET THE LODG E’ S AMERICAN THEME . / RUSTIC B ED FR AMES PARL AY THE AMERICANA THEME . / NOTHING SAYS LODG E LIKE AN AUTHENTIC FIELDSTONE FIREPL ACE . THIS ONE IS TRICKED OUT WITH A STU NNING WALN UT MANTEL . / THE LODG E’ S FOU R-SE ASON PORCH . NOTE THE BARNWOOD CEILING .

Different they may be, but each structure is rooted in what it means to vacation on a lake in Northern Michigan: Throw open the window of the heated three-season porch on a summer’s night, curl up in a cozy chair, turn on the fan if it is hot outside, and let the sounds of nature in. When the two homes were completed, the BAC team booked them for several nights, bringing along their families. “It lived just like I hoped it would,” Marty says. “We opened the windows and you could hear the sounds of the kids playing in the lake and the call of loons.”

Elizabath Edwards is managing editor of Northern Home and Cottage. lissa@traversemagazine.com Photos by Tricia Adams + Kaity Bruinsma

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