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Home, Sweet Home

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editor’s note

Home, Sweet Home I am sure that our readers share my intense feel-

Until then, join me in being so grateful for the

ings about the importance of home—and staying in it

homes that we have—whether they are in the woods,

until this pandemic ends. That sentiment was certainly

on the water, in a suburb or city. Our staff at

expressed by the two sets of homeowners I interviewed

MyNorth (Traverse Magazine, Northern Home & Cottage,

for the home stories in this issue. I had such a lovely

MyNorth.com among our many products) has heard

time on the phone with each of these folks as we chat-

from so many of you this month, telling us about how

ted from our respective home offices. We were all so

important our publications are to your connection with

happy to talk about something that brings joy and we all

Northern Michigan. Despite the fact that by virtue of the

expressed gratitude for the shelter of our homes.

circumstances we are more isolated from any of you

I expect that when this is finally over, residential architecture will never be the same again. There will

than we could ever imagine, in our hearts, we feel closer than ever.

be more emphasis than ever on passive homes—solar

Stay safe, stay well, and settle into this issue to

power, wind power and drum-tight insulation. The

celebrate homes of the present—and take a moment

concept of passive homes, in fact, dates to the 1970s

to dream of all the good things to come.

and another crisis: the oil embargo/energy crisis. I also envision a slew of other concepts that make households more self-sufficient becoming standard home-construction practices: smart home offices for parents and smart learning stations for children, as well as rooftop gardens, greenhouses, aquaponics, even chicken coops. It will be

Elizabeth Edwards is managing editor of Northern Home & Cottage. lissa@traversemagazine.com

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he before photos of the Oostras' house, are, ahem, homely. It was khaki colored and more-or-less shapeless—except for an attempt at rafter tails under the eave that ended up looking more like toad warts. Ouch. The interior? Shag carpet, chopped up rooms and, the crowning touch: “When you walked in the front door, the first thing you saw was the furnace,” says Randy Oostra, who purchased the home with his wife, Barb, several years ago.

This is a tough description of a home that has made decades of people very happy. And the house is located in Crystal Downs, the private golf course just outside of Frankfort, where it is hard to be anything but happy. At the heart of Crystal Downs is its golf course designed by the renowned British course designer Alister MacKenzie in 1928, with challenging greens, hills rolling the glacial landscape and wide-open Lake Michigan views from the bluffs. Beach Road, a part of the private club, runs under that bluff and beside the lake.

That’s where the Oostras' house sits, nestled in a grove of trees that open onto the lakefront.

There were some admirable qualities about the home—it had a nice footprint and it was set back far enough from the water to allow room for a small addition. Working with a design-and-build team made up of architect Bob Yvon, Ray Franks of Heartwood Custom Builders and designer Angela Goodall of Kitchen Choreography, the Oostras decided not to tear it down; it was worthy of a remodel.

Given the home had basically no style, the couple’s options were wide open. Working with Yvon, the Oostras set about giving the exterior a Craftsman feel—a style that is comfortable with its neighboring mid-century homes. The transformation is, can we say, princely? The once boring roofline is now a pretty medley of eaves, the former khaki siding is covered in gray shake trimmed in white and the rafter trails are true to the Craftsman style.

While the additions to the footprint were simple—a pantry, screened-in porch and master suite—the interior’s metamorphosis is no less dramatic. “The main change was the way the spaces in the home were reused,” Randy says. Those changes included turning the dark basement into a window/light-filled walkout with two guest bedrooms. Each is outfitted with fun wallpaper and, in place of closets, Goodall designed what she calls hotel lockers—openfronted recessed areas outfitted with a hanging bar and counters. The concept functions more efficiently in a guest room than a closed-in closet, Goodall explains.

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Indeed, the home is marked with signature touches all through, including fabulously patterned wallpaper and tile. In the powder room bath, the Oostras asked if pebbles could be designed into the shower-floor tile—thinking that they’d give an interesting contrast to the tile. Kitchen Choreography’s tile layers accomplished it to a striking effect.

The home’s pièce de résistance is its great room that faces the lake. The small windows that once let in only squinty views are replaced with a wall of glass that rises to transoms and finally to a set of clerestory windows, bathing the entire room in light and watery views.

Working closely with Goodall, the Oostras chose a palette of soothing driftwood shades for a serene backdrop to the vibrant lake view. A small-but-efficient open kitchen at one end of the great room replaces the original dark, cramped kitchen that was blocked from lake views. Outfitted with creamy white cabinetry, marble-like Cambria Quartz countertops and the new pantry, the space can do anything a bigger kitchen can. “It’s not huge, it is just right,” says Barb. “Everyone gathers there.”

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Goodall helped the couple select a series of six wrought-iron chandeliers that hang from the creamy V-groove-clad cathedral ceiling with its oak beams, adding intimacy to the soaring height. The Oostras sum up their home’s style as casual classic—worthy of its extraordinary setting, yet, as Randy says, “The kind of home where guests feel comfortable helping themselves to the refrigerator.”

It is a true happily-ever-after story for the Oostras and their home—one that came with a bonus: The friendship between the homeowners and their design-and-build team that began during construction has continued. “We had a lot of fun together,” Randy says. “We count them all as friends.”

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ne could believe that Megan Batson is reading right out of a storybook when she tells about her childhood summers at her grandparents’ cottage in Quebec. Every June, Megan, her sister, Melanie, and their parents, John and Margaret Faulkner, headed from their Michigan home to Quebec to spend time with their extended family. “It was always about family and everybody being together,” Megan says. “There were times that we’d have 12 to 15 family members up there—huge gatherings and we just loved them.

“We are all about cottage life” Megan continues. “We love the camaraderie of family campfires, staying up late and playing games, spending time on the lake—and the whole outdoor experience. When it’s chilly you build a fire… ” Then one summer the extended family had become too large to accommodate everyone at the Quebec cottage at once and Megan and Melanie felt the end of an era had come. By this time, Megan and her husband, Wade, lived in Texas and Melanie and husband, Bob, lived in southern Michigan. They decided to rent a cottage on a lake near Cadillac with their parents—and look at real estate in the area so that they could begin a new cottaging tradition in Northern Michigan. They scouted properties for several days, but nothing felt just right. Then one day Megan remembers, everyone was gathered on the back porch of their rental cottage and she decided to check Craigslist. A property on Spider Lake outside of Traverse City popped up. They decided to have a look.

Once at the property, the family knew immediately that they’d found the site of their new cottage. Spider Lake had the same wooded, remote feeling that their lake in Quebec had.

The property was at the end of an access road, just like the Quebec cottage had been. Add to those features the fact that the property’s sellers were a long-time Spider Lake family who still live on the lake and were hoping to find buyers who appreciated the lake’s cottaging lifestyle. Sold.

As Megan self-describes, she isn’t one to let grass grow under her feet, so she launched a search for an architect (which included perusing back issues of Northern Home & Cottage!) that ended with the family hiring Joseph Mosey. After Mosey asked them for examples of features they wanted, they came back to him with a few basic concepts: They didn’t want a Cathedral ceiling in the great room. Instead, they wanted the intimacy of a defined kitchen and living and dining rooms—yet they wanted the rooms to flow into each other. They all have dogs; they wanted a dog shower.

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And that kitchen? It had to be laid out precisely to Megan’s specifications—a wish that she credits Mosey for taking seriously. “I love to cook and I am very particular about how my kitchen works,” she says. “Joe listened.”

The family was willing to trust Mosey on the exterior and the precise layout of home, only expressing their wish for the home to feel cottagey and fit into the site. The end product, with its mossy-green siding and stone foundation, blends sweetly into its setting. “The house draws its rustic cues from the wooded setting and introduces balance and order amid the randomness of the forest,” Mosey explains.

“The design of the house is extremely site specific,” he continues. “It follows the lake’s shoreline and the rooms are set up to capture the distinctly different views of the lake. The living room looks out to the widest and more public part of the lake, while the screened porch on one side, and the master suite on the other have views of more quiet, private coves.

The different views unfold and change as you move through the spaces, allowing you to experience the entire amazing site.”

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But the greatest gift Render gave the family was speed. Sadly, John Faulkner was diagnosed with dementia just as the construction began in the fall of 2014. The sisters put the push on Render to finish the job by the summer of 2015. “We wanted to make memories in the cottage with our father while he could still remember,” Megan says. Render came through and the family gathered in their new Spider Lake cottage by August. And yes, there were late-night games, canoe and kayak paddles and s’mores built and eaten over the fire— that summer and summers since. For this family, cottaging, the next chapter, continues.

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