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From s eptember through May, the r olstons’ life feels a world away from their Lake Michigan summer home in Traverse City. That’s when d ad, Brian, is the star left wing for the n ew Jersey d evils hockey team. a nd it’s when Mom, Jennifer, is left with most of the parenting of the couple's three sons, r yder, 9, Brody, 7, and s tone, 6, while Brian focuses on the grueling game schedule. a t season’s end, however, the family loads up the car and drives to n orthern Michigan. “We really need the time together—the downtime, the time to regroup,” Jennifer says.

Brian was raised in Michigan and attended Lake s uperior s tate

Opening spread a s a part of the spectacular Craftsmanesque renovation (courtesy of petoskey’s g lennwood Custom Builders and designer Jill r owley), the couple decided to build a pool: “We always had the idea of a pool in the back of our minds,” Jennifer explains. “I grew up with pools. We wanted the kids to swim, but when we got up here in May the lake was cold and it seemed like it was just warming up when we left in August.”

The Rolstons’ infinity pool was designed to visually marry their newly renovated Craftsman-style home to the Lake Michigan shoreline—while maximizing the family’s outdoor experience (note: the outdoor pizza oven in the far right corner). The terrace is Cowboy Coffee quartzite and the raised pool edge is black porcelain tile. This page: Like the pool, the perimeter-edge overflow spa is lined with porcelain tile and lit with an LED light system that offers a palette of light choices. A shallow-water sun shelf wraps around three sides of the spa—perfect for adults to lounge in low beach chairs or, in the Rolstons’ case, for small boys and dogs to splash off excess energy.

College in s ault s te. Marie, so vacationing in n orthern Michigan was a natural, and by 1996 he’d purchased property on Lake Michigan’s e ast Bay in Traverse City, where he built a summer home. The first time he brought Jennifer to visit—fresh from n ew York City where she was living and working—she fell in love with the area. a wedding and three kids later, it was time to renovate the house that Brian had built (“i t was a bachelor pad—you know, with no closets,” Jennifer says with a laugh).

It turned out to be no ordinary pool. ‘ e pool that the Rolstons asked Bob Drost, of Drost Landscaping in Petoskey, to build for them is a 52-by-22-foot four-sided inÿ nity (sometimes called negative edge) pool that presents a Zen-like waterscape, a liquid transition from the home’s terrace to the Lake Michigan shoreline. “‘ ere is just a beautiful marriage between the house, the outdoor patio, the pool and the shoreline,” says Drost—who also cites how exacting the pool’s engineering had to be to ensure that the water poured evenly over all four sides. “If we were o” so much as a ½ an inch we’d have a bare spot on the sides where the water didn’t ™ ow over,” he explains.

Su ce it to say, that everything from the hydraulics (700 gallons of water a minute cycle over the perimeter-edge) to the smart system that allows the Rolstons to begin heating the in-pool spa from their car, even before they reach Traverse City, is perfect. When the Devils’ season ended in June, the Rolstons packed up the family car and drove to Traverse City from New Jersey to see the completed renovation for the ÿ rst time. “It was just breathtaking—we couldn’t believe it,” Jennifer says. “‘ at feeling carried through the whole summer.”

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LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR

Drost Landscape of Northern Michigan, Petoskey, 231.348.2624, drostland scape.com

HOME RENOVATION CONTRACTOR

Glennwood Custom Builders, Petoskey, 231.439.9103, glennwoodcustombuilders.com

HOME DESIGNER Jill Rowley, Boyne City, 231.675.0072

SHOTCRETE

Acme Pool Construction, Inc. Grand Rapids, 616.677.7665