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8 Decorations
6 Fantastic fall
good enough to eat
fashion
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Downtime on
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Bountiful libations for your next harvest party 4
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Chase away chills with a ďŹ repit
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own a house with my husband in northern Antrim County, but it is left largely without decorations or any final touches. Our home is somewhat of a blank canvas. Oh, sure, we painted the walls with neutral colors before moving in and since placed a few pieces of art or photographs on the walls. But really, our furniture and other belongings are what’s left over from our single lives, our college collections. My new position as the Petoskey NewsReview’s niche products editor means I will have access to some of the most stylish, trendy and just plain fancy homes across Charlevoix and Emmet counties. I intend to steal as many ideas as I can afford. I’m already making a list. The “built-in” china cabinet recessed into the wall of Michele and Chris Shafer’s efficiency bungalow in Charlevoix is a fantastic idea. It’s a bright, clean place to both store and display fine china and flatware. I intend to have one, too, just as soon as I have some fine china and flatware to display.
Then there’s the careful use of local fieldstone to create a beautiful outdoor space around the charming cottage owned by Julie and Jim Kelly on Walloon Lake. The boulder-lined staircase twists and turns down to the lakeshore, with lots of spaces for perennial plants and other garden flowers. I can envision fieldstone landscaping in my own garden, even if it means I must collect them for myself from alongside area two-tracks or potato fields. I can only hope
my fieldstone dreams are as beautiful as the Kelly’s fieldstone reality. And finally, there’s nothing I love more on a crisp, autumn night than sitting around a bonfire and relaxing with family and friends. Currently we use a portable fire pit, one with a screened lid that can easily be scooted around. But I would trade both it and a bundle of money to have a bonfire ring like that of Terry and Laurie Marrs. They traded-in an old hot tub for a fire pit built with fire bricks, fieldstone and bluestone, a lovely place to gather with friends and enjoy autumn as it’s meant to be done in Northern Michigan. So I hope you enjoy this issue of HomeLife as much as I enjoyed preparing it. Perhaps you also have an inviting bonfire pit that beckons for you to cuddle up and catch up on your reading. Go ahead and start here.
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Fantastic for fall Dressing warmly doesn’t mean sacrificing style By Sheri McWhirter • Photography by G. Randall Goss
Local clothing shops can provide all that’s needed
to look fantastic for your next autumn harvest party, whether you are the host or the guest. Consider some of these trendy fashions when shopping for your next outdoor fall soirée, whether you expect to sit by the bonfire or celebrate your team’s latest touchdown.
Much of this ensemble is from Ralph Lauren. The knit, longsleeved polo shirt is by Ralph Lauren and costs $125 at The Claymore Shop in Petoskey. The other two Ralph Lauren pieces are the vest for $225 and the trousers for $145. The Michigan State University belt is from Smathers & Branson for $165. The sport shirt is by Vintage 1946 and costs $105 at The Claymore Shop in Petoskey, while the V-neck sweater is by Peter Millar for $155. The jeans are by Bills Khakis for $105 and the jacket is by Peter Millar for $195. 6
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Tribal Sportswear produced the skinny-leg pants available for $56 at Mary’s of Boyne in Boyne City, while Michael Tyler created the $68 animal print cowl neck tunic with the asymmetrical hem. The knit poncho is by Van Klee and costs $32, while the jewelry options are from Gold Standard Jewelry, the red necklace and earrings set going for $38 and the gold necklace and earrings set for $30.
The Bali tunic coat with an asymmetrical hem costs $120 at Mary’s of Boyne in Boyne City, while the teal-colored Lana Lee cowl neck sweater is $62. The fleecelined leggings are by K. Bell and cost $32, while the $30 mustard-colored scarf and $38 jewelry set comes from Gold Standard Jewelry.
The rugby shirt is by Vintage 1946 and costs $98.50 at The Claymore Shop in Petoskey, while the jeans are by Hiltl for $195. The University of Michigan belt is from Smathers & Branson for $165.
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Good enough to eat Add color to fall party decorations with food
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ecorating for an autumn harvest party practically begs for the use of fresh, local produce. William Santos, of Monarch Garden & Floral Design in Petoskey, said it’s easy to create simple, fun decorations for indoors or out using what you find at the farmers market. He recently created a couple of stylish designs for floral arrangements ideal for a fall gathering, whether for food or football. 8
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“It is getting more popular to decorate for the seasons. The trick is to coordinate the colors to go together,” Santos said. His first creation is an arrangement with zinnias, miniature daisies and dry birch branches from the garden. The branches are best cut during the winter, when no leaves have to be removed, Santos said. He created the arrangement of flowers in a large glass vase, then added a strong rubber band around the base. Santos tucked into the rubber
band fresh green onions from Bill’s Farm Market in Petoskey, creating the look of a vase made from vegetables. The final touch is to cover the rubber band with some rafia, or any other type of natural ribbon material such as dune grass. “In the spring, this concept could work with asparagus,” Santos said. “Maybe carrots at Easter.” Another option instead of the onions is to slide the glass vase inside a carved out pumpkin, a good choice for harvest time or Halloween, he said. Santos’ second creation is an arrangement of sunflowers and apples, also found at the local farmers market. The apples are best used in a floral arrangement by sticking a wooden floral stick into the underside of the fruit, then placing it into a Styrofoam floral base along with the flowers. Santos finished off the piece by using a rubber band to attach loose leaf kale, and again wrapping the rubber band with rafia. The last produce-themed decoration Santos created is fresh apple votives, basically fruit candle holders. He used a special candle carving tool to remove just enough of the apple’s core to easily slide a tealight candle into the space. This type of candleholder could be used as decorations on tables or near flower arrangements, or even floating in water in an old wash basin, a new take on the traditional apple-bobbing activity. “These apples are a one-night thing. One night and it’s done,” Santos said. “You could use any fruit, anything that’s solid.” In the end, Santos said there are many more options for autumn decorating with produce beyond simply carving a pumpkin to put on your doorstep. But it’s not always sugar and spice, he said. “Inside the house you have to be careful with natural things, like real pumpkins and gourds, because they rot. Sometimes they rot from the inside out. So always put a dish underneath,” Santos said. And a general rule is that decorating with vegetables tends to cause fewer problems than fruit, which rots faster and attracts more fruit flies. “Just try it. Some people are afraid of trying the do-it-yourself stuff,” Santos said. “But it’s easy and creative. Just go to the farmers market and have a look.” HL
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New bungalow is a perfect fit Two-story home charms Charlevoix corner By Sheri McWhirter • Photography by G. Randall Goss
new, two-story bungalow sits on a Charlevoix street corner, a charming addition to an older neighborhood in the city’s southwest end. Chris and Michele Shafer, of East Lansing, last year built the small, efficiency house as their “Up North” getaway, a special place they may one day call their permanent home. They chose a relatively small city lot and Site Planning Development Inc. of Charlevoix, designed and constructed the forest green bungalow with all its charms. Both in structure and in style, the new home is meant to foster a sense of community with the neighbors, along with an openness both inside and out. Michele Shafer said she loves her new house in Charlevoix and is pleased every time a neighbor or passer-by compliments the structure. “I think it’s elegant and comfortable. It fits in our neighborhood. When you are new to a neighborhood, you have to respect the culture of that existing neighborhood,” Michele said. “I like being able to
walk out my door and in 10 minutes be at the store, the farmers market, the library, the arts council, the downtown or the beach.” Michele is a retired downstate high school social worker, while Chris formerly worked as a section chief with the Michigan Department of Natural Resource’s shorelands program. Now Chris is a con-
stitutional and environmental law professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing. They spend their down time and holidays at their retreat home in Charlevoix, Michele said. “This is our gathering place for the holidays, so we needed a bigger space,” she said while standing in her tidy and efficient kitchen.
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Kitchen designer Brooke Anderson, of Preston Feather in Petoskey, designed the kitchen and cabinetry throughout the home. The challenge was to make the best use of the available space, even creating “built-ins” throughout the house. “We started with the blueprint. We wanted to make sure we maximized every space and still considered the flow through the home,” Anderson said. Some tricks that proved useful included running the kitchen cabinets all the way to the ceiling and building a china cabinet recessed into the dining room wall. “That’s a pretty unique feature,” Anderson said. The kitchen also is designed with a countertop peninsula to provide additional work space, as well as somewhat of a divider between the kitchen and the dining area. Michele said the kitchen works ideally for her family, especially when all gathered for holidays or celebrations. She can work in the kitchen and serve buffet-style from the countertop peninsula for both those at the dining room table and those at the harvest table around the corner in the living room. “The women tend to sit in the kitchen and the men come out here to the harvest table to watch the football game,” Michele said, laughing. Off the kitchen is a small back porch, where Michele said she and Chris often drink coffee and chat with neighbors or dog-walkers. The perch provides a lovely view of both Michele’s raised garden bed and the Fond du Lac stone patio encircled with planted herbs. “I just like to play a little bit with the gardening,” Michele said. Inside by the kitchen is a ground-
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floor laundry room and half-bathroom, along with a computer room crafted from the bungalow-style butler’s pantry. Up the stairs is an additional mantle built into the wall, an ideal seasonal decorating spot spotlighted with plenty of natural light shining in through the home’s abundant — and often elevated — windows. The staircase features a newel post and the bungalow also has sharp, blocked corners for both the floor and door trim, along with the specially designed front and back doors. A tiny detail that makes a big impact is the square-shaped plinth blocks tucked into each corner, mounted horizontally across the top of the floor trim. “People always ask about that,” Michele said. The second story is where the home’s two bedrooms are found, both tastefully decorated in bungalow fashion. Both the guest and master bedrooms feature both egress windows and high windows across exterior walls, providing a flood of natural light and bright, sharp lines. A special feature for the guest bedroom is a private bathroom, complete with full bathtub, vanity and
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a water closet separated by a sliding door that’s hidden in the frame when open. A “built-in” display area behind the bedroom door features deep shelves for framed photos and other decorations. The master bedroom is wellframed by matching egress and high windows that frame the bed. The room features classic Americanstyle furniture and a built-in reading nook in the corner. “I actually knit there. My cat and I sit there a lot,” Michele said. The master bathroom is tucked into a corner and despite being a somewhat small room, two windows provide a greater sense of openness in what otherwise might have felt somewhat cramped. The window above the commode is elevated to near the ceiling, an amenity that proved challenging for contractors but that the Shafers insisted be included. “Windows let light into dark corners and we like that,” Michele said. Out front is a large, wooden porch, a proper deck with comfortable outdoor furniture. Carefully placed landscaping and a brick walkway set the scene for a tidy and inviting city bungalow. The front porch also proves popular among the Shafers’ family members and guests, who sit or nap for long periods in the shaded space. “Porches help make neighborhoods,” said Traver Wood, senior landscape architect with Site Planning Development Inc. And with Lake Michigan just three blocks away, the 1,400-squarefoot Charlevoix retreat home, with its warm features and efficient use of space, serves its perfect purpose, Michele said. “It’s not just the physical home. It’s that sense of community and sense of place that is appealing,” she said. “It’s got to feel good to your heart. We feel really good about it.” HL
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Downtime
on Walloon Lake By Sheri McWhirter • Photography by G. Randall Goss
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he Kelly family spends its downtime at Downtime. A beautiful, log cabin-style cottage on Walloon Lake provides the backdrop for the Cincinnati family’s retreat home in Northern Michigan, a lake where both Julie and Jim Kelly have annually spent summers since childhood. But the days of rental cabins are gone and the Kellys now own a classic, hilltop cottage with a shimmering daytime view of the blue waters below. “We saw this window and we were sold. It was the ‘wow’ moment,” Julie said while standing in her cottage living room, looking down at the lake. “We were sold on the view. It’s bright and cheery.” The Kellys and their four children are frequently at their lakeside cottage, whether to play in the summertime water or downhill ski at nearby resorts in the winter months. The place is all about playing, relaxing and getting away from their busy city lives. “In the summer it’s about being on the lake and wakeboarding, but we like the skiing, too. Our heart is in Walloon, for sure. We don’t have to twist arms to come here,” Julie said. “You can hang in your bathing suit all day, don’t have to get dressed up. It’s just so chill here, so laid back — we love it.” There’s just one rule that is strictly enforced at the Kellys’ retreat home. No mobile phones can be used in the shared family space, a regulation that primarily impacts the Kellys’ adult or teenage children. All calls must be made or received either in their bedrooms or outdoors, Julie said. “That’s Jim’s rule and we like it,” she said. Jim said the cottage is meant to provide
family time with stunning scenery. “It’s the beauty and the water,” he said. Julie said she decorated the cottage through her own bargain shopping adventures. Much of the furniture, decorative pillows and linens came from outlet mall stores, though the beds were purchased with the home. “I really wanted it comfortable for the kids. You know, no fuss. I went with neutrals and colored stripes,” she said. The living room features neutral colors, with bright stripes on throw pillows and such, all centered around a large fieldstone hearth. The tidy space also carries a birch bark theme with decorative candles and two living birch trees just outside the two large, south-facing bay windows, which flood the room with natural light through-
out the day. The kitchen is completely redesigned from the cottage’s original layout. The kitchen and laundry room swapped spots in the recent renovation by Young and Meathe, of Petoskey. “The kitchen was hidden and you had no view from where it was,” said David Faulkner, the company’s project supervisor for the cottage renovation. Now the cottage boasts a large, spacious kitchen with an island in the center. The sink is tucked into a corner of the room, a layout choice to allow for the island, Faulkner said. One thing that didn’t change in the kitchen is the original pantry, complete with an old, wooden door. “It was kind of cute the way it was,” Faulkner said. HOMelife 17
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Julie Kelly used her mother’s old suitcase to decorate an upstairs guest room.
Upstairs in the cottage are found several comfortable bedrooms, including a master, guest, bunk room and another with two twin beds and a daybed, creating plenty of space for the six-member family and guests. Also, contractors left little touches in the bedrooms that maintain the historical cottage flavor, such as the original door knobs and closet latches. “We tried to keep some of the original stuff like that,” Faulkner said. To continue the theme of historical Americana going, Julie decorated the spaces with items such as a classical guitar and her mother’s old suitcase. In the master bedroom, Jim keeps a small, minimalist desk with a perfect view of the shimmering lake. Finally, the redesigned upstairs bathroom is pure luxury with its heated tile floor and spacious layout, typically uncommon in old lakeside cottages. The master bathroom once was a bedroom, which allows for the comfortable space. The large, stand-up shower tiles resemble metropolitan subway tiles and the bathroom ceiling is the original wood, painted white to create clean, sharp lines. The home also affords a small, full bathroom when a soak in the tub is all that’s wanted, Julie said. Outdoors, the Kellys’ property is expertly landscaped with local glacierdeposited fieldstone and boulders, creating a winding staircase to the Walloon Lake shore. They created a sandy beach near their boat dock and placed a wooden bench and lawn chairs around a moveable fire pit. All told, what appears a modest lakeside cottage offers spacious, luxury retreat living for the Kelly family, where they eat, nap and play outside as much as possible. But winter’s cold doesn’t keep them away, either. “We feel so lucky. We’ve been married 26 years and this is what we’ve always wanted,” Julie said. “We have been up every month this year.” HL HOMelife 19
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he crisp air of autumn is back and it’s the perfect season to enjoy your backyard patio and bonfire pit. Cooler temperatures drive away the mosquitoes and Northern Michigan residents and resorters can finally sit outdoors without first dousing themselves in sticky, smelly insect repellent. It’s a fine time of year to ignite a fire and enjoy the natural, colorful scenery. The design and construction of quality bonfire pits is somewhat of a local tradition. Homeowners steal ideas from each other, a game of luxury garden one-upmanship that often results in big, beautiful places to relax, roast marshmallows and keep toasty in a bonfire’s glow. “It adds so much character to a site,” said Robert Drost, owner of Drost Landscape Design & Construction, of Petoskey.
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option Concrete John Cupps, of Cupps Masonry in Har-
bor Springs, said he can build beautiful outdoor fire pits at a fraction of the cost of fieldstone and bluestone outdoor spaces. He recently built a large, communitycentered bonfire pit at Stafford’s Crooked River Lodge in Alanson. “With the log cabin theme, we wanted to keep the look woodsy,” Cupps said. Stafford’s Hospitality contracted Cupps to build the gas-fired bonfire space on the patio just off the hotel’s main lobby. It’s encircled with comfortable wooden chairs and concrete benches or side tables. The structure is solid concrete, with the exterior carved, sculpted and painted to resemble tree bark. “We wanted a space big enough to hold two or three rooms of people,” said David Marvin, Stafford’s vice president. That required the addition of a section to the patio, but the hotel management is pleased with the outcome, Marvin said. The bonfire pit at Crooked River Lodge is gas-burning, though that hardware is interchangeable with a natural wood fire setup, Cupps said. “This will get some little fractures, but won’t come apart at all. It weights 2,000 pounds,” he said while leaning over the structure. Inside the tree trunk replica bonfire pit is volcanic rock and imitation wood logs to simulate a burning fire. Hotel guests often gather around the blaze in the evening, either to simply relax or even roast marshmallows, Marvin said. And Cupps said he can build bonfire pits just like the one at the Alanson hotel, but much smaller to better fit in a home’s backyard. It’s an easier-to-achieve option for many local residents, he said. “The average homeowner can afford this,” Cupps said.
place of the hot tub InA recent project at Terry and Laurie
Marrs’ home on the northwest corner of Walloon Lake is by Robinson’s Landscaping and Nursery, of Boyne City. “We’ve had 15 years here and we added this on three years ago,” Laurie said. “We removed a hot tub that was there and replaced it with the outdoor kitchen and
bonfire pit. We use it every night in the fall. You can sit around that pit all night long.” The granite-topped exterior counters and built-in grill is adjacent to the patio-level bonfire pit, with its protective ring made from local fieldstone with a bluestone ledge. The setup is used far more often than the hot tub came to be, Laurie said. “It’s our social circle, as we call it,” she said, laughing. “I come out, put my feet up on that ledge, enjoy a good book and the peacefulness of the lake.” The fire pit burns natural wood, but features a gas fire starter device to eliminate the need for lighter fluid or twisted up newspapers to build up the flames. “We wanted the smell of the real burning wood,” Laurie said. And the couple doesn’t just use their firemaking spot on warm summer and cool autumn nights, but they also light their fire during winter months when they come to town to snowshoe and cross country ski. “We’ll come back from skiing on the lake, fire up this and maybe have a hot toddy or two,” Laurie said. “It’s our little bit of heaven.”
Fire up the hillside
Twelve years ago Drost oversaw what he said just may be his most impressive bonfire pit — more of a bonfire cave, really. He designed the outdoor fireplace to be built into a hillside alongside Lake Charlevoix, the crowning touch to an already impressive garden along the lake’s eastern shoreline. The structure is about 35 feet from the
lake’s high water mark. “It’s definitely in the green belt,” Drost said. A 4,000-pound glacier-deposited boulder creates the foundation for this impressive bonfire spot, built up with additional granite fieldstone and boulders. Contractors used an excavator to properly position the heavy rocks between the native cedar trees at the site. “We didn’t have to force the grade to make this work,” Drost said. “And it’s all in how you put the rocks together.” Perhaps the most useful aspect of the fireplace is the smokestack system built into the structure. Drost used a storm sewer drain cover made at EJ, formerly known as East Jordan Iron Works, to create a chimney at the top of the boulder fire pit. Smoke and heat rise up and nobody falls inside. “Everybody has a fire pit and it seems like the smoke is always in somebody’s face. This solves that problem,” Drost said. The space where the homeowner can build a natural, wood fire is lined with fire brick, while the structure’s exterior has a dozen years of vegetation grown up around it, including the hedge that hides the bonfire hearth from the garden above. The last little signature touch Drost left on the piece is a U.S. penny minted in 2000 — the year the project was completed — that is mounted on the front of the outdoor fireplace. It’s a finishing touch Drost often places somewhere hidden in his major landscaping projects, he said. HL HOMelife 21
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Awesome coffee 1/2 ounce Kahlua 1/2 ounce Bailey’s Irish Cream 1/2 ounce Christian Brothers brandy 1/2 ounce Grand Marnier orange liqueur and cognac Splash of Bacardi 151 rum Whipped cream Sugar for the rim Cinnamon shaker Sugar the rim of the coffee cup and add a splash of Bacardi 151. Light the liquid on fire and shake ground cinnamon onto the cup, causing the flame to burst. Then extinguish the flame, dump out the rum and add the other alcohol ingredients. fill the cup with coffee, stir and serve with whipped cream on top.
Cider martini 4 ounces apple cider 4 ounces Absolute vodka 2 ounces Christian Brothers brandy 2 ounces triple sec 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon
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Bartender Whitney Meeder, of Chandler’s in downtown Petoskey, recommends several autumn-themed cocktails to serve guests at an outdoor harvest party. The cider martini and the Huntress cocktail are relatively simple to make and the drinks will leave a big impression. Chandler’s Awesome coffee, however, is far more complicated to prepare, a flame-throwing show for your guests that isn’t just fun, but also tasty. 22
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Combine all ingredients into a shaker of crushed ice. Shake and pour into two martini glasses and garnish with an apple wedge and cinnamon stick to serve.
Huntress cocktail 1.5 ounces Maker’s Mark bourbon 1 ounce raspberry syrup, or other fruit flavor 1 ounce cream or milk Splash of triple sec Combine all ingredients into a shaker without ice. Shake and pour into a cocktail glass with ice cubes, then garnish with fruit slices and a mint leaf to serve.
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Reid Furniture Co. has been serving the Northern Michigan region since 1927. As we begin our fourth generation as a family-owned business, we understand the importance of dependable furnishings at reasonable prices. We offer products like Flexsteel, Coastal Living, Lloyd/Flanders, All Weather Wicker, Sealy and Stearns & Foster mattresses, and are confident they have the look and feel you want. One of our non-commissioned sales associates will be happy to provide a free, in-home design service. We want your experience with Reid Furniture to be easy and fun! Stop in to browse our different vignettes and we can help you create a new look for your home, cabin or condo. (231) 347-2942. 307 E. Mitchell St., Petoskey. www.ReidIndeed.com
Ginivito Flooring is your flooring and tile specialist located right near the entrance to Bay Harbor. Ginivito Flooring specializes in wood, carpet, stone and tile flooring. We also handle all aspects of tile work, from kitchens and baths to outdoor tile applications. Founded in 1997, the company has been involved in countless projects throughout the Midwest. We would love to be a part of your next project whether it be a remodel or new build ... with our experience we can help your vision come to fruition! Call Dan or Laurie today. (231) 348-8229. 3890 Charlevoix Ave., Petoskey. ginivitoflooring.com
Widing Custom Homes was established in May of 1976 and has overseen the building of some of Northern Michigan’s most exquisite custom homes. Custom home builder Roger Widing’s personal philosophy for his business is that “Each home is built with the same dedication and pride as if it were my own home.” The foundation of any successful business is its reputation. Widing Custom Homes has spent years building a reputation on quality and pride, which is evident in every aspect of the fine homes they build. From the initial planning phase, to material selection, to completion, Widing looks forward to the satisfaction of helping customers build the perfect home for their family. (231) 933-6680. www.widingcustomhomes.com
JPR Builders is a leading contractor in Northern Michigan, constantly striving to bring effective and efficient building practices to your project. We provide unsurpassed attention-to-detail, creative problem solving and workable solutions to all your building needs. We work closely with area designers and architects to maintain the highest standard in designs and function. Jim Russell brings with him 22 years of industry experience, building and remodeling homes in Northern Michigan, Park City, Utah, and Livingston, Mont., since 1989. Our motto is “envision, create, enjoy.” Visit our website, www.jprbuilders.com, to learn more about us. (231) 838-0494.
Wager Builders Inc., have been making houses GREEN for more than 20 years with the use of insulation and infrared scans. The right insulation will save money by keeping your home warm in the winter and cool in the summer, reducing yearly energy costs. It can also reduce damage caused by extreme weather conditions. It can reduce noise pollution and dust, making your home a quiet and clean place to relax. Wager Builders Inc. features two eco-friendly types of insulation: Nu-Wool Premium Cellulose Insulation and Demilec Spray Foam Insulation. A proud member of the Little Traverse Association of Home Builders. Carl D. Wager, 341 Alcan Drive, Petoskey. (231) 838-0220
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