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Waterfront Home is Made In The Shade BY MARCIA BIGGS When a St. Petersburg couple decided it was time to move to a waterfront home, they faced a quandary. Their Crescent Lake home had been remodeled only a few years prior, and they loved it. They had worked with home designer/builder Keith Beaver of Renovative Construction to create a comfortable enclave exactly to their liking. It had all the features and furnishings they wanted … except the waterfront access and view. When they decided to move to Treasure Island, they found a piece of property on the intracoastal that they loved -- an older home with an amazing view. They enlisted Beaver once again to be their designer and builder. “The house, unfortunately, was in pretty bad shape,” he said. “After some back and forth, we decided to demo it and build the new house.”
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Beaver was just the person to do it. Working on a second home for his former clients made it easy … their sense of style and furniture remained the same. He knew they loved their collection of colorful glass and local art, so they would need a showplace. The homeowners decided to mimic the Crescent Lake home as much as possible, with an open interior concept design that took advantage of the views. The 2,545-square-foot fourbedroom, two bath home was built of hurricanewithstanding concrete, with solar panels on the roof and other energysaving in mind. The owners loved the modern/minimalist components and clean styling that Beaver had created in the first home – epoxy concrete and tile floors, cable railings on the balconies, windows and
