In detail
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Photography: Ashley Avila Photography
Eastmark Construction
There is a relish-worthy amount of exterior details found at a spot where two gambrel roofs meet on a newly built custom home in Glen Arbor, Michigan. A chimney made of warm, Kentucky fieldstone surfaces from powder-blue, shingle siding and is neighbored by a precisely proportioned transom window, copper gutter system, and sturdy cornice work on one side, and an upper level balcony that is hemmed by a custom lattice work balustrade crafted by hand, on-site, on the other. The combination tucks comfortably around a grassy terrace that is accessible from glass, French doors underneath. This is only a small exterior segment of the 7,500-square-foot home, which was built on the shores of Glen Arbor’s Big Glen Lake. Yet, its complexity and pristine execution set the stage the wonderfully detail-oriented work that comprise the rest of the exterior, interior, and special places in between. The fact that the home is situated on a narrow—and rare—parcel on the Big Glen Lake lakeshore, required a complex arrangement of features that would make the most of the surroundings and the homeowners’ goals, in effect packing the structure with carefully orchestrated interactions between material, shape, and function. It was a challenge readily accepted by Eastmark Construction, a team of custom home builders and master craftspeople, who have a reputation in northern Michigan for executing similar feats with ease, skillful and regional expertise, and a love for instilling each stage of the construction process with genuine quality and care. “We do primarily lakefront and resort property homes and we’re known for a higher-end, more topof-the-line fit-and-finish, and working on projects where there’s an intense focus on the management of the project with the customer and architects,” said Eric Darooge, president and senior project manager at Eastmark Construction.
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THE CUSTOM BUILD
