A Fuller
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STORY BY LONNA UPTON & PHOTOS BY KENNETH BOONE
Alexander City natives Steve and Sharon Fuller bought their Lake Martin cabin on a breezy point in Jackson’s Gap before they were married in 1980. With just four rooms and a small screened porch, the cabin had to grow as the family grew. Only a few years in Atlanta took them away from their cabin, but they returned to the place where they started and began filling the home with a lifetime of memories. “Our first renovation idea began when we came home from our honeymoon and found that the roof was leaking just a few inches from our brand new couch. We both went up on the roof to look at the problem and said, ‘Wow! Look at this view. One day let’s build up.’ And that’s what we did,” Sharon Fuller said. Steve, now a partner in Lake Martin Signature Construction, handled all the renovations and additions to the home over the past 41 years. Their return from Atlanta with two small children precipitated the upstairs addition of four bedrooms, two baths and a laundry room. The two bedrooms downstairs became guest rooms. A few years later, a new two-story three-car garage added 1,500 square feet for a game room, two bedrooms, another bathroom and a full kitchen, as well as the ground level garage space. Every window throughout the home has a lake view. “With the most recent changes, in the last five years, I decided to just go lake-casual, and we love it. My friend, Jamie Dark, helped me pick out the colors for the remodel. I have mixed in new furniture with antique furniture from our families – some original and some I had painted. My grandmother’s bed from the late 1800s and her chandelier are still in two of the bedrooms,” she said. The cabin’s coffered wooden ceiling and shiplap walls remain in the living room, all painted a creamy white. The room centers on a large stone fireplace while windows provide a view of the lawn and the lake in two directions. Steve built the coffee table from an old door from the original cabin. Cozy sofas and an antique buffet, painted by Robin Holcombe at Half Moon Interiors and Market, blend with the soft palette selected for the island and the cabinets. A round game table in the corner gives everyone a lake view. Steve Fuller’s ideas for the kitchen included a square island
46 LAKE
JUNE 2021
The covered deck offers 1,800 square feet of outdoor living space
