Craftsman Home

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The Client planned to spend long stretches of time in this vacation home with their grown children and numerous grandchildren. They knew that the only way to truly enjoy all of this togetherness was to include spaces in the design where each family could have some measure of privacy. 

SDA worked with the Clients to create this 9,000 SF Craftsman-style home in which the families share a common great room, dining room, kitchen, pantry, game room, exercise room, and large screened, open, and seasonal porches. In order to accommodate all of the families, the home features four master bedroom suites. Upper level suites feature adjacent sleeping porches.

SDA worked with the Department of Environmental Services to site the home without disturbing the bordering wetlands.  The home is set back 300 feet from the lake with a series of stone paths, boardwalks, and forest trails spanning the distance from the house to the dock and beach. 

The interior of the home is designed to resemble a cabin with rough, horizontal, Norwegian Pine planking in the dining room, Red Oak and grass mat floors throughout, heavy timber beams, and a large fieldstone fireplace.  The home is clad in Red Cedar shingles with an exterior wainscoting of locally-hewn granite.