Lake side of the two story cottage, with a covered deck upstairs, a covered porch below and a stone patio in front
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Lakefront stone cottage

Lakefront cottage·Gut renovation·Second story addition

Where
Lakefront site
Building
One-and-a-half-story family cottage with seven-foot ceilings
Work
Gutted and rebuilt as a two-story cottage with four bedrooms, covered decks, and a new garage and breezeway. Original stone veneer kept
Service
Lake houses and residential

The stone stayed. Almost everything else changed.

The cottage had been in an Ohio family for a long time, and it had a view it never used. A story and a half tall with seven foot ceilings on both floors, it was small and cramped, and it turned its back on some of the best lakefront on the shore. Now it had to hold grandchildren as well as children and guests.

The ground floor stone veneer was kept. Most of both floors behind it was gutted and reconfigured into a full two story cottage, with covered decks outside the main rooms so the lake is part of the house in every season.

Four full bedrooms, bay windows toward the water, and a new garage joined to the house by a breezeway round it out. It reads as a new cottage on the old stone base, which is what it is.

You guys really knocked it out of the park!
The owner
Side of the cottage with the kept stone veneer below new shingle siding, and a stone path leading toward the lake
The finished cottage

Outside, from the street to the lake.

Two story lake cottage with grey shingle siding and a stone ground floor, joined to a garage by a covered breezeway
Covered breezeway entry with a round window, between the stone ground floor of the cottage and the garage
Side of the cottage with the kept stone veneer below new shingle siding, and a stone path leading toward the lake
Lake side of the two story cottage, with a covered deck upstairs, a covered porch below and a stone patio in front
Covered porch with a wood plank ceiling, wicker seating and a stone pizza oven, outside the living room sliders
Dining table and seating on the stone patio beside the cottage's covered porch
Stone patio with a curved seat wall and outdoor seating, looking out to the lake
Inside

The lake, straight through from the front door.

Living room with the stairs to one side and sliding doors straight ahead, opening to the porch and the lake
Living room open to the dining area and kitchen beyond, with no wall between them
White kitchen with woven pendant lights, open at the far end to the dining and living rooms
Second sitting room with a leather sofa and a window seat, a quiet corner away from the main living room
Vaulted main bedroom upstairs with blue walls and its own door out to the deck
Bedroom with two white iron beds under a wood plank ceiling
Bathroom with a glass walk-in shower and a wood vanity
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