Good Neighbors
A new "lodge style" house in the midcoast respects its lakeside setting.
By Andrew Vietze, photography by Brian Vanden Brink
he setting sounds ideal: six acres on a midcoast lake, set on a peninsula with a view of the mountains. It sounded so good, in fact, that the owners, a couple from outside Boston, purchased the property sight-unseen, trusting the instincts of their Realtor. A psychologist and a real estate developer with two teenage kids, the pair had been visiting this big lake for years -- he's an avid fisherman -- and they knew it was where they wanted to build.Beautiful as the site may be, though, with its quiet woodlands, babbling brook, and lawns sloping down to the water, it posed some serious challenges.
