Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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56 Real Estate terms, an embarrassment of riches might be defined as having proximity to both the water and the mountains. This is what one family found on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee, a magnet for warm-weather boaters and fishermen that also attracts winter sports enthusiasts bound for nearby Gunstock, Loon, and Waterville Valley. While the location was everything the family dreamed of, the house didn't match up. At first, in the short term, anyway, it didn't matter. "The homeown- ers wanted to enjoy the remaining ski seasons with their high school- and junior high-aged kids [before they went off to college]," explains project architect Katy Finkenzeller of SV Design, the firm that had previously worked on this client's primary, North Shore residence. So, the initial plan was to postpone a full-scale remodel in favor of a small renovation of the existing spaces—just enough to make it functional for the family and the way they lived. But when the demolition by Jason Drouin Custom Homes opened up a Pandora's Box of thorny issues, a plan B was hastily called for. "Where we thought we could easily rework, we couldn't," says Finkenzeller. The interiors are kept rustic with exposed wood, timbers, and interior barn doors.