Settle Back into Breezy Summer Style with Northern Home & Cottage
Discover how sweet summer living can be in Northern Michigan with the July/August 2007 issue of Northern Home & Cottage. Make the most of summer by dipping into the easy, breezy style ideas in the July/August 2007 issue of Northern Home & Cottage, a supplement to Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. Grab a copy at the newsstand or visit the free online edition at northernhomeandcottage.com to read the full issue. This month's featured homes and the stories behind them include a fresh revival for a 1930's Charlevoix Dutch colonial home; the remarkable "Symphonic House," designed around the sounds of the Leelanau shoreline; a beautiful, laid-back Bay Harbor Victorian with plenty of room for barefoot fun. Plus, find a cool summer cocktail recipe from domestic diva Katie Brown, style essentials for docks, eco-conscious building products, a 20-page real estate guide and more.
Traverse City, Mich. (PRWEB) July 2, 2007 -- Make the most of summer by dipping into the easy, breezy style ideas in the July/August 2007 issue of Northern Home & Cottage, a supplement to Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. Grab a copy at the newsstand or visit the free online edition at northernhomeandcottage.com to read the full issue. This month's featured homes and the stories behind them include a fresh revival for a 1930's Charlevoix Dutch colonial home; the remarkable "Symphonic House," designed around the sounds of the Leelanau shoreline; a beautiful, laid-back Bay Harbor Victorian with plenty of room for barefoot fun. Plus, find a cool summer cocktail recipe from domestic diva Katie Brown, style essentials for docks, eco-conscious building products, a 20-page real estate guide and more.
"Open this issue and relish in lush meditations on summer living," says Elizabeth Edwards, managing editor of Northern Home & Cottage. "Of course, this issue is best read when you're seated close to the water. Pull up a beach chair or settle back in that lounger on your dock and dig in."
This month features:
Colonial Revived
A West Coast family bought this Charlevoix, Michigan, Dutch colonial house as a summer cottage, loving its essence if not all its particulars. Two New York designers were called in to reinvent the home; our story shares the stunning results along with the designers' pointers on melding period style with personal taste.
The Symphonic House
Suttons Bay, Michigan, architect David Hanawalt made music and light integral to the design of this home perched on a windswept Leelanau bluff. The living room is a cello; the stairwell is a harp. Peek inside and pick up some tips on how to harmonize your own home.
The Barefoot Victorian
The Wynne family's four children and their neighborhood pals make sure life at this Bay Harbor, Michigan, Victorian cottage stays vibrant. Be inspired by the Wynnes' laid-back summer style, and check out the family's "Up North Favorites" for their picks on the best local dining, shopping, sweet treats and July Fourth events.
In every issue:
- Editor's Note: Dock Meditations
Managing editor Elizabeth Edwards muses on the serene state of being that can be achieved while sitting on a dock.
- Northern Style: Shoreside elegance starts with nature's coolest neutrals.
Accessories and décor that marry elegant style with a beachy feel. Katie Brown's recipe for a cool and creamy grasshopper cocktail. Earth-friendly building products, from flooring to plaster to paint.
- Pulling It Together: Dock around the clock.
Cool essentials for your dock, including silky, sustainable bamboo beach towels and a slick grill by Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet that'll elevate meal-making into an art form. Plus, the latest ShoreStation products, modular dock systems and sweet loungers.
- Simple Pleasures: Garden monograms.
Setting your table for an elegant occasion? Look no further than your garden (or your local farmers market) for a fresh take on the traditional filigreed family initial.
- Reflections on Home: "Simple Cabin, Simple Memories"
Allegan-based writer Judy Perham shares memories from the sweet days she spent as a child summering in a simple log cabin on Spider Lake.
A vintage photograph circa 1910 captures a Mackinac Island memory among the lilacs.
Northern Home & Cottage Resources
Love what you see in our homes? Here's how to find the goods.
Special real estate section:
Northern Home & Cottage's Northern Real Estate Guide
Find your Northern dream home -- this is your resource for buying and selling Northern Michigan real estate.
Northern Home & Cottage, produced by the same award-winning editorial team as Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine, is a guide for the way to live Up North. Each issue offers ideas, insight and inspiration for Northern living at a home or cottage -- from dreaming to designing to decorating, with smart tips on gardening and entertaining, green ideas for eco-conscious living, resource guides and more. Our free online edition links readers to the places, products and resources that make living in Northern Michigan so special. Click for more at northernhomeandcottage.com.
About Prism Publications, Inc.
Prism Publications Inc, founded in 1981 by Deborah Wyatt Fellows, publishes Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine, Northern Home & Cottage, and Destination Northern Michigan, a Northern Michigan travel guide, in addition to several other print and online publications. Traverse and its staff have won more than a dozen national and international awards for excellence, including most recently a 2007 silver award for general excellence from the City and Regional Magazine Association. Prism has also published Reflections of a Life Up North, a coffee-table book of stunning photography from Traverse paired with a collection of Fellows' columns, which was reprinted in June 2007. Prism Publications is also a proud sponsor of the National Cherry Festival's Cherries D'Vine event on July 8, 2007. The privately held company is headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan. For more information, visit traversemagazine.com or call Traverse Magazine at (231) 941-8174.
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