Corner Fireplace in Lake Bungalow
Originally designed as a vacation and future retirement home, this craftsman style uses elements such as gabled dormers and simple gable roofs to invoke a bungalow style. With 4 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, this Cayuga Lake home features a mixture of timber frame elements with rich and detailed interior woodwork, prominently situated bluestone masonry fireplaces, many sitting and gathering areas that take advantage of both interior and outdoor spaces, and an open floor plan that uses wood trimmed archways, four-post columns on wood panel bases, and in-laid wood borders in the oak floors to create traditionally distinct living spaces such as the kitchen, dining room, and living room. The beautiful lake view is the focal point of these living areas; the archways that frame the dining room create a sense of movement as the archways continue to the exterior lake side wall, and the lakeside ceiling features a cathedral with skylights to bring in natural light as well as a timber frame truss with an arched center, framed with queen posts and with a stained tongue and groove wood ceiling with dropped wood trimmed breams.