Tokyo Meets Harbor Springs in This Jewel Box Home
North meets east in this stunning Northern Michigan home on a forested bluff along Lake Michigan, north of Harbor Springs. Featured in the February/March 2021 issue of Northern Home & Cottage. After living four years in Tokyo, Doug and Debbie Brown developed a...
Forever Groovy: A Northern Michigan Chalet with ’60s Style
Northern Michigan Home & Cottage: Why not live in a perpetual 1960s vacation?
Northern Michigan Home Ideas for Creative Powder Rooms
Discover how a few key design elements can turn this diminutive room into a big style statement in this display of Northern Michigan powder rooms. Gracious Gray Design // Gemma Parker DesignLocation // Harbor SpringsPhoto by Werner Straube “The goal for this powder...
Top Interior Home Colors for 2021 Bring Strength and Hope
With 2020 in the rearview mirror, trends for home colors in 2021 are turning toward the light, with strength and hope. The pigment gurus at Pantone have come out with their colors of the year (two this year for only the second time ever): Ultimate Gray and...
A Step-By-Step Northern Michigan Home Building Guide
PAID CONTENT How one design expert intuitively channels client dreams into reality. When Bradley J. Butcher, AIA, Senior Project Manager of Sidock Group, sits down with a potential client, there’s no book of plans or past projects to flip through, no computer...
17 Cool Houseplants at Darling Botanical for Medium, Low Light
Dense foliage, rich colors and ornate patterns greet visitors as they walk through the door at Darling Botanical. The flourishing jungle-like shop in Traverse City’s Warehouse MRKT teems with plants—towering fiddle leaf figs, wispy ferns, spiky cacti. Owner and...
Five Functional and Beautiful Northern Michigan Home Bars
Today’s home bars are drastically different from your grandfather’s cabinet in the den, which might have held a few bottles of spirits and a lone jar of maraschino cherries. These days, home bars combine beauty with functionality. For proof, look no...