The sumptuous log cabins in the towering pines and on the lake feature log-post beds, fireplaces and wet bars (house wines and cocktails included).
"We used to be building Buicks; now we're building Bentleys," said Joe Skiffington, a luxury developer and owner of Skiffington Homes, which specializes in lakefront homes with stone fireplaces, post-and-beam screened porches and elevators.
From its large stone fireplace, post-and-beam construction and barn-wood walls to decorative adornments like enormous sugar-pine cones and strings of dried magnolia leaves, the restaurant could pass as a rustic retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyo., or possibly Vermont.
They will include an 1825 Greek Revival cottage with original fireplaces and post-and-beam construction, and a garden and a wood-shingled, art-filled house built in 1896.
Place mirrors alongside fireplaces.
In the four years since Michele published that early photo of his fireplace, he has posted numerous other images taken inside the apartment he shares with Attili: the wall of miniatures; the kitchen, lavishly supplied with porcelain; the staircase that leads to a large rooftop patio, bypassing a reliquary-topped desk.
You have to wonder: How many homes had "The Christmas Cottage" hanging over the fireplace when Countrywide posted the foreclosure papers on the front door?
The two connected rooms on the north are similar with both having "plastered walls, a narrow beaded board for pegs or hooks, simple sliding shutters on the windows, beaded post casings, and brick diagonal fireplaces".
Most of the house, including foundation stones, wide-board wood floors, iron hardware, post-and-beam ceilings and five fireplaces, are original.
The design is cabinlike, with a pitched post-and-beam ceiling and a rock fireplace in the living room.
The main one, with posts and exposed beam ceilings, has a fireplace, soft lighting and cozy dining groupings.
