Where the Home Meets the Lake: A Lakefront Exterior Remodel
From indoors to outdoors to onboard, Lotus Lake Exterior opens fluidly between interior and exterior spaces. Expansive rear-facing windows frame stunning lake views from nearly every room, while a striking, cohesive exterior easily guides guests to the heart of the home.
Designed for Lakefront Living and Outdoor Entertaining
Built for boating, this lakefront home blends striking modern style with highly customized design elements for the avid outdoor entertainer. An expansive back deck and screened porch, oversized windows, and rear boat storage, garage, and driveway carefully craft and leverage the blueprint of this home around its natural surroundings. A large retractable screen wall joins the covered porch to the back deck, providing a connected, yet distinct, gathering space and transition from indoors to outdoors.
Before the Exterior Remodel: A House Without Architectural Identity
Prior to TreHus’ renovations, this Lotus Lake home had received several iterations of remodeling and touch-ups, which left the homeowners with a mismatched exterior that severed the connection from the home’s updated interior and surrounding natural beauty. Joe Dean, Designer + Project Manager, explains that the home’s exterior “lacked a particular architectural style,” leaving the homeowners with a house that felt disjointed and “provided no visual interest or cue to the updated interior.”
A Cohesive Modern Exterior That Embraces Site, Light, and Water
Sleek and modern with touches of nautical white-shiplap reminiscent siding and warm wooden elements, this home’s new exterior bridges design gaps for a connectedness within the home and its surrounding natural elements. “The materials and coloration add textural contrast to the simple, but large, original exterior design form,” explains Joe. In addition to balancing out the wide and low roof forms of the existing home, the home’s strong geometrical design now points guests to areas of importance. “These changes provide a visual sense of presence to enhance and direct visitors to the entry in the front of the home and outdoor entertaining spaces in the back, all while opening the home to expansive lake views,” says Joe. Every detail, down to the glass garage doors and close to invisible black iron cable railing, was thoughtfully designed to bring more light and views of the water into this striking Lotus Lake home.
