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Designer, Contractor Collaboration Curries Public’s Favor

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Photos: John Wooden, Petoskey, MI
This kitchen, designed by Joe R. Blasius and Jenny Pytleski, was the People’s Choice Winner of the first Parade of Homes for Charlevoix/Emmet County in northern Michigan.
The kitchen in this spec home features a rustic, yet elegant style, note Blasius and Pytleski, which appeals to both the vacationer looking for a home in woodsy northern Michigan and the year-round residents and their families looking for style and practicality. In the end, the home appealed to Blasius and his wife Cindy, now who live there.
Photos: John Wooden, Petoskey, MI
The kitchen features a host of stainless steel appliances, including the cooktop, which features a solid piece of pine wood with custom-made brackets that was cut by a local sawmill. It complements the Showplace Wood Products’ cherry cabinets, which feature sienna stain with an ebony glaze.
Photo: John Wooden, Petoskey, MI
The master bath features two separate 6'-long vanities with eight side drawers, one big center cabinet and wood tops for a furniture feel. The wood tops allow the Autumn slate in the shower and on the floor to take the spotlight, notes Blasius.

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Barbara Capella Loehr

By Barbara Capella Loehr

March 2007

HARBOR SPRINGS, MI —
Some homes are pure fantasy. Others are purely functional. Few strike the perfect balance. And fewer still do it in such a way that it still has broad appeal.

However, the home that was designed by Joe R. Blasius and Jenny Pytleski does just that. The spec home was a model of collaboration without compromising style or function.

Blasius and Pytleski built it to spark the imagination of the vacationer who buys property that captures the peaceful, woodsy, natural feel of this northern Michigan town and showcase the area’s distinct rustic style.

Simultaneously, it also needed to not only speak to the needs of a local family who would fall in love with the style and surroundings, but stand the test of time in terms of design, function and overall practicality.

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

Their efforts not only struck the right balance between both design mandates, but struck the right chord with the public who toured it as part of the first Parade of Homes for Charlevoix/Emmet County in northern Michigan – so much so that it was named the Parade of Homes People’s Choice Winner.

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Barbara Capella Loehr is Editor of KitchenBathDesign.com and writes the Kitchen & Bath Confidential blog.
Photo: Renaissance Studio Ltd.

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