When the weather’s fine, this gazebo becomes the outdoor great room of a white cedar log home in rural Indiana. Even when the air’s a little nippy, a fire in the big stone fireplace will take the chill off so the owners can enjoy their wooded acreage.
Designed by Town & Country Cedar Homes, the designer/fabricator of the 5,000-square-foot main house, the gazebo contains all the luxuries necessary for fine outdoor living while evoking the rustic simplicity of a classic national park shelter. Within its stone and peeled log confines are an outdoor kitchen with gas grill and rotisserie, sink, and refrigerator. For the owners’ dining pleasure, the space is wired for audio and lighted with an antlered chandelier.
The challenge in this little project, says Doug Tankersley, project manager for David Perrin Builders, was to make the gazebo look like it had always been there. Actually, the fieldstone for the fireplace and column bases came off the owners’ property, so it really had always been there. He kept the modern plumbing and wiring out of sight by concealing them within the roof’s structural system. The peeled logs and roof system match those of the main house and, Tankersley says, are assembled the same way. Builder: David Perrin Builders, Richland, Mich.; Designer/fabricator: Town & Country Cedar Homes, Petoskey, Mich.; Landscape architect: Drost Landscape, Alanson, Mich.; Photographer: Roger Wade Studios.
