{"id":10400,"date":"2015-02-13T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=10400"},"modified":"2015-02-13T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:23:32","slug":"lake-lodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/lake-lodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake & Lodge"},"content":{"rendered":"

February\/March 2015 | view this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Discovering the ‘new rustic.’<\/h3>\n

By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n

\"Lake-&-Lodge-Buy\"<\/a>WHAT IF \u201cLake & Lodge\u201d coffee, the dark, earthy brew by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, were not<\/em> inspired by lakes and lodges? Instead, what if a magic sip of the deep, rich java is inspiring a new demographic to create getaways on Maine\u2019s lakes and lodges? After all, aren\u2019t we the general contractors of our fantasies?<\/p>\n

Who could have imagined back in September that L.L. Bean boots would make such a splash during the holidays, with demand so high the classic footwear was scalped at a 300-percent markup by Christmas Eve? Was this exclamation point in demand just a new group of latecomers \u2018plagiarizing the authentic,\u2019 or has a reappreciation for rustic truly touched down as a genuine need to get real (or at least sample reality)?<\/p>\n

Whatever it is, real-estate brokers are sensing and stalking \u2018the new rustic.\u2019 A fresh crowd of buyers is rifling through the Maine Multiple Listings in search of the dreamiest lodges in which to put their Bean Boots and perhaps a faux moosehead. Here are three to consider.<\/p>\n

Arden House in Boothbay is a carillon of rustic bells and whistles. First, amid showy interiors, some of which excite as architecture, it features rough-hewn, reclaimed wood in a cathedral of posts and beams. It has a \u201cprominent Boston architect, Ed Hodges, managing principal at DiMella Shaffer,\u201d according to listing agent Kim Latour, who\u2019s offering it for $2.845M. \u201cThe landscape architect is Kerry Lewis of Newton.\u201d For site location, how about \u201cfour acres of land with towering pine trees and trails meandering along the 1,300 feet of shelter waterfront and granite ledges on Townsend Gut.\u201d Your rustic stone and timber retreat, with \u201ctwo-car heated garage\u2026four-plus light-filled bedrooms\u2026large gourmet kitchen, and first floor master bedroom suite\u201d has its own private dock. Behold the new rustic: something that will do in a scrape.<\/p>\n

Ocean Point on scenic Linekin Bay is the windswept setting for a post & beam getaway on Elbow Road that fits new rustic to a T. \u201cThere\u2019s 50 feet of frontage, a dock, and a float,\u201d says Marion Mullander of Tindal & Callahan Real Estate. The trick of balancing desire and reality is, \u201cit has to be rustic and not rustic\u201d at once. \u201cIt\u2019s new [2002],\u201d with three bedrooms and 3.5 baths. \u201cYou have privacy, security, it\u2019s roomy, it has a gourmet kitchen\u2013all custom, stainless everything.\u201d Slide out to your deck from your first-floor bedroom and see how easy roughing it can be. Or warm yourself to a romantic fire from the enormous stone fireplace below the woodsy cathedral ceiling, with interior logs for additional charm. Listing price is $1.55M, with taxes at $7,609.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s not a new rustic imperative, it doesn\u2019t hurt if your retreat can boast of adorable wooden bear cubs climbing the porch posts as you approach 24 Perley Mills Station Road in Denmark, northwest of Sebago Lake. Built in 2006, this 10-room, 4,489-square-foot lodge backs up to bright blue, 79-acre Perley Pond\u2013a plashy idyll with the kind of isolate beauty Henry David Thoreau calls \u201cthe eye of the world.\u201d What\u2019s special here, is a screen of evergreens gives the property a theatrical quality that makes the owners the stars. Ready with your espirit de l\u2019escalier<\/em>? \u201cThe mammoth stairway going to the second floor is fashioned from exquisitely stripped and varnished logs, made more perfect for their imperfections,\u201d according to Ana Paprocki of the David Banks Team at RE\/MAX By The Bay. The moosehead on the stone fireplace is so mood-enhancing you expect him to start talking. Another nice touch: The warm color palate dances into the beadboard kitchen and bay windows. Talk about luxurious, campy fun. Listed at $1M, the taxes are $5,511.<\/p>\n

As for whatever happened to the old<\/em> rustic, you don\u2019t even want to know. Example: Young Frank Sinatra was discovered singing at The Rustic Cabin, a nightclub perched on the edge of the Englewood Cliffs palisades over the Hudson River, back when this sort of stuff was all the rage. (In those days, there were different sorts of security systems available.) Now it\u2019s the Rustic Cabin Exxon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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