29 michigandesign.com The word “cottage” likely evokes images of small, often ramshackle structures with hodgepodge furniture and nauticalthemed clichés. But there was a time during the Gilded Age when the mansions of early Grosse Pointe and Newport, R.I., were referred to as summer cottages. They were spacious vacation homes where financially comfortable families could spend languid, carefree days sailing, swimming, and sunning. “Cottage” was not used so much to describe the size of a home as a state of mind. “Cottage” was not used so much to describe the size of a home as a state of mind. A cottage was simply a luxurious escape from the frenetic pace of the city, a place to “get away from it all.” It was in that spirit that Kevin Serba and his assistant, John Rattray, of Birmingham-based Serba Interiors, approached designing a 6,800-squarefoot cottage overlooking Little Traverse Relaxing on the extensive porch affords an ideal view for watching the sunlight sparkle on Little Traverse Bay (off Lake Michigan), as well as spectacular sunsets. Wicker furniture seat cushion fabric: PINDLER, SUITE 69
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