DESCRIPTION
Lady of the Lake " is a charming and comfortable circa 1900 lakefront home with water views from every room.  Facing south on 70` of clear, deep West Caroga Lake frontage, with a view of the vintage Ferris wheel and carousel of Sherman’s 1920`s amusement park in the eastern distance, the lovingly restored three-season house is distinctively furnished with cottage antiques by designer/builder owners whose other home is featured in the international best-seller design book, California Interiors.

The light-filled first floor features an open-plan living room and eat-in kitchen with Brazilian cherry hardwood floors, painted pine ceilings, and wainscoted walls. With its congenial open floor plan, you can cook in the kitchen while laughing with friends in the living room, enjoying the fire, watching a movie or boats on the lake. Yet the thoughtful layout provides surprisingly private nooks for relaxing with a good book or a quiet conversation.

A large, two-level screened porch spans the front of the house just above the lake, creating a spectacular waterfront “great room” with areas for dining, games and sleeping as well as relaxing in rockers, a glider and hammock.

The living room’s deep sofa, cushioned daybed, wicker chairs, and rockers face a stone-backed woodstove-fireplace and an entertainment armoire with LCD flat-screen TV with basic cable service, VCR, DVD and stereo with attachment for your I-pod or MP3 player to the indoor, porch and outdoor speakers. There’s a piano, a vintage dollhouse, and a collection of regional guidebooks, cookbooks, children’s books, fiction and poetry. Firewood, videos, CD’s, games and art supplies are provided. There’s high-speed WI-FI internet for your laptop computer.

A farmhouse sink and decorative wood cookstove (for display and storage only) enhance the vintage charm of the gourmet kitchen, modernly equipped with butcherblock counters, dishwasher, self-cleaning electric range, refrigerator with icemaker, filtered water, microwave, and all small appliances. It’s well-stocked with good pots, sharp knives, handy gadgets, spices, condiments, cleaning supplies, attractive tableware and serving pieces. The kitchen’s round vintage dining table seats 4-6, with tables for 4 and 8 on the porch. There’s a picnic table on the deck, with a gas patio heater to take the chill off late-season evenings. An "outdoor kitchen" in the former ice house has a full-size refrigerator, counter with sink and filtered water, clothes dryer, and shelving for picnic and grill supplies, next to the brick patio with gas grill with side burner.

The bright, mirrored, first floor bathroom has ample storage and a subway-tiled tub with shower. The sink with filtered water is set in an antique dresser with a secret treasure drawer for kids to find. An outdoor hot shower with views of lake and woods is large enough for two, with double showerheads – a “rain” and a hand-held.

Three upstairs bedrooms include a master bedroom with 5 lake-view windows, king bed and sitting area; a bedroom with a queen bed; and one with two double beds. There are also twin-long daybeds in the living room and entrance sunroom, and a double bed with air mattress on the porch. The beds have firm mattresses, down duvets, hand-quilted coverlets, fleece and wool blankets and a choice of pillows. You provide sheets, pillowcases and towels.