By K. Michelle Moran
C & G Staff Writer [click here for full story]
GROSSE POINTE FARMS — They all had their own creative visions and worked independently of each other, but the nearly two dozen designers and design firms that worked on the Junior League of Detroit Designers’ Show House knew enough not to upstage Mother Nature.
Whether incorporating soothing shades of blue and green or embracing leaf and bird motifs, the natural world comes alive inside the walls of this magnificent lakefront home, and designers were quick to let the home’s many windows — with their views of the gardens and Lake St. Clair — take center stage.
The 2010 biennial Show House, a nearly 6,500-square-foot, stone-clad French Normandy-style home built in 1928, is located at 78 Lake Shore in the Farms and is open for tours May 1-16. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit JLD, whose programs include combating childhood illiteracy in Detroit.