Taking his cue from Lou DesRosiers' clean-lined style with an emphasis on wide-open-views that bring the outside in, Bob Schaerer filled the home with textures and
materials that could live organically with the magnificent views. Mahogany-toned ribbon sapelle is prominent, including the great room's fireplace, which is inserted
with bronze metal bands and surrounded with Indiana buff limestone, rounded to echo the wood and repeated in the art niches. "At this point, we were actually getting
pretty sick of sapelle," says Schaerer. For the oversize bi-level cocktail table, "I said, 'Where can I get beige wood?'" What Schaerer found was sycamore, which he had
bleached. Underneath, a Mondrian-patterned rug was crafted from five different types of broadloom carpet — each a unique texture and color — and bordered in leather.
Central in the window view, a second cocktail table, this one glass, is surrounded by swiveling chairs.

A beautifully thought-out
home is devoted to serenity,
comfort — and luring grown
children home for visits.

Lynne Konstantin I Design Writer
Beth Singer I Photographer

few years ago, a Jewish empty-nester business-
man and his wife bought a lakeside Bloomfield
Hills property resting on a slight knoll. He then
assembled what he calls his "dream team" to create a spec-
tacular, yet comfortably down-to-earth, retreat.
The reason: not for show or even to live so lavishly but
to lure his two daughters, who now live in New York City,
to visit as often as possible.
"I figured, 'Why should they summer in the
Hampton?"' says the homeowner. "I wanted them to
come to our Bloomfield Hills resort."
The entire home — from the landscaping to the fur-
niture to the placement of the recessed lighting — was
a completely premeditated collaboration, thanks to the
homeowner's foresight.
He brought in Louis DesRosiers, founder and president
of DesRosiers Architects, and builder Thomas Sebold
& Associates, both of Bloomfield Hills. He chose Greg

Bartelt's team at Vogue Furniture in Royal Oak for cus-
tom wood furniture and millwork and tapped interior
designer Bob Schaerer, president and owner of Schaerer
Architextural Interiors, also in Bloomfield Hills, whose
background in both architecture and interior design
makes him an asset to a partnership working from the
ground up.
And the feeling was mutual regarding the homeowner.
"He's one of those once-in-a-lifetime clients; says
Schaerer. "He has a high regard for people who have cre-
ative ability, and he just loves having the process going on
around him.
"He was constantly telling all of us, 'That's amazing!
You are the best!' as well as taking the entire team out for
lavish lunches. He is just the biggest-hearted guy."

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