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at home
“I wanted an outdoor area.
This has lots of space,
the yard is green and lush
and an enormous
skylight lets us see it.”
— Erin Shafritz
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The Shafritz home will be one of five
included in this year’s Huntington
Woods Home Tour, celebrating its
25th anniversary. Sponsored by the
Huntington Woods Women’s League, the
tour begins at the Huntington Woods
Library. $20/advance; $25 day of. Hwwl.
org. For a 3D tour of the home, created
by photographer Brett Mountain, visit
plac3d.com/HWHT.
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ABOVE: A spectacular skylight ceil-
ing, original to the house, gives natu-
ral light to the kitchen — and, along
with the earthy brick walls, helps
blur the line that separates indoor
and outdoor. Shafritz designed the
cabinets and had them built by Ed
Starkey of ECS Cabinetry in Walled
Lake. Inspired by the black hood —
and against popular opinion — she
laminated them in black. “I knew all
my answers to what I wanted within
30 seconds,” she says. “Now, no one
can imagine it another color.” A slab
of gray-veined Illusion granite from
CIOT in Troy runs the expanse of the
island counter. RIGHT: A resale shop
painting and a pair of African beaded
dolls rest on the kitchen’s open
shelving.