Exterior & Grounds
A low, gray-shingled volume with a dramatically angled roofline, set right at the water's edge with its own boathouse and dock
A modest footprint on the outside gives way to a full two-story atrium at the center — a dining room ringed by a mezzanine gallery, a glass elevator rising through the middle of it, and paintings lining every wall. A stone water feature carves the inn's name into the entry, and down at the water a matching boathouse holds the dock and the catamaran.
Lakeside Inn keeps a deceptively simple exterior — a low, gray-shingled volume with a sharply angled roofline hugging the shoreline — and saves its real statement for the inside. The whole building organizes around a two-story atrium: a dining room at ground level, a mezzanine gallery ringing it above, and a glass cylindrical elevator rising straight through the center of the space. Paintings line every wall of that gallery, turning the trip up to the guest rooms into a walk through a small private collection rather than a hallway.
Guests arrive past a stone water feature with the inn's name carved directly into it, through a foyer built around its own circular fountain, and into a sequence of connected public rooms — a sitting room with a built-in fireplace and TV, a bar looking straight out at the lake, and reception tucked behind a wall of glazing with its own small library. Down at the water, a matching boathouse holds the dock, the catamaran, and a pair of jet skis, while guest suites upstairs keep things simple and comfortable: a desk, a TV, and a full wall of glass facing the lake and mountains beyond.