Meet Your New Home
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Every effort has been made to save the beautiful
trees and stay
close to nature: no lawns, just natural growth, ferns, blueberry
bushes, with limestone walkways and gravel road.
Carefully planned lighting is low, and along
the walkways. The 22
homesites have shade and lovely, delicate filtered sunlight.
You can
hang your hat and enjoy the peace and natural setting.
Cottage roofs have large overhangs to protect
from sun and rain.
Outbuildings share the same look as the house and have outdoor
showers,
open to the sky. The homes have oversized screen
porches and low decks that blend into the terrain.
Timeless limestone is used for walkways and
entrances. Traditional
board and batten siding gives a timeless feeling. There is plenty
of
shade, but oversize windows and skylights keep interiors bright.
Plantings are natural to the area, with no lawns permitted (which
means
no grass to cut and more time for what you come to the woods
for.)
Just sit back and enjoy your time away from
it all.
Walden is maintenance free and the homes are
built to save energy, with
thicker walls and more insulation to keep it cool in the summer
and
warm in the winter at less cost.
The homes were designed to be close to
the earth, with a gradual grade
to the french doors that open on the living space. The name
Walden
simply implies a quiet, peaceful place where people can
live and enjoy the woods and surroundings. Simpler, more
manageable homes is a trend, a return to the past leaving plenty
of time to live the lives we seek.
Meet The
Developer Karen…
and why Walden is the place to be...
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Karen
Conner has loved New Buffalo and Harbor Country for a long time. In fact, she
was instrumental in developing the name and concept of Harbor Country. She was
born, grew up and raised her own family in the area before embarking on a public
relations career that included being Special Events Director in Chicago and
creating the festival tradition in Chicago that has become famous
world-wide.
She knows
how to make her dreams come true, and one of those early dreams was the
renaissance of New Buffalo and Harbor Country. Thirty years ago she saw the
potential of redeveloping New Buffalo to its historical role, and that role is
taking shape today.
She
led
the inspiration to create Walden so that it delivered
comfortable traditional cottages, quality built, close to the earth and easy
to manage and care for, in the last untouched heavily wooded site in New
Buffalo.
This has
been her consistent vision of tasteful quality since she returned to Harbor
Country in 1982. She began her real estate career by purchasing traditional
cottages in Union Pier and the surrounding area and bringing them back to their
original idea. Along with partners, she also built cottages that replicated the
1920s look, in the spirit of the Sears Cottages that sprang up along the beach
areas, simple, elegant and easy to maintain, leaving plenty of time to live the
lives we come to the country to enjoy.
Karen
continued to sell property, but always building new cottages that had a look
as if they had been there forever, representing the simplicity that people
loved
during long summers on the shores of Lake Michigan. She has had 22 years of
experience in real estate and building in the Harbor Country area and her
reputation for taste, quality and integrity is unsurpassed.
We are
pleased to let you know that you can be part of this vision, the lots are going
fast!
" I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to
teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
~ Henry David Thoreau