“We didn’t want a log home, but we wanted something with some character to it,” says homeowner Ray Cardella. 

Perched on the point of a woody peninsula jutting out into the tannin-tinged waters of Sixth Lake in Inlet, New York, the Cardella’s hybrid timber home recalls the vernacular of the famed Adirondack Great Camps. Surrounded by forest preserve lands, the home, and accompanying boathouse nestle next to the shoreline in a symbiotic relationship. Read more about this Adirondack treasure here.