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Hidden Bay housing: 164 cottages, every one of them single story

Hidden Bay carries the smallest and most affordable housing stock in Cicero, and it isn't close. Recorded residential floor area runs 728 to 3,024 square feet, most of the plat sits under 1,600, and gross assessed values run from $16,000 up to $269,500 with the middle of the distinct value distribution near $110,000. Compare Morse Overlook a mile away, where nothing assesses below $400,000. The architectural mix is 1970s and 1980s lake cottage, small ranch, seasonal cabin converted to year round use, and a small number of 2019 to 2024 rebuilds. No builder is on record. These lots were built one at a time by individual owners, which is exactly why nothing here repeats.

The floor count number is the sharpest single figure in the town: all 164 parcels are recorded at 1.0 story, making Hidden Bay the only wholly one story community in this file. Cicero as a whole is already the flattest of the five towns, with only 40.5 percent of its 1,954 single family parcels at two stories or more against 73.8 percent in Fishers, and Hidden Bay sits at the far end of that distribution. In practice that means the whole schedule is reachable from a step ladder, the install day is short, and there is no two story glass wall anywhere in the plat to build a specialty quote around.

Shallow depth, reflected cove light, and why Hidden Bay is usually an outside mount

Start with mounting depth, because in Hidden Bay it decides the product. Cottage construction from 1970 through the late 1980s was built light and built shallow, and many of these openings have had newer units fitted since, which eats whatever the original wood framing left. That pushes most of this plat to an outside mount. An outside mount is not a downgrade here, it's the right call: it covers the opening rather than sitting in it, and it hides an out of square edge instead of tracing it. On a 45 year old cottage that has settled on light framing, the edge is not straight. We three point measure width at header, middle and sill, and height at both jambs plus the center.

Where an inside mount does clear, disclose what it costs. Lutron publishes a 3/4 inch light gap per side on an inside mount Roller 20/64 and a factory deduction of 1/16 inch per side, and in a Hidden Bay cottage the room with the glass is usually the entire living space, so a bright line down both edges isn't something you can shut a door on. The cove elevation carries the second problem. A shorter fetch than the open basin still puts reflected light off the water onto the side of the house with the most glass, while fifty years of tree growth on the back lots gives the rear of that same house real shade. One house, two light conditions, two fabrics.

What we specify in Hidden Bay

The specification here follows from three counted facts: 164 single story houses, most of them under 1,600 square feet, and a mounting depth that usually will not take an inside mount. So the products that work are the ones that look right on an outside mount and don't need a deep pocket to sit in. Budget matters too. With the middle of the assessed distribution near $110,000, a Hidden Bay job is usually four to ten openings rather than forty, and the national custom range of $250 to $2,600 per window means the fabric choice, not the automation, is where the money goes. We'd rather put it into the cove elevation and keep the back bedrooms simple.

Getting around Hidden Bay

Hidden Bay sits on its own cove off Morse Reservoir, reached from Stringtown Pike, with Morse public access nearby. Eight streets carry the plat: Bluewater Dr, Cove, Sierra, Rosewood, Cottonwood, Timberline, Ravine and Sunset. Schools are simple in Cicero in a way they are nowhere else in Hamilton County, because Hamilton Heights School Corporation runs a single elementary school, a single middle school and one high school for the entire district, so there's no attendance boundary question to answer on an address here. The reservoir itself covers about 1,500 acres with roughly 32.5 miles of shoreline, and Hidden Bay's piece of it is a cove rather than the open basin, which is why the reflected load is real but not extreme.

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