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Morse Overlook housing: 50 custom houses across 33 years

Morse Overlook records 15 distinct construction years spread across 33: 1989, then 1997 through 2005, then 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2022. Fifty houses at roughly a house and a half a year, individually built, which is why non repeating shapes are the norm here rather than the exception. The styles run late-1990s and 2000s estate traditional, Georgian and French eclectic, then a newer group of 2015 to 2022 custom transitional and modern lake houses. No builder is on record, which fits the pattern: this was never a production program, it was fifty separate decisions made a year or two apart.

Thirty two of the 50 parcels are recorded at 2.0 stories, 64 percent, and the balance are single story and 1.5-story walk out plans that use the bluff grade. That walk out condition matters at the measure, because a lower level opening to grade on the water side carries full height glass at a level the plan calls a basement. Floor area from 2,605 to 11,673 square feet also means the spread inside one plat is enormous: a 2,600 square foot house here might carry 25 openings while an 11,000 square foot house carries 85, and both are Morse Overlook addresses on the same two streets.

Reach, weight and west light: what makes a Morse Overlook measure long

The water elevation here takes direct afternoon sun and a reflected component off the surface below, with no structure and no canopy in front of it. Cicero sits on the northeast shore of Morse Reservoir, which puts about 1,500 acres of water to the south and west of the town, and an Overlook window looks down across it. NFRC attributes 40 to 60 percent of fading damage to ultraviolet, so on a room with wood floors and a rug in front of that glass, a solar fabric slows the damage rather than stopping it. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling. A 3 percent openness fabric is usually the right trade on this elevation.

Then the mechanics. Wood casing with generous depth means an inside mount is available on most openings, and on a mulled assembly that's a real advantage: separate shades in each unit, with the mullion carrying the divide, look better than one oversize shade fighting to span the run. Lutron notes that shades 120 inches and taller, or at a 4:1 height to width ratio, get larger light gaps than the published 3/4 inch per side, and a two story foyer wall is exactly that geometry. Squareness spans 3 to 36 years across this plat, and the widest mulled openings deviate most, so those get a three point measure treated as a real reading rather than a formality.

What we specify in Morse Overlook

On a 40 to 85 opening house the specification splits by room rather than running one product through the place. The water elevation gets a solar fabric chosen for glare and fade. The formal rooms with deep wood casing get something that respects the trim. The two story foyer and stair get an operating decision made before a fabric decision. National pricing puts custom shades at $250 to $2,600 per window, motorized at $300 to $1,500 per window installed and drapery at $300 to $4,000 per window, which on a house this size makes the room by room split a budget tool rather than a decorating preference. Lead time is 2 to 5 weeks either way.

Morse Overlook: two streets above the reservoir

Morse Overlook sits on high ground above the Morse Reservoir shoreline off Stringtown Pike, on two streets: Anchor Bay and Shorevista. Residents describe the address by the overlook rather than by the town, and the plat is small enough that a route sheet would cover it in an afternoon if the schedules weren't 40 to 85 openings apiece. Schools are Hamilton Heights School Corporation for every address here, with one elementary school, one middle school and one high school serving Cicero, Arcadia and roughly 100 square miles of Jackson and White River townships. Morse Reservoir itself covers about 1,500 acres, was completed in 1956 and is owned by Citizens Energy Group.

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