From the inside of the main-floor living room, across from a well-planned bar and entertainment area, a wall of windows offers views out into the cypress-shelled boathouse that is as cavernous as it is cool. The entire home is inspired by British West Indies décor – black, white, cream, brown, various textures, woods and materials like wispy bed canopies - with private balconies and guest rooms floor after floor, and the galley on the second level. Mannausa owns the second one he built two years ago, a sprawling 9,000-square-foot home that has a five car garage (one spot is a clever little space for his GEM, those golf-cart type vehicles Bay Harbor residents drive around) and a water-side boathouse that shelters his 39-foot Luhrs Sportfisherman. Mannausa, a Florida real estate developer and Michigan native, built two of the neighboring boathouses at mid-point on the yacht-club side of the lake, sharing pilings and landscaping with the “guy next door” (who happened to have invented the spin toothbrush and sold it to Procter & Gamble for $475 million). And neither do several of his neighbors along the Harborside stretch of Bay Harbor Lake, where luxury boathouses shelter investments of Luhrs and Tiaras like garages to Ferraris and Hummers.Īnd when we say they’re fly, we’re not talking about mosquitoes. You know how wet and cold it can get tying up the boat back at the dock when the weather turns inclement, or how bugs and spider webs stick bow-to-stern while she’s rocking against the pilings between jaunts?
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