The Leisure Island Boathouse

The Leisure Island boathouse sits on a boat-access site on Lake of the Woods, sheltering a single Bayliner beneath its soaring black roofline.

The design brief called for something far from the traditional boathouse look. Jamie Marshallworked through the concept with contractor Ryan Bartmanovich of Wind and Water Interiors, landing on a smooth, simple form with deep roof overhangs and a streamlined profile. The black steel frame and dark roofline sit against warm wood cladding and decking, a pairing that reads modern from the water but still feels at home against the rock and trees around it. Achieving that kind of simplicity on paper meant solving for it structurally, since the clean lines only hold up if the engineering underneath is exact.

The build itself had to work around the lake rather than against it. Materials went in by ice road delivery with a January start that shaped nearly every decision on site, from how scaffolding was used to how deliveries were timed and sequenced.

Lumber One supplied the full package for the build, including steel, roofing, cladding and the complete lumber package, all specified and delivered to a site where a shortfall or a substandard material means a trip back across the ice or by barge, not a quick run to the yard. Ryan Bartmanovich has built on Lake of the Woods since 2011 and has worked with Lumber One on the majority of his projects, largely because a remote build leaves no room for materials that fail once they're already on site.

The result is a boathouse built for the lake it sits on, streamlined and considered above the waterline, and engineered to handle winters, ice and everything a boat-access site demands below it.

Location
Leisure Island, Lake of the Woods

Builder
Ryan Bartmanovich, Wind and Water IInteriors

Designer
Jamie Marshall, Lumber One