LAKE HOUSE LEGACY
They say history repeats itself. So maybe it’s no surprise that it took a series of remodels for Emily and Michael Knotts to turn their ranch house on North Carolina’s Lake Wylie into their ideal family home. After all, its original owners—Michael’s great-aunt and her husband—had themselves nurtured the little house along through the end of the 20th century, one remodel at a time.
The family’s connection to the lake goes back 100 years, when Michael’s great-grandfather was hired to enlarge a dam on the Catawba River after floods swamped the area in 1916. He found the lake so appealing that he decided to live there, eventually sharing some of his property with his daughters: Michael’s grandmother and his great-aunt
