home of distinction F R A M I N G M E M O R I E S O N whiskey creek With three children, one dog and 30 years of marriage to celebrate, Eric and Tracey Schmidt and their family have a new home where they are starting to build memories by the creek. Nestled on the bank of Whiskey Creek, the Schmidts’ Donnelly Lane home was built for friends and family. The Schmidts didn’t grow up near the ocean. After living in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Louisiana, they decided they wanted to move to North Carolina. The couple started an optometry practice in Elizabethtown, NC, and subsequently built a beach house in Ocean Isle. In 2002 they moved to Wilmington, and the search for a lot on the water began. In 2012, the Schmidts started building their fourth and final home. Tracey Schmidt says, “We found water, our final destina-tion.” Tracey, with a background in fashion buying, expanded her creativity into planning a custom home. She spent years add-ing to her picture book, where images and descriptions were filtered and categorized by room. “I wanted to put all the pieces of the puzzle of different styles of our homes together,” she says. 68 WBM november 2014 BY Danielle Boisse PHOTOGRAPHY BY Joshua Curry
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