Our downtown Traverse City home is the perfect home base for a summer of adventures -- and the perfect setting for relaxing and entertaining as well. The home: Brazilian hardwood floors, all-day natural light, high ceilings. Four full bedrooms (three with organic mattresses), plus a fifth convertible room with a new full-sized pull-out couch. Two bathrooms, each with a shower (and one with a tub). A cathedral-ceilinged living room with an upright piano, a gas stove/fireplace, an actual record player, and a 55" TV. We have central air, a Nest thermostat and Nest Protect smoke/carbon monoxide detectors, and reverse-osmosis water filtration. The backyard: A treehouse, a sandbox, and a 5-foot-tall climbing dome for the kids. A new gas grill (Weber Spirit II E-310, top-rated), a grape arbor and a picnic table for the grown-ups. And plenty of towering trees to provide shade during the hot summer days. Because this is a rare downtown TC home with an attached garage, the fenced-in backyard is larger than usual and wide open for game-playing and fun. The location: You're a 5-block walk to the nearest Lake Michigan beach (and the TART Trails), a 9-block walk to the downtown restaurants, bars and shops on Front Street, a 10-minute drive to the wineries on Old Mission, 20-minute drive to the Horse Show grounds, a 20-minute drive to Suttons Bay and the beauty of Leelanau Peninsula, a 22-minute drive to Interlochen Center for the Arts, and a 35-minute drive to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. You're situated smack dab in the center of one of the most beautiful places on the planet. Of note: * Traverse City only allows 30-day rentals, and we abide. * Let us know if you'd really like to extend through Labor Day, and we _might_ be able to accommodate that.