Ex-Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy's $2.3M Deer Lake mansion hits market

It’s hard to decide what’s most impressive here — the beautiful wooded setting or the soaring open house.

The setting is 1.6 acres in the woods outside Clarkston with 150 feet of Deer Lake shoreline. Even this spot on the shoreline is special. Deer Lake is an all-sports lake where you can water ski or JetSki to your heart’s content.

But this house is at a slender end where the lake has a no-wake rule. So while you can zoom past other folks’ houses on your personal water craft, they cannot roar past yours.

Then there’s the house — wide open and full of glass. The great room is a soaring 40 feet long. And only a step, no walls, divide it from the 26-foot dining room.

The kitchen and family room look out through glass walls. All around above these, about four feet of roof are cut away for more glass. Glass doors open out to raised terraces.

Kim and Stan Van Gundy bought this house in 2014 and spent 1½ years on a massive remodeling. He was team president and head coach of the Detroit Pistons at the time, now working for Turner Sports as a game analyst for TNT and NBA TV.

Pretty much everything is head-to-toe new, said Kim Van Gundy — the bathrooms, the kitchen, the fireplaces, the stone columns. At the water’s edge they built a shed for boating equipment, and near the house they built a potting shed with electricity and water.

They used reclaimed Michigan barn wood through the house. On accent walls they kept its weathered finish. On floors they planed it down to a golden shine.

The new kitchen is 21 feet by 16 feet with a long island and a breakfast bar that seats six.

It has two sinks, two Meile dishwashers, two ovens, two Sub-Zeros, a steam oven, a coffee station and a walk-in pantry. Because of the glass wall and the cut-away roof, the kitchen is full of light.

“In the summer, it’s like a tree house,” Kim Van Gundy said. “In the winter, it’s so cozy. My plants have never been happier.”

The house has two suites on the main floor that can be used as an owners’ suite. One of them has an upstairs loft set up as a TV room. The couple’s kids used this for sleepovers.

Three more bedroom suites are on the second level. Each has its own bathroom with a heated floor.

The lower level is finished into a glass-walled walkout with a large stone patio outside. There’s a large family room with a fireplace, a long bar and a large wine cellar. This temperature controlled room is behind glass, so the wine is part of the view.

The lower level also has a glass-enclosed yoga room with slings for aerial yoga. There’s an exercise room, a cedar-lined steam shower, a full bath and an extra large hot tub just outside the door. A glass top over it and a large stone fireplace nearby let this be used in winter.

Counting this outdoor fireplace, the house has a total of six. It also has a stone firepit, a dock and small sandy beach. An elevator reaches all three floors.

The house is a 2-minute drive to I-75 and a walkable mile to the restaurants of Clarkston.

Van Gundy Deer Lake mansion

Where: 7500 Deer Park Trail, Independence Township

How much: $2,345,000

Bedrooms: 5

Baths: 5 full, 1 half

Square feet: 5820 on the main floors, plus 3,100 on the walk-out lower level.

Key features: Beautiful contemporary house with a great deal of glass is surrounded by woods and lakeshore. Completely remodeled. Three levels, elevator, great kitchen, six fireplaces, dock, boat shed, potting shed..

Contact: Sherry Pyszczynski, Keller Williams Metro, 248-217-1680.