Design stories, material discoveries, and the thinking behind our work.
The kitchen is the most consequential room in any home. It's where families gather every morning, where guests inevitably congregate, where the rhythm of daily life plays out. Getting it right means understanding how a family actually lives, not just how a kitchen should look.
Lake Minnetonka has its own set of rules. Setbacks, shoreline regulations, height restrictions, and the ever-present question of views. Before a single line is drawn, there are conversations that need to happen. Here's what we wish every client knew going in.
Trends come and go, but a well-executed neutral palette ages like fine oak. It's not about playing it safe; it's about giving the architecture room to breathe and letting the landscape, the art, and the people who live there supply the color.
Minnesota has a remarkable native plant palette that most homeowners never consider. Prairie grasses, woodland wildflowers, native shrubs that produce berries well into December. Once established, these plantings ask very little and give back enormously.
Everyone wants their project done yesterday. But great work takes time, and the projects that suffer most are the ones where expectations were never set correctly at the start. Here's an honest look at what drives timelines and how we manage them.
You can have perfect furniture, flawless finishes, and inspired art. Then someone switches on a single overhead recessed light and the room collapses. Layered lighting is one of the most powerful tools in interior design, and one of the most commonly shortchanged.