Paul Kaminski with Coldwell Banker Realty

06/10/2022

Entertain in the gracious living room, family or theater rooms. This grand home is ready to enjoy upon move in!

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05/20/2022

05/20/2022

This wonderful home is located on a large corner lot and comes equipped the details you’d expect in a home of this quality: breakfast nook, wood wainscoting, wet bar area, stainless appliances, and more!

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08/17/2021

It's the AIA Home of the Month!

"If you're going to remodel, it helps to live on the property before you remodel. There are things that you can only understand after you've lived in the house and see the flow. A place has its own rhythms and needs and you've got to figure those out before you start making changes."

Architect worked to make his family's Brainerd Lakes area retreat a jewel.

08/15/2021

#6. Let the existing landscape lead the design.

Try using native stone for building smaller walls or add native grasses to create wilder looking meadows and to provide a soothing transition from more planned plantings to more naturalistic collections.

When you look closely at this region, you realize there's an artful arrangement between architecture and landscape, between old and new.

08/12/2021

Classic Edina split level home, generously sized, with three bedrooms up and one bedroom down. Lower level includes a large family room with fireplace as well as a large recreation room. Upper level living/dining room combination opens onto a large sunroom overlooking a great back yard.

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08/10/2021

#5. Use a hose correctly when watering plants.

Remember: A nozzle that casts a wide spray wets the foliage and doesn’t always reach the ground, making this wasteful and not efficient.

Certain ways of watering can actually harm and weaken your plants, waste your time and money, and (super-critical right now) waste a dwindling resource.

08/08/2021

"This was a sweet opportunity to rethink how to transform a house type that's common throughout the Twin Cities... It's cool to see the possibilities that come from a typical house that you see everywhere."

A Linden Hills house that could have been a teardown has been renovated into a jaw-dropper.

08/05/2021

“A well-designed pool can be a restful, soothing, and sophisticated water element in a landscape.”

Landscape architect Scott Lewis has worked on numerous pools and water features in his designs. Read on for his 13 top tips on swimming pool design.

07/13/2021

The most prominent feature of the building is a 44-foot stair tower, which rises the length of the structure. From the top, it looks like the riffling pages of a book or the folds on an accordion. It, too, floats.

"I was looking for a way to connect all three levels in a dramatic way, and have that experience be memorable. Floated stairs in the volume of the tower give the full sense of scale of the house."

Richard Bonnin designed his 2003 house to be welcoming and warm.