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AIA Homes By Architects Tour Kickoff Event

Twin Cities Design Scene — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:26:51 +0000

If you are thinking about re-modeling, then listen up: this Wednesday, September 8th, from 6-8pm, Room & Board in Edina is hosting the AIA Homes by Architects Kickoff Event. At this event, you will be able to meet the architects and homeowners from the tour and get inspiration for transforming your own space. The tour is on Sept 18th and 19th. Tickets are $15 online and $20 the day of the tour. Tickets will be available at the kickoff event at Room and Board for a “2 for $25″ discount.

At 6:15, architects from Nguyen Architects, Inc and Sala Architects and their clients will present their projects and discuss the re-modeling experience. Food and refreshments will be served.

To learn more about the AIA Homes By Architects tour, please visit their website.

House Tour: Annie’s Colorful Abode

Twin Cities Design Scene — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:24:11 +0000

Photographs by Noelle Bakken

I always have been drawn to bold, bright colors, but like so many of us, I too have shied away from putting saturated color on my walls (cut me some slack, I’m a renter!) Meet Annie. She is not afraid of color. Instead, she embraces bright colors and fills her home with cheerful, fun hues. Check out her home for inspiration of how to have fun with color in your own space.

Read on after the jump to see all the pictures of Annie’s home.

Before picking out her color schemes, Annie studied color inspiration books, seeking out bold, happy colors. The most amazing thing about her home is the amount of work she put into transforming her townhome into a place she loves to live. She added a bit of her own personal craftiness into all the rooms. For example, she sewed all the colorful slipcovers, made many of her own accessories, or altered them to make them a different color, and made her own curtains!

Name: Annie Angerhofer
Location: Eagan
Size: 1,300 sq ft
Years lived in: owned for 1 year but didn’t move in for about 5 months until upstairs painting/re-flooring was done

My Style: mod, bright, bold in-your-face color

Inspiration: Color! I got ideas from a couple books on paint color and design (I loved one featured room so much I turned my previously unfinished basement into almost an exact replica of it, colors, furniture, construction and all) but most of it just came from picking out all the paint colors I wanted and going from there.

Favorite Element: not to sound like a broken record, but I’d probably have to say the color–it makes me happy

Biggest Challenge: 2 things: the tight staircase and the ridiculously high ceilings. The tight space on the stairs made it really difficult to get a lot of my furniture into the house. And the high ceilings/really weird cubby thing above the coat closet made it really hard to paint and change out the 2 hanging lights. My parents helped with almost everything I did to the house, especially that.

What Friends Say: The colors make them happy, too. My favorite/proudest comment was from a friend who thinks my place should be in a magazine.

Biggest Embarrassment: The spiders. I don’t understand where all these spiders and other assorted bugs come from–I do not exaggerate when I say I kill 3-5 a day. I swear, I get rid of 1 and 5 more show up in its place. They’re pretty much part of the decor at this point.

Proudest Do it yourself project: I put 9 months of hard work into this house–painting, sewing, making most of the accent pieces, etc–and I’m very proud of how it turned out. I’m proudest of the couch and chair covers. I couldn’t find slipcovers in the colors I wanted so I had to make them all myself (with my mom’s help for the couches).

Biggest Indulgence: New flooring upstairs and the built-in bookcases downstairs (which cost almost more than the entire downstairs construction). I didn’t have to have either one, I could have left everything as it was…but then I’d be miserable and living in a hideous house, and who wants that?

Best Advice: Don’t be afraid of color! Don’t worry about what other people will think of your design choices. If you like something, go for it–you’re the one who has to live with it.

Resources: mostly Ikea, Target and TJ Maxx
Kitchen/Dining room: all appliances: Best Buy; piano, table and bookshelf: my parents’ house; chairs: Ikea
Living Room: all furniture: Ikea
Basement: couches and scrapbook chair: Ikea; desk and chair: Target; scrapbook storage: Michael’s; side table: TJ Maxx (repainted); fabric storage cubes: Target
Bedrooms: all furniture but papasan chair: Ikea (chair from friend); bedding: Company Store, Ikea and Herbergers
Accessories: mostly ideas I got from craft books; fabric for curtains and slipcovers: JoAnn
Lighting: Ikea, Target and TJ Maxx–some lamps repainted to match rooms
Rugs: Target and TJ Maxx
Artwork: repainted frames: GoodWill and other thrift shops; vintage posters: art.com; ‘paint drip’ art in dining room; idea stolen from Top Design; guestroom art: my photography put on canvas by Kinko’s; downstairs poppy painting: Jeff Boutin

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Thanks so much Annie for letting me feature your house! It is so beautiful! Thank you again to Noelle Bakken for her fantastic photography work!

Casey’s Living Life in his Luxurious Loft

Twin Cities Design Scene — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:21:44 +0000

Congrats to Casey Fritz for being featured as one of Apartment Therapy’s House Tours! Blogger Jason Loper took some beautiful photos of Casey’s 620 square foot Minneapolis condo which he shares with Eric Sodemann. With 14 foot high ceilings and an open floor plan, Casey and Eric created a space which is open and inviting, yet they maintain individual rooms using strategically placed furniture. Using rich, bold colors, handmade burlap curtains and a mixture of old & new furniture, Casey & Eric took time to look at the details and make this space their own. The result is a warm and cozy urban retreat. Head on over to Apartment Therapy’s blog to view the entire story. In the meantime, enjoy the snapshots below!

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Midwest Home’s Luxury Home Tour

Twin Cities Design Scene — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:24:37 +0000

Picture from Smuckler Custom Builders Inc

We are going into the 2nd weekend of Midwest Home’s Luxury Home tour. Going on its 10th year, this tour showcases 15 newly built multimillion dollar homes. Special events occur throughout the duration of the month-long tour, including wine & cheese tastings on Fridays, BBQ s on Saturdays, and a Twilight tour on the evening of Saturday the 19th. The remaining weekends on the tour are this June 18-20 and next weekend, June 25-27. You may pick up tickets at your local participating Caribou Coffee. Check out more info at Midwest Home’s website.

Kare 11 Video of the ASID Showcase Home

Twin Cities Design Scene — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:37:56 +0000

Image from MPLS St. Paul Magazine

There are just a couple more weeks left to purchase tickets and view the ASID duo homes on the home tour! The event ends on June 13th. On Sunday, June 6th, a special tour occurs where the first 100 guests will get a sack lunch from Byerly’s and Lunds from 12-2pm and are invited to have lunch on the lake. Check out more information on the ASID Showcase Home Tour on the MPLS St. Paul Magazine’s website.

Additionally, check out the video of Kare 11′s Pat Evans Lake of the Isles home tour and interview with Holly Bayer of Haut Haus Design on Kare 11′s website.