Our client came to us with a clear and inspiring goal: to create a multi-generational home that could adapt to their family’s evolving needs while honoring the natural beauty of a six-acre restored prairie in eastern Minnesota. From the outset, it was evident that this project was about more than just building a house—it was about designing a home that would exist in quiet dialogue with its landscape.

The project creates a strong sense of place by reimagining a previously disjointed and compartmentalized home into a cohesive, light-filled environment that better reflects the rhythms of daily life for a family of six.

Many lake homes in the region are precisely that – a home on a lake, and in their composition, delineation of public, private and indoor/outdoor spaces and detailing are virtually indistinguishable from non-lake homes. We argue that instead of a home on a lake, our client’s home is a home with the lake.