Lakeside Family Residence Redesigned with Emotional Flair by Rehkamp Larson
East Coast-Inspired Colonial Home Outside the Twin Cities
Jean Rehkamp, the project director and director of innovation at Streeter Custom Builder, has led the construction of an impressive East Coast-inspired Colonial home on a quiet lake. Rehkamp, who is also the co-founder of Rehkamp Larson Architects, Inc, states that the home defines elegance.
The interior designer for the project is Sue Weldon, who worked with the homeowners on finishing touches, selecting soft paint colors, subtle wallpaper, and a mix of light fixtures. The homeowners envisioned a home with formal architecture and a lively spirit, inspired by traditional Colonial homes they admired on the East Coast.
The house's exterior reflects the style of Connecticut or Southampton homes, with symmetrical windows flanking the front door. The home's interior features a blend of antiques, newer pieces, and various patterns, textures, and details. A notable feature is the dining room, papered in a hand-painted verdure mural by Iksel, and a hidden jib door concealed within the mural leads to a sweet, soft pink China closet.
The kitchen and family room are less formal and more open but share the same attention to detail as the rest of the house. A fun addition to the house is a pull-down world map behind the kitchen banquette. The staircase is placed in a wing between the kitchen and primary suite to allow for a clear view from the front entry to the lake beyond.
Traditional homes can sometimes be dark, but this home has ample natural light due to wider openings between rooms, French doors, three stories of divided glass on the staircase, cupolas in the mudroom and primary suite closet, and Solatube tubular daylighting devices in the vaulted second-floor internal hallway.
Landscape Architect Todd Irvine of Keenan & Sveiven designed the house's grounds, including a long herringbone driveway, courtyard, boxwood hedges, bobo hydrangeas, ornamental grasses, and a limestone wall on the lakeside. The limestone wall supports the pool, pool house, and hot tub, and satisfies the five-foot pool safety fence requirement.
Streeter Custom Builder was the builder for the project. Unfortunately, the search results do not contain information about the landscape architect responsible for the Colonial House property. Regardless, this East Coast-inspired Colonial home outside the Twin Cities is a testament to the beauty and elegance that can be achieved through thoughtful design and skilled craftsmanship.
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