We’re working on a design for a cabin in Northern Minnesota. It’ll be a replacement for an existing cabin that the family has enjoyed for generations – built by our client’s father. We’re working on renderings of the structure to aid in the design and the client’s understanding of the site – these are very early, no materials or landscaping, but are fun to look at in the early stage…
Green building? Lumber harvested from the site will be reused.
This is pretty cool! A client that we are building for in Minneapolis wanted to use lumber that was harvested forum the site. We found a local company that picked up the raw logs, sawed them into lumber, and. Is now kiln drying the wood. It’ll be used in the construction of cabinetry and Millwork details within the new home.
Stonewood is on Houzz – Recommend us!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 10th, 2012
Recommending us on Houzz.com will boost our ranking!
http://www.houzz.com/pro/svengustafson/stonewood-llc
Minneapolis among the cities with best housing price recovery!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2nd, 2011
The latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index report showed prices were down 3.9 percent on a national basis.
But as we all know, real estate is local and not every market is faring the same.
Here are the eight cities that have seen the biggest recovery (of those used in Case-Shiller) in home prices from their post-crash lows. In many cases, these cities are still well off of their housing-bubble peaks, but they have made the most progress, percentage-wise, from the trough.
- Detroit, up 13.5 percent
- Washington, D.C., up 13.3 percent
- San Francisco, up 13.2 percent
- Minneapolis, up 8.4 percent
- Chicago, up 7.6 percent
- San Diego, up 6.4 percent
- Boston, up 5.9 percent
- Los Angeles, up 5.5 percent
On the other hand, three cities – Atlanta, Las Vegas and Phoenix – hit their lowest point yet in the latest index, so the recovery certainly isn’t everywhere yet.
Full Story: http://www.housingzone.com/industry-data-research/8-cities-best-home-price-recovery
First place award for our Edina Custom Home
Posted in Awards, Under Construction on November 12th, 2011
Annie Graunke of Martha O’Hara interiors wins again! Well deserved for all of her hard work on this project.
