Patience is a virtue. It took about a year between the time that Jeff and Sarah first reached out to me about designing their new house and the time that the design work actually began. They had their eyes on a particular property that was tied up in probate, and they were smart to wait for it. Jeff and Sarah were intent on having a home designed and built expressly for them, and they knew that location was an important part of the equation. In this case, Keewaydin, a southeastern Minneapolis neighborhood, offered just what the couple was looking for: easy access to downtown, a modest and human scale, and a sense of community. Jeff and Sarah wanted their new home to fit the rhythm of the street, which consisted primarily of 1~(1/2) -story homes built in the late 1930s and '40s. They liked the Craftsman bungalow style, which was made popular in California in the early 20th century by brothers Charles and Henry Greene.
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