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How to make your bedroom a sanctuary

There are solutions for every budget.
September 6, 2024
Bedroom with green walls, wood floor and fuzzy pale rug. A window with white curtains is to the left, and there's a green plant, a bed with neutral bedding and a midtone wood end table, with hanging spherical golden lights.
Business

1918 Duluth bank converted into ‘classic and modern’ house lists for $499,000

Couple Andrew Holperin and Jennifer Jackl converted a century-old Park State Bank into a one-bedroom, four-bathroom home while preserving some of its best original features.
September 6, 2024
Food & Culture

Yuen: How Minnesota’s No. 1 apple changed the industry — and the taste of apples to come

A legendary U of M apple breeder shares how the Honeycrisp went from “a local little apple that Minnesotans knew about” to the juggernaut it is today.
AuthoredLaura Yuen
September 5, 2024
A middle-aged man wearing glasses and a short gray beard and a maroon hat smiles at the camera in front of an apple tree.
Home & Garden

Warbling vireo was hard to see but showed up on bird song app

Unusual mnemonic device used to recognize its call, one of the longest bird songs.
September 5, 2024
A warbling vireo sings while perched on a branch.
Home & Garden

How a Minnesota ‘childless cat lady’ transformed her home into a feline playground

Cats are trending with millennials and Gen Zers who find owning them less work and less expense than a dog. Former WCCO reporter Mary Tan is just such an enthusiast.
September 4, 2024
Business

This $68M Lake Minnetonka mansion will become Minnesota’s most expensive house — if it sells

Last month, there was a nearly 16% increase in pending sales of $1 million-plus houses across the metro, the biggest annual increase in any price range, according to data from the Minneapolis Area Realtors.
August 31, 2024
Home & Garden

9 common home renovation mistakes to avoid

Here’s what experts say to do instead.
August 30, 2024
Home & Garden

A Monaco billionaire is buying up properties in tony Carmel, Calif.

Purchases include $22 million for Cabin on the Rocks, the only oceanfront home ever designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
August 30, 2024
Home & Garden

Easy DIY projects to glam up your dorm decor

Try these inexpensive ideas to make your dorm room your own.
August 30, 2024
Dorm room with two twin beds with colorful pillows and tack boards above each bed. In between is a wall nook with shelving used as a bookcase.
Real Estate

What $400,000 will get Twin Cities homebuyers looking for new construction

Most options are townhouses, though some single-family houses are available in outer-ring suburbs. Many new developments also have homeowners associations that handle community maintenance.
August 30, 2024
Home & Garden

Nesting loons have time on their side

A hard-luck tale of one nesting pair shows the many pitfalls these long-lived birds face producing chicks.
August 29, 2024
A common loon on the water stretches its wings wide.
Home & Garden

Single-car garage in Minneapolis transformed into ADU with West Coast flair

August’s Home of the Month winner is an accessory dwelling unit that offers low-maintenance living and fits in with the Longfellow neighborhood.
August 24, 2024
A Minneapolis resident who believes in small-scale residential structures decided to build an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) in her Longfellow lot. The architect and homeowner decided to scale back the square footage even more than what the city would have allowed to seamlessly blend with the existing house and neighborhood. Still, the ADU looms large in a design that feels spacious through the use of bump-outs, clerestory windows, a double-height staircase and more.
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