Ten Minutes With LA Design North’s Lisa Africano
Minneapolis native and owner of professional design firm LA Design North, Lisa Africano, talks home style and trends, and her favorite Northwoods haunts.
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Coastal Chic on Lake Du Bay
One couple’s love of the waterfront life led them to find their own piece of paradise in the Wausau area.
Before and After: A Light, Bright Kitchen
A couple reimagines a lakefront condo’s kitchen into a light, bright oasis.
Noir on the Northern Shore
An interior designer’s dream home features a love of West Coast style and many design surprises along the way.
Sailing and Sun on Pewaukee Lake
By Shayna Mace | Photography by Shanna Wolf
In a Pewaukee Lake household, jibing, tacking, leeward and windward are common terms. After all, the homeowner and her husband grew up sailing. Their three children and eight grandchildren are, or growing up to be, avid sailors. Both of the wife’s parents were sailors, too.
Belle Blooms
By Shayna Mace | Photography by Westhauser Photography
James Drzewiecki of Gingko Leaf Studio names all of his landscape projects something memorable. Take his stunning “Chateau de Fleurs” design for homeowner Heather and Brian Paulin’s Lac La Belle home.
Big Living In A Cozy Space
By Shayna Mace | Photography by Shanna Wolf
Cathy Ostrom has seen properties all over the city as a realtor with First Weber, and has a discriminating eye. So she knew when a property went up for sale in the Middleton Beach neighborhood, she had to snap it up.
Left Coast meets Middle Coast
By Shayna Mace | Photography by Shanna Wolf
Keven Schmidt calls it the “million-dollar walk.”
He and his wife Terri were taking a stroll along Lake Monona in the Frost Woods neighborhood and spotted an open house. Intrigued, they stopped in to take a peek at the 700-square-foot home built in 1949.
Southern Style Meets European Flair
By Shayna Mace | Photography by Shanna Wolf
When guests drive up to Hans and Marijo Weissgerber’s Oconomowoc Lake home, they’re greeted by a sunny yellow manor with Spanish-tiled roof, decorative archway detail and show stopping carved Phillippine mahogany door.
Easy Living on Oconomowoc Lake
By Shayna Mace | Photography by Shanna Wolf
If you’ve ever seen “Gone With the Wind,” the image of Tara, the plantation home in the film, evokes a grand, stately presence. The Midwest’s own version of Tara sits right on Oconomowoc Lake on 100 feet of lake frontage and is owned by Debi and Jim Schneider, who purchased the property in 2005.