Check your mailboxes for our Spring 2026 Issue that will keep you inspired with the colorful homes and refreshing spaces featured! You can also pick it up on newsstands locally at @kowalskis_markets and @barnesandnoble .
Cover Photo by @chrismottalini
Interior Design by @prospectrefugestudio
#minnesotadesigner #interiordesign #mspmaghome
🏷️Summer kicks off the hunt-and-gather season of shopping, bargain-style. Mark your calendar so you don’t miss these treasure-filled flea markets, tag sales, and vintage pop-ups! See the full roundup at the link in our bio.
📷 @caitabrams
#vintage #vintagemarket #mpls
Submissions are now open for the 23rd annual RAVE Awards (Residential Architects Vision and Excellence)!
Projects will be evaluated across a range of categories by a distinguished national jury of architects and design professionals, and the 2026 winners will be revealed on August 5 at the iconic @glasshousemn and featured in the Fall Home & Design issue. Head to the link in our bio for the full details.
presented by @jkandsons
Later this year, one of the Twin Cities’ seminal interior design firms will say goodbye. Martha O’Hara opened her eponymous biz, now known as @ohara_interiors , nearly 40 years ago in the Twin Cities, and for the last seven-plus years, Martha’s daughter Kate O’Hara has been running the place. That family lens has never left—and it’s the reason the firm will wrap up projects later this year, as Martha’s husband and Kate’s father battles Alzheimer’s.
Kate says that with three locations and 30 employees, as well as a large roster of projects and orders at any given time, it became too much to manage—and selling, or bringing in new leadership, didn’t feel natural for the brand. But this won’t be a quick goodbye—after all, the busy team still has plenty of projects in motion that they don’t plan on abandoning. Kate says just about all designers are starting new businesses to continue the work they love to do. O’Hara designer Krystal Kellermann has recently announced she’s starting a new company, Tweed and Co. Interiors, with Taylor Allsup, another O’Hara designer.
Read more about the how the design firm is winding down and what’s next for its beloved designers at the link in our bio.
✍️ by @madison.bloomquist
📷 by @spacecrafting_photography
#designfirm #interiordesign #twincities #mspmaghome
If you haven’t been yet, there’s a new shop at 50th and Xerxes, the south Minneapolis vintage and antiques hotbed. Julie Melendez, a vintage dealer who nabbed a spot selling at Loft nearly a decade ago, has opened Vintage J.A.M. on the southwest side of the corner. “I love Loft and that whole community. But I wanted more space,” Melendez says.
Stop in to shop décor, books, and trinkets from a variety of time periods and sources, but especially oil paintings and sketches that clutter the walls like a shoppable museum. Learn more before you go at the link in our bio.
✍️ @madison.bloomquist
📷 @caitabrams
#vintageshop #antiqueshop #mpls #vintagestore #mspmaghome
There is still time to see tulips in bloom around the Twin Cities 🌷🌷🌷
📍 @lakewoodcemetery recently planted 50,000 bulbs which are now blooming in Minneapolis
📍Despite being sold last year, the Tulip House at 25th St & Humboldt Ave is still going strong, with the new owners planting bulbs to continue the tradition!
📍And of course, the @mn_arboretum has their annual display going on right now, featuring 40,000 tulips in a dazzling show of pastel color 🤩
🎥 @caitabrams@madison.bloomquist
Congratulations to our top vote getters in 160 categories that include arts, retail, design and more! 🥇 Check out the results in the Best Of the Twin Cities Readers Poll for all the Bronze, Silver, and Gold winners at the link in bio.
#bestof #twincities #readerspoll #mspmaghome
From the cozy screen porch to the showstopper photos of homeowner Bridget Murphy’s horses in the entry, this cabin rebuild in Luck, Wisconsin feels like it’s always been there. Take a look inside and read about the intentional design choices from the team at the link in our bio!
Story by @shawnrgilliam
Photography: @spacecrafting_photography
Architecture: @charlieandcodesign
Interior Design: @englerstudio
Builder: @dh.detailhomes
#homerebuild #interiorinspo #mspmaghome #remodel #cabininspo
April showers bring May flowers 🌸🌼 Amanda Eastvold, best known as co-owner of @eastvoldfurniture , fills her 1918 historic home with flowers each spring and summer, ranging from cosmos and zinnias to snapdragons and celosia, but beloved dahlias take center stage.
Eastvold refuses to sell her flowers, preferring to give them away and fill her own home with life (like on this vintage shelf from her mother-in-law). Read more of her story at the link in our bio!
✍️ by @madison.bloomquist
📷 by @chadholderphoto
#gardening #dahliagarden #historichomes #vintagefurniture #mspmaghome
Art in Bloom is back at @artsmia now through April 26🌸🪻🌷🌼
Each spring, the museum pairs more than 100 local floral artists (all volunteers chosen through a lottery system) with curator-selected works in Mia’s permanent collection.
PLUS: If you vote for your favorites, Mia announces daily winners on its stories and floral artists can win daily prizes, plus grand prizes at the end.
The show is free and open to all! What is your favorite floral creation this year?
🎥 @madison.bloomquist
Bold design choices update this Edina home. Interior Designer Victoria Sass, @prospectrefugestudio , tapped artisans and craftspeople—many in the Twin Cities or the Midwest—to anoint each space with personality. Local artist Ginny Sims’s playful hand-painted mural wraps dining room walls. In a powder room, a mix of handmade tiles are like tiny artworks that form the vanity. Accessories and furnishings, such as a coffee table inlaid with corn husks, further the conversation-starting artistry. See the full transformation at the link in our bio. 🤩
Story by @jodygarlock
Photography by @chrismottalini
Interior Design by @prospectrefugestudio
Architecture by @murphycodesign
Builder @streeterhomes
Styling by @tessawatson
#contemporarydesign #moderninteriordesign #mural #mspmaghome
Ceramist Katharine Eksuzian of @umamipottery loves looking at life through a micro lens. To her, details don’t just matter—the tiniest veins and pores and imperfections of a plant, insect, or bird are what make nature so compelling. And those intricacies are exactly what make her own flora-and-fauna-inspired porcelain sculptures and vessels so striking as well.
She fires her pieces in her own soda kiln (built by local ceramics legend Donovan Palmquist @masterkilnbuilders ) at her home studio in Victoria (shown). The process, she admits, is slow. “I intentionally stop the clock; I don’t like to track how long something takes,” she says, adding that she loses herself in the methodology.
See more of her work at the link in our bio, and see it on exhibit at The Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, Wisconsin (May 15–July 12); at the American Craft Council show at Union Depot (June 13–14); and shop it in person at Gallery 360 or online over at @umamipottery !
✍️ @madison.bloomquist
📷 @caitabrams
