Kenwood is one of the super-premium neighborhoods in Minneapolis. Kenwood is a gingerbread dollhouse-encrusted hill perched just southeast of downtown Minneapolis. Back in 1995, I looked at a carriage house apartment behind a 5000 square-foot mansion that would have been the nicest place I had ever lived – and it was above a garage. Given [...]
A Room with a View
I love when a house has a unique surprise – something that makes me drop what I’m doing because I’m dying to see what it has to offer. This house in Lake St. Croix, MN has that wonderful screen porch on the garage reachable by a skyway from the main house. Why? So you can [...]
Prior Lake Remix
I love to revisit old work even though I rarely do anything with it. I was recently looking at this set of photos from a beautiful million-dollar home that I shot for the builder in Prior Lake, MN when I realized: I can do even better. I’m hardly the first artist to have that feeling.. [...]
Twenty Four
Timeline: Tuesday afternoon: I photographed this property Tuesday evening: I edited and processed these images and submitted them to the Realtor that is selling this home Wednesday: The home was listed on MLS Thursday: SOLD! It was a beautiful, well-staged home with trendy decor and nice living spaces. It was perfectly priced and well-marketed online. [...]
Not Your Ordinary Grandparents House
Most people don’t envision this when they think of Grandma’s house. This beautiful South Minneapolis home is a custom-designed and custom-built house from the late-1950′s. It contained a million little details that made it a distinctive one-of-a-kind home in it’s price range. This house had 5 bedrooms, Frank Lloyd Wright-style 2-sided fireplaces, big windows everywhere, [...]
Sold In Under Two Weeks
This house is one that I shot in April to be listed on MLS. The owners were relocating and needed it to sell fast. As it turned out, not only would it sell fast – it made the perfect case study for effective real estate marketing. This was one of three identical houses for sale [...]
Keep the Home Fires Burning
There is nothing that makes a property look more majestic than doing a dusk shot. There is something about the illumination of the property, the glow of the windows, and the deep blues of the sky that transforms any property into a stately manor. It it significantly more effort than doing a drive-by shot during [...]
Beautiful Gehl Street Home
Today’s post is a pure real-estate shoot from a house currently for sale near my office in Chaska, MN. I love walking in to a house that is all ready for it’s trip down the runway with expert staging and nice decor. This property felt homey the second I walked in the door – and [...]
Ephraim Sanctuary
Since I did a big house for the last post, I’m going to the other side and posting about a very small house. This is Log Cabin Place in Ephraim, WI which I shot over Labor Day weekend last year. This cottage was recently remodeled and had just been reopened for visitors. The owner, Diane, [...]
Prior Lake Palace
This is the greatroom of a beautiful 5000 square foot lake home in Prior Lake, MN that I had the honor of shooting for the builder. It was built by Memory Lane – a local high-end builder and remodeler that does exceptional work with a lot of attention to detail. Though he had built the [...]
