Parade of Homes ‘Dream Home’ #0416
The Parade of Homes has started in the Twin Cities and yesterday the misses had a strange premonition that we were going to win the Powerball – it being a Saturday and all. Based on the fortified strength of this premonition, it was quickly decided that if we were just a few happy hours away from winning huge burlap sacks full of cash, then really, in looking at the parade of some homes, we should really narrow our focus and not consider anything less then two million dollar dwellings in our attempt to glean any kind of design inspirado from them. Anything less would probably jinx our chances with the Lotto.
In fact, we should probably just skip the riff raff domiciles altogether and go directly to the best home in the parade. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’m really a parade kinda guy. So let’s just cut to the chase or whatever the grand finale of a parade is and go home. Good. Yes. Let’s do that.
Thus the first stop, well really the only stop on our nouveau rich victory lap cum home parade was the appropriately named ‘Dream Home’ at 1 Windy Ridge Place in Mendota. And at an asking price of $2,175,000 it seemed like a good place for us to both begin and end this parade.
I have to admit, I came expecting greatness from a house that had the honor of carrying the singular in its address. You can’t be slacking if you hold first rank on a Windy Ridge. Maybe ‘3 Windy Ridge Place’ could get by with a lawn ornament grossly out of place or some other substandard housing misstep but ‘1 Windy Ridge Place’? No way. She had better come to the red carpet in a full gesture of simplicity and classic beauty – with not one hair on her head out of place.
From the moment we removed our shoes in the mud room and stepped onto the Jarrah wood floors, I knew that 1 Windy Ridge Place was deserving of its street level rank and was not here to kid around. The architect and builder have done a terrific job of presenting a beautiful progressive space for any design hungry home buyer. The harmony of natural materials, open floor plans and exterior light complimented the Scandinavian styled furniture and textiles in a mixture of contemporary and classic modern design.
The furniture for this dream house was provided by Xylos, Finnstyle, Danish Teak Classics, and Design Within Reach making every room an exhibition in modern furniture pornography. I took a few more snaps: (main floor, lower level, bedroom, bathroom, loft). And no we did not win the Powerball.
