Minnetonka Full House Makeovers - Destiny Homes Renovations Creating Minnetonka Distinctive Homes

Minnetonka home makeovers are in full demand from kitchen upgrades with center islands and gourmet chef cooking space to family rooms and sun room additions that enjoy views of Lake Minnetonka. Families preferring to stay in their homes longer are more likely to do a full house makeover or major home renovation. Their goal is to enjoy more time at home, putting a higher priority on quality time with their family and making home a haven.

Minnetonka A Premium Community - Best Place to Live

Many Minnetonka residential homes are described as "homes of distinction", owned by wealthy professional and highly educated Minnesotans. They enjoy Minnetonka's bookstores, quality clothing boutiques, experience a life of luxury travel, and are patrons of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, and local fine dining and societies. Minnetonka's renowned and excellent public schools systems, high rate of home ownership of single-family luxury homes, apartments, pristine condominiums, and lakefront properties have made Minnetonka the choice for many families looking for premium community to raise children.

Minnetonka Home Designs From Destiny Homes

Lakefront Minnetonka homes merit great character and architecture to the rear exterior of the home as much as the front. Adding detailed trim to windows and ceilings, creative lighting, a few choice home accessories, and the perfect color selection, are a few of the home interior design decisions that Liz Sprenger is renowned for. The right home finishings make a Minnetonka home makeover a perfect showcase of homeowner preferences and choices that fit the city's rich history and luxury neighborhoods. We specialize in Minnetonka home makeovers and full house renovations.

DESTINY HOMES MINNETONKA HOME MAKEOVERS

Butch Sprenger, a luxury home builder serving the City of Minnetonka, Lake Minnetonka, and Minnetonka Beach, and co-owner of Destiny Homes, with his wife Liz Sprenger, are highly awarded home renovators.

Ideas For Minnetonka Home Makeovers and Full House Renovations.

Kitchen Renovations With Center Islands

Destiny Homes often completely removes an older kitchen to help create a fabulous new kitchen with a combination of rustic and contemporary elements. Open-concept kitchens remain popular with a center island to accommodate today's homeowners who turn gourmet chef come evening. Restaurant-inspired cooking areas are custom built in. There may be a prep area for vegetables near the main sink, a baking station near the Wolf oven with a lift-up mixer in the base cabinets, a sandwich-prep area near the refrigerator, and a bar area with second sink and mini-fridge in the island. A well-organized kitchen and pantry are musts haves on everyone's list.

Remodeled Living Rooms And Fireplaces

Minnetonka living room additions and renovations, with dramatic back-lit barrel vaulted ceilins, create a sense of expanse that fits the grand outdoor views of the Lake Minnetonka. Attractive rambling one and one half story homes are popular for seniors who are retiring from a full and rewarding professional life to enjoy quality time at home with family and friends. Homeowner home improvement projects often include an expansive living room large enough for entertaining groups, and favor the warmth of a fireplace for cooler evenings to gather around.

Sun Room Additions To View Lake Minnetonka

Breathtaking "ocean like" vistas of Lake Minnetonka allow homeowners to maximize the pleasures of living on or near the lake. Windows fill the entire walls overlooking the lake that carry the room through the day from enjoying full sunlight in the morning to soft lighting for evening times, watching the boats as they call it a good day and rest for the night at the local marinas.

Remodeled Formal Dining Rooms With Modern Lighting

Luxury dining rooms with modernized lighting are coming back as families welcome more time at home together. It really depends on the room. Custom styled wainscoting creates a fine dining atmosphere, usually dividing a wall in thirds and keeping the wainscoting just above 1/3. Liz Sprenger, home interior designer at Destiny Homes chooses just the right height when using wainscoting in proportion to the rooms size and ceiling height. Home makeovers that include adding a bay window for an additional seating area extends a formal dining room. A window seat set apart with a couch with chandelier and standard lamps is another alternative.

Sunlight Filled Front Entries

Prominent entry doors dead center in the front of the house take a commanding presence. Some Minnetonka home makeovers prefer a home's entry doors with windows that allow sunlight to pour in and immediate reflect a home's sunny side and set a cheerful tone. Windows can create daylight-filled homes in the morning to soft lighting for evening times watching the boats as they settle in at local marinas. Stepping into a Minnetonka home that introduces two and three levels with sweeping stair cases and rolled banisters state the home's distinctive personality and a welcoming tone.

Master Bedroom Additions With Luxury Bath And Balcony

Destiny Homes works closely with clients to customize their intimate living quarters with amenities that increase their quality lifestyle. Stand alone bathtubs in bathroom remodels that are deep with styled feet and form provide for a wonderful full-body steeping. An upholstered bench is a easy addition to add an extra bit of style, seating, and storage; they are available in a range of designs and heights to embellish a bedroom's décor. Master bedrooms are a more private space and are designed to please and relax in. Here are some additional ideas or possible inclusion:

Reading or sitting room
His and hers walk-in closets
En suite luxury bathroom
heated flooring
Fireplaces
Work centers
Coffee / small refrigerator area
Televisions in the bath
Saunas or spa rooms
Private balconies
Custom cabinetry / storage

Perfect Two and Three Car Garages With A Room

The garage has become as important as the home. Two and three car garages with a room above or a work shop in the back extend a home living space. Garages offer key storage space with ready access to tools, sports or boating items, project materials and so much more. A guest house over the garage may be the perfect spot to add private guest quarters that offer their own views of the lake.

American Housing Survey Shows Homeowners Are Preferring To Stay In Their Homes Longer

Housing Economics' recent study shows that, based on a long-run calculation that averages mobility tendencies over a number of years, the typical buyer of a single-family residential home averages a stay in their home of approximately 13 years before moving out.

The study, called "Latest Calculations Show Average Buyer Expected to Stay in a Home 13 Years", uses the latest data available from the 2011 American Housing Survey (AHS), funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted in odd-numbered years by the Census Bureau. The new data reflects the trauma in recent years of the housing market, and, if housing annalists were to draw a number based only on mobility rates calculated from the most recent data—the expected length of stay in a single-family home would be more like16 years.

Minnetonka Home Makeover Activity

The National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI) was upbeat in its latest quarterly survey and summary of 2012 home renovations. It said two-thirds of respondents had a positive view of U.S. home renovations and home makeover activity in the first quarter of 2013. Lake Minnetonka has some of the most highly sought after real estate in Minnesota due to the expansive lake Minnetonka great views, activities, and varience in from woodland areas to high devopled. Offering many great bays, the homes in the area range from secluded and quiet to more active and community-based.

The Census Bureau Report on the Concentration of High-Income Households released February 11, 2013 list the Twin Cities as having the 16th highest concentration of high income households nationally.

Two questions present themselves when considering the geographic concentration of high-income households. First, where do most high-income households live? Second, where are the highest concentrations of high-income households? The report answers the first question by estimating the number of high-income households in each area. Minnesota overall has the highest homeownership rate in the nation at 73.6%; Minnetonka is even higher at 74.7%. Residents owning Minnetonka homes have ready access to its 42 community parks, more than 40 miles of trails, and more than 1,000 acres of public open space. Minnetonka jobs rose through out 2012, ending at 28048.

Download the U.S. CENSUS BUREAU report on The Geographic Concentration of High-Income Households: 2007–2011
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Minnetonka home makeovers, whether they start from a homeowners dreams or a broken pipe, can result in becoming the home you may want to live a lifetime in. Call Destiny Homes at 952-934-5706 and ask for Butch or Liz Sprenger for your personal free consultation.