Home & Yard
Catch a VIBE: Find Your New Home with VIBE Realty!
If you’re searching for a new home in the Twin Cities, and you don’t know where to turn, look no further than VIBE Realty! Founded in 2018, this LGBTQ+ owned real estate brokerage located in the Cathedral Hill neighborhood of Saint Paul is revolutionizing the realty game, all while making sure to keep people at…
Just Add A Water Garden To Your Home
Want a suggestion on how to elevate your backyard? Add water. Not just watering your lawn and garden. Just add a water feature to create a new atmosphere to your sanctuary. Having a water garden adds many benefits to your home. Getting there takes a lot of work and planning. We asked Jan Schreier of…
A Word In Edgewise: A Remembrance of Gardens Gone
A friend’s gift of surplus garden produce worked a bit of Proustian magic the other day. As I stir-fried the green beans and tender yellow squash, the scent of summer, garlic, and goodness whisked me back into time and reverie. First, into the sixties of the previous century, when Euell Gibbons’ best-seller, Stalking the Wild…
How LGBTQ+ Business Owner Kristofer Bowman Opened Dream Store: Upstate MN
Kristofer Bowman’s retail shop on the North Shore of Grand Marais is a long-realized dream from childhood. Bowman grew up on the Iron Range of Minnesota and noticed a sweet environment surrounding the North Star State as a child. “I think I was always moving back to Minnesota. I always thought it would be Minneapolis,…
Modern Barnyard: St. Cloud’s Staple Switches It Up
“We’ve kind of been St. Cloud’s best-kept secret for the first couple of years. We were super busy, but a lot of people didn’t even know we were here because we kind of ran on social media alone,” Jim Beck, co-owner and operator of Modern Barnyard, a St. Cloud-based business, told Lavender Magazine. Modern Barnyard’s…
Home Refresh: Combine Beauty with Functionality
Spring and summer are a time of renewal and growth. People start home projects to improve their space and the real estate market heats up. Chazin Interiors has seen and done it all, working with clients not only on interior design, but also staging their home to sell at top dollar prices. “It’s not as…
Diversity Homeownership Fair Opens Up Opportunities
Home ownership is a dream for many of us. It is the epitome of the American Dream. Yet, local housing prices and mortgage rates are on the rise. Is there still hope for us to own a home today? Perhaps. On Saturday, May 20, the Twin Cities Diversity Homeownership Fair will be held at the…
Window Shopping – Renewal By Andersen Takes The Pain Out Of Pane Shopping
It might start subtly. It might start with a wooden stile grinding against a wooden casing as a wooden sash rises. It might start with a ghost-like chill inspired by passage, or a ghost-like fog benighting the palisade–the colder and the wetter the outside, the bigger the haunting. It might start even more subtly than…
New Spaces Is an Innovative Take on Home Remodels (Just in Time for Spring!)
Have you ever looked around your kitchen, bathroom, or perhaps your entire home and wished you could be on one of those TV shows? You know, the ones where they swoop in and like magic — poof! Your house is remodeled. Well New Spaces doesn’t work quite like magic, but they are an innovative company…
From the Editor: Home is Where The Heart Is
Home is where the heart is. You can feel the essence of home whenever you walk into the door, take off your shoes and get comfortable after a tough day’s work. It is the goal for any of us who put in the time to take advantage of your domain to relax, recover, and settle…
