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Lynn Underwood

Reporter | Homes

Phone: 612-673-7619

Email: lynn.underwood@startribune.com

Lynn Underwood writes about new home construction, remodeling, architecture, design, decorating and real estate for the Sunday Homes section. She also writes garden-related stories for the Variety Home + Garden section.
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Arts & Crafts homage in Minneapolis

A smartly designed 250-square-foot addition gives a Minneapolis couple the cook-centric kitchen and Old World fireplace they always wanted, while preserving the home's original Arts and Crafts character.

Updated: November 30, 2011, - 10:10 AM

Poinsettias on parade at Conservatory

Plus: Hort Society hosts Gardening Gals Get-Together

Updated: November 22, 2011, - 05:04 PM

'Not So Big House' takes center stage

Sarah Susanka wanted to show people how they can live comfortably with less space.

Updated: November 19, 2011, - 02:34 PM

Cocktail culture comes home

Entertaining at home is more popular than ever with high-style bars designed to create a mood or draw in the whole family.

Updated: November 12, 2011, - 03:57 PM

Medina bungalow harks back

Homegazing: You can have it for $1.049 million -- Angela Johansen didn't want a "cookie-cutter house." So in 2003, she and her partner bought nearly 10 acres in Medina and designed and built a Craftsman-inspired bungalow themselves.

Updated: November 07, 2011, - 09:13 AM

1930s bungalow is reborn in Mpls.

A Minneapolis couple reinvented their modest vintage home with a modern-style addition that blends the old with the new -- and accommodates their growing family.

Updated: November 07, 2011, - 08:57 AM

It's the new-fashioned farmhouse

A barn (repurposed as a community center) and a bucolic setting enticed two longtime city dwellers to build a new home in a Lakeville housing development.

Updated: October 24, 2011, - 08:23 AM

This isn't Old MacDonald's farm

A cutting-edge contemporary farmhouse boasts a half-acre vineyard on the edge of downtown Wayzata. You can have it for $2.5 million

Updated: October 18, 2011, - 12:13 PM

When bathrooms go bad

Philadelphia-based contractor and DIY host Jeff Devlin came to the Twin Cities with an odd goal: finding ugly, outdated bathrooms and the homeowners who hated them

Updated: October 15, 2011, - 05:27 PM

Renovation rookies tackle fixer-upper

Inspired by HGTV shows, novice remodelers tackle a massive Mediterranean home makeover. They spent more than a year on a whole-house renovation, ultimately rebuilding a modern interior within an Old World concrete and stucco shell.

Updated: October 08, 2011, - 04:46 PM