Photo gallery: September Home of the Month

More from this series:

• Towering achievement
  Architect Wayne Branum faced a difficult challenge: Designing a house for himself that connects him to the land and his art.
• Modern love
  Minneapolis architect Mark Larson's clients were smitten with this unusual North Oaks house, rumored to be built for a bachelor doctor who was a fan of modern design.
• Urban edge in the country
  Leanne Stremcha’s roots in Northfield, Minn., run deep. Her great-grandparents homesteaded there, she’s lived there most of her life and she’s been a Northfield Master Gardener for more than a decade.
• Attic inspiration
  Outgrown your house, but don't want to move? This month's Home of the Month selection shows you how to revamp a wasted attic space and an outdated kitchen on a budget.
• A new angle
  How do you build a house that doesn't turn its back on the landscape? The latest Home of the Month selection shows you how.
• Milled for retirees
  This riverfront condominium with a bird's-eye view is a lesson in universal design.
• Homes of the Month for May 2006 - April 2007
  Home of the Month program, a partnership between the Star Tribune and AIA Minnesota, begins its fourth year on May 6 with a new round of 12 projects selected by a jury that included Brian MacKay-Lyons, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Ltd.; John Cuningham, Cuningham Group Architecture, Renee Cheng, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota. Here's a tentative line-up of those projects, watch for them on the first Saturday of every month.
• New room for living
  
• Home of the month: Light and angles
  
• Like-new house fits an old block in Minneapolis
  A Minneapolis family faced a familiar problem: Reinvest in their cramped and boring house, or move to a bigger, better house.
• 'Superior Split’ lives up to name
  Cracked down the middle and twisted about by a Lake Superior squall? No, built by a father for his daughter and her family, this North Shore getaway proves that two halves really do make a whole.
• A roomier rambler
  After a first-time home buyer yearned for more light in his 1960s St. Paul rambler, a whole-house transformation gave him that and more without adding expensive square footage.
• Updating the dated
  Our latest Home of the Month selection demonstrates how a new center island can carry an outdated St. Paul house into the 21st century, and why it doesn't always make sense to make the new part of the house match the old.
• Up on the farm
  Architect Wayne Branum's instructions were to design an economical house for a 155-acre site in rural Wisconsin, one sympathetic to its agrarian setting, but with a modern twist. Here are five lessons from that project.
• The transformation
  The Transformation: How architect Mark Larson improved the function of this boxy, multi-level house without adding an inch of space to its layout.