Interior Design Tips for Lake Minnetonka with Laura from Laura Wiedmann Interior Design shot on location at 3020 Watertown Road Orono MN 55356 discussing the options to update the color palette of the Steiner & Koppelman craftsman built home in 2000.  After walking the home and discussing the current finishes, Paul Johnson and Laura Wiedmann head over to the KDR Showroom in Minneapolis for a first hand look at the numerous materials and colors options that will update the look and feel that today's demanding home buyer is looking for.

"It looks completely different Paul, but there is so much potential with that home. The sky is the limit."

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We are at my 3020 Watertown Road, Orono MN 55356 listing to meet with my friend Laura Wiedmann, from Laura Wiedmann Interior Design, to talk about or solve the problem that buyers and sellers are having with today's real estate that has dated color palettes.

Laura.

Hello there.

Hey.

How are you?

Good. Welcome. This is the house we were talking about.

OK, great. I'm so excited.

So Laura, we walked around this Steiner & Koppelman craftsman build. Again, built in 2000. Unbelievable woodwork throughout, but what are your thoughts on the color palette?

Interior Design Tips for Lake Minnetonka

The color palette in this home tends to lean warm toned. And so, we've got a lot of wood. There's a lot of beautiful crown molding in the home. And even with the granite here it does tend to go more into the warm, but it does have the cool. So, I think there's great opportunity to change the color palette and it's very easy to do.

Awesome, so there is opportunity like you are saying to work with what's here, but to update it to someone's standards for what they're looking for today.

Absolutely. It's so easy. A simple change of paint, a backsplash update. Even doing just a different kind of tile. The grand here is so gorgeous already that I believe that that is very doable to even stay. You could switch it out though.

Wonderful. I mean is there examples? Or what would your thoughts be for examples?

I do believe that what we can do is simply re-stain the floors and kill some of the warm orange tone which tends to send us back into the early 2000s when the home was built. It's so easy to modernize it by simply adding some grains and darker tones to the home.

Well, that's great news what you're saying. Bones are good. Options are plentiful. What's the next step?

Instead of me talking about it, why don't we head over to the showroom and I can show you?

Hey that sounds great. Let's go.

Tell me about this color palette and what you've put together for the home.

This is a color palette that tends to lean a little bit more on the masculine side, but it's very well balanced with femininely as well. It tends to have high contrast between the navies and taupes and creams. With the home, with changing a couple of things like a paint, refinishing the floors or new hardwood floors, we can create our palette that would accept this beautifully. It's got a lot of nautical inspiration, you're close to the lake.

I love it.

It looks completely different Paul, but there is so much potential with that home. The sky is the limit.

So, we're on the other end of the color palette spectrum. Tell me a little bit about the textures, the materials involved here.

In this color palette, which tends to lean a little bit more on the feminine side, softer colors. We've got warms and cools happening. I did actually keep the same wallpaper book out as the last design to show how versatile a grass cloth wallpaper would be in the dining room and then it would cater to so many looks between this and the one prior. This palette has a lot of soft feminine textiles, there's linens. It would cater very well with the architecture of the home, being a French country. And it also goes very, very well with the existing countertops, because it has the cool tones and the warm tones. So, this is a pallet that could move very easily into the home.

Awesome. It looks beautiful. And you can definitely tell like you said the textures are definitely much more prevalent here. Thanks again for your time. I appreciate your insight. Obviously, the value you add in helping us envision what's available, I think that's the biggest thing that just lacks-- and it's really tough to do. And I think that's the value obviously that you bring to the table and to provide some direction for that personal touch.

Interior Design Tips for Lake Minnetonka