4909 5th Ave S. Field MPLS
🥂 Open House Sunday May 24th 12-2 🥂

Enter Rosie the Riveter: proof yet again that your starter home play matters. Rachel & Andy landed this creekside 1.5 bungalow in 2014. The move then was affordability, and locational upside. We delivered, after talking them out of several average plays. The Riveter possessed a modern flow and several of the large ticket items were handled, allowing the Hills to focus on the funky-pop-art of cosmetic updates that give instant feedback to the senses.

Listing in Rare Form is disrupting the net sheets of sellers across Minneapolis. Becoming the ‘owner of record’ is lucrative on the sale side, and blissful on the buy-side, as homes of this level of curation are hard to come by in the period originality category. The Hills trusted the process, and completed a stem to stern update of the Riveter. Her weaknesses have been evaluated by our design time and eliminated by our craft trades.

We’re proud to present this polished offering for summer torch passing that blends affordability, Mpls finest schools, & steps off the Minnehaha creek trails. Curated over the past 6-8 weeks, Rosie now presents:

lighting spec on all three floors
baths updated in jewel sprayed enamel, updated finishes & fixtures in both water closets.
kitchen was thoroughly scrubbed with stacked kiln fired tile, new cooks range and sprawling fridge, the bay window was trimmed in bench nook for added social mixing with her island.

Where do we begin with vintage baths. Such an alarming percentage of them have been demolished for our vain-trend-chasing culture. Examples like this, while not completely original, the floor alone is a mind-numbing. Deidre murdered the selection on this, and our hanger completed tight seams, even on the plate-covers, the period porcelain sconces made the space. We place such an emphasis into modernizing the usability and highlighting the ancestors of craftsmanship, we truly hope you agree to save the period original bath. (Yeaha, that right, piss-off HGTV)

Deidre of Design in Rare Form:

When presented with a house that was previously flipped, I like to find the strengths of the home and problem solve how to make those elements shine. At the Riveter there we were lucky enough to find an original limestone fireplace,(unpainted!), architectural arches and the original bathroom floor tile.

We chose a green tile for the fireplace hearth to complement the warm red undertones of the stone to replace the big box solution that was previously there. Since the home was built in 1949, we made the decision to include contemporary lighting that nods at the mid-century era of the home throughout the space.

Wallpaper is not solely about making something look good; it’s about making the next owner of record love and embrace the original features of the home. The paper we chose for the bathroom is a modernized vintage pattern. The floral print nods at trends from the 30s and 40s but is updated with the color palette and large scale.

Since the original lights were replaced when the house was originally remodeled, we of course made the effort to put back what might have been with petal shaped, ceramic sconces.