Gilded Victorian
GILDED 👑 VICTORIAN of 1905
⛔️ WARNING ⚠️ the visual representation of this previously-unwanted-structure will leave you feeling creatively and artfully incompetent, proceed with caution, esp if you’re Costco members, behind the curtain. To fully comprehend the sensory overload in this offering, like all things Rare Form, we have to travel back in time to the origins of Kingfield’s settling era pilgrimage in the turn of the century.
It’s 1981, interest rates hit a 30yr high of 18.36% & Paul & Anne Pederson landed ‘Gilded of 1905’. Their growing family was bursting from her original footprint, and by 1988 they dug the 🕳 for her three story post-modern addition. The plan was simple; provide a reprieve from original 4 square bedroom layout, creating the kid wing, and add owners suite, basement rec and main floor family rooms.
What was also simple, the obscure style by which they mated 1988 to 1905, resulting in a large yet unsophisticated interior, lacking a direction and flow between the two left the user feeling chaotic about the changes in finishes and flow, a grind on the mental gears. In their 36 years, the Pederson’s decided it was time to downsize into a duplex manifesto. They publicly listed their unicorn structure on double width corner lot and had a disappointing result as basic buyers and their unimaginative brokers passed on her MLS display over 6 months of market time.
Enter the lens of sweat equity, owner of record, fortune favors the bold, creating your own the old fashioned way is all things Rare Form.
Fresh off their opening starter home conquest in Minnehaha, our art school contemporary duo with analytical task manager clients were fitting applicants for 1905’s courtship into modern day. What happened next is pure visual design-decor-gasm, the brilliance is only experienced referencing this history, in knowing the marriage that happened under the creative pen 🖊 & knife 🔪 from 2017 to today.
4402 Pillsbury Avenue South
mls copy: The Gilded Victorian of Kingfield, a sprawling footprint (1384') original 1906 farmhouse with three story addition by prior owner, that was the design vision and production of Design in Rare Form. Rarities abound on Gilded- a hilltop corner double lot measuring 75 wide nearly a quarter acre in Kingfield. Rift Sawn white oak custom kitchen, Fisher Paykel & Capital Commercial Range under vent-a-hood. Unicorn scale for Kingfield: two living rooms on main (formal and informal media), rear mudroom and entry porch, original upper level offers 3 bedroom wing with full bath, and private owners suite over main floor addition with designer spec cle' tile bath radiant floors and custom closets. Crow's nest 3rd floor office. Lower level has storage built laundry room and finished lower level for family zone! Exterior greenspace is outstanding for entertaining: cedar lined privacy fence, pergola and mini kitchenette, must see classic home TV.
