The Founders Residence
The Founders Residence
A Modern Colonial Revival, Reimagined for the Way We Live Now
By Revision | Wayzata, MN | Completed 2025
Some homes carry the weight of history in their bones. You can feel it in the symmetry of the faƧade, the quiet authority of a shuttered window, the way a central entry invites you in without announcing itself too loudly. The Founders Residence in Wayzata, Minnesota is exactly that kind of home and what Revision has accomplished here is something rarer than a renovation. It's a reinvention with a conscience.
The Vision: Tradition as a Starting Point, Not a Constraint
When Revision's team took on The Founders Residence, the challenge wasn't to modernize a classic, it was to liberate it. The home's bones were sound, its Colonial Revival character worthy of deep respect. But the interiors had grown compartmentalized, closed off from light and from themselves. The transformation began with a deceptively simple question: What should this home feel like to live in?
The answer shaped every decision that followed.
Exterior: Symmetry That Speaks
From the street, The Founders Residence is a study in restraint and confidence. Its balanced faƧade, shuttered windows, and composed central entry honor classical proportions without sliding into pastiche. This is not a replica of the past, it's a respectful conversation with it. The architecture feels settled and permanent, as though it has always belonged precisely where it stands on the shores of Lake Minnetonka.
Interiors: Light, Flow, and the Art of Considered Warmth
Step inside, and the home opens in a way that surprises. Structural adjustments were made not for drama, but for connection, between rooms, between people, and between the indoors and the natural world beyond the glass. Ceilings breathe with warm oak beams that introduce quiet architectural rhythm overhead, grounding each space without weighing it down.
The material palette is a masterclass in restraint: layered whites that shift subtly with the light, honed stone that rewards a second look, and tailored millwork that whispers rather than shouts. Nothing here competes for attention; everything contributes.
The Kitchen: Where Craft Meets Daily Life
At the heart of the home, the kitchen earns its place as both functional anchor and gathering destination. A sculptural walnut island commands the room with the kind of presence that makes people pull up a stool and linger. Polished brass accents catch the light just so. The millwork is bespoke, composed, and built to outlast trends by decades. This is a kitchen designed not for a magazine shoot, but for Tuesday mornings and Sunday afternoons alike.
The Great Room: Permanence as a Design Language
A stone fireplace. Exposed beams overhead. The great room at The Founders Residence establishes its purpose immediately, this is a room for gathering, for slowing down, for the kind of conversations that actually matter. The materiality here is deliberate: warmth, texture, and weight in service of a space that feels earned rather than assembled.
The Result: Composed, Not Decorated
What Revision has delivered with The Founders Residence isn't an update, it's a legacy. Every structural choice, material selection, and design decision was made in service of a home that feels simultaneously settled and alive. A home that honors its roots while making room for everything its next chapter holds.
This is what it looks like when craftsmanship is treated as a philosophy, not just a skill set.
Remodeled by Revision, the renovation division of Stonewood, based in Wayzata, MN.
Modern Colonial Revival | Transitional Interiors | Completed 2025
Wayzata, Minnesota
A Modern Colonial Revival, Reimagined for the Way We Live Now
By Revision | Wayzata, MN | Completed 2025
Some homes carry the weight of history in their bones. You can feel it in the symmetry of the faƧade, the quiet authority of a shuttered window, the way a central entry invites you in without announcing itself too loudly. The Founders Residence in Wayzata, Minnesota is exactly that kind of home and what Revision has accomplished here is something rarer than a renovation. It's a reinvention with a conscience.
The Vision: Tradition as a Starting Point, Not a Constraint
When Revision's team took on The Founders Residence, the challenge wasn't to modernize a classic, it was to liberate it. The home's bones were sound, its Colonial Revival character worthy of deep respect. But the interiors had grown compartmentalized, closed off from light and from themselves. The transformation began with a deceptively simple question: What should this home feel like to live in?
The answer shaped every decision that followed.
Exterior: Symmetry That Speaks
From the street, The Founders Residence is a study in restraint and confidence. Its balanced faƧade, shuttered windows, and composed central entry honor classical proportions without sliding into pastiche. This is not a replica of the past, it's a respectful conversation with it. The architecture feels settled and permanent, as though it has always belonged precisely where it stands on the shores of Lake Minnetonka.
Interiors: Light, Flow, and the Art of Considered Warmth
Step inside, and the home opens in a way that surprises. Structural adjustments were made not for drama, but for connection, between rooms, between people, and between the indoors and the natural world beyond the glass. Ceilings breathe with warm oak beams that introduce quiet architectural rhythm overhead, grounding each space without weighing it down.
The material palette is a masterclass in restraint: layered whites that shift subtly with the light, honed stone that rewards a second look, and tailored millwork that whispers rather than shouts. Nothing here competes for attention; everything contributes.
The Kitchen: Where Craft Meets Daily Life
At the heart of the home, the kitchen earns its place as both functional anchor and gathering destination. A sculptural walnut island commands the room with the kind of presence that makes people pull up a stool and linger. Polished brass accents catch the light just so. The millwork is bespoke, composed, and built to outlast trends by decades. This is a kitchen designed not for a magazine shoot, but for Tuesday mornings and Sunday afternoons alike.
The Great Room: Permanence as a Design Language
A stone fireplace. Exposed beams overhead. The great room at The Founders Residence establishes its purpose immediately, this is a room for gathering, for slowing down, for the kind of conversations that actually matter. The materiality here is deliberate: warmth, texture, and weight in service of a space that feels earned rather than assembled.
The Result: Composed, Not Decorated
What Revision has delivered with The Founders Residence isn't an update, it's a legacy. Every structural choice, material selection, and design decision was made in service of a home that feels simultaneously settled and alive. A home that honors its roots while making room for everything its next chapter holds.
This is what it looks like when craftsmanship is treated as a philosophy, not just a skill set.
Remodeled by Revision, the renovation division of Stonewood, based in Wayzata, MN.
Modern Colonial Revival | Transitional Interiors | Completed 2025
Wayzata, Minnesota
Project Year: 2025
