The Journey of Multiple Projects with Clients

My repeat clients have taken me to Wisconsin, Vermont, Wyoming, Montana and the Cayman Islands. For some we have designed their third or fourth project with SALA. For one couple we have developed three remodel / additions to their suburban Twin Cities home, a second home on Madeline Island, and a third home in Jackson Hole.

For Jim and Donna Onstott there have been three projects with our firm. One of my favorite designs was their rural farmhouse in Wisconsin thirty years ago. The ideas are an amalgam of vernacular four square house and the space planning of one of the founders of modern architecture Adolf Loos. It’s a small home in an amazingly bucolic setting. I think of it as one that both my farmer father and my academic dean would find interest in.

SALA Architect Dale Mulfinger

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The Onstott’s growing sheep population had been looking for additional grazing land after fifteen years and thus they moved to a farm with an existing home. My partner Wayne Branum designed an addition / remodel for that structure.

In 2013 the Onstott’s retired from farming to expand their passion for nature expeditions in Yellowstone Park. They purchased land near Livingston, Montana and asked me once again to take on the design of a new home. By 2014 the home was under construction, the farm sold, and Jim and Donna and dogs found themselves living in a garage at their new site. They could oversee construction a few days each week and still have ample opportunity for photo forays into Yellowstone.

SALA Architect Dale Mulfinger

SALA Architect Dale Mulfinger

SALA Architect Dale Mulfinger