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very day for a living, Albert Lean Kristen Rasmussen goes to work helping people design their dream homes. Employed at Broadway Home Design, she works with top of the line brands, including Cambria, StarMark and Bertch, among several others. Though most of the time she is working on other people’s projects, she said it was fun to put her design skills to use this year when renovating her own home with her husband, Trevor Rasmussen. The couple, who married in September 2017, has been busy making updates to their home, including doors, windows and siding on the exterior, and the flooring and the kitchen on the interior. They joked that the house, which Trevor Rasmussen bought seven years ago before they were married, was a “bachelor pad for many years,” until Kristen Rasmussen came into the picture with a background in design. Little by little, they have renovated the house, turning it into a more modern home with future family goals in mind. “Basically we took an old house that was inexpensive and customized it for us,” she said. The home offers an open floor plan from the front door with the kitchen, dining and living room area all in one large room with white oak hardwood floors spanning all of the rooms.
Kristen and Trevor Rasmussen have been married over a year.
Kristen Rasmussen said she designed the kitchen with materials sold through her workplace, including cabinetry, flooring, countertops, backsplash and hardware. “The kitchen is the heart of every home,” she said. “It’s the place where the best conversations are had, the loudest laughs are made and some of the yummiest memories happen.”
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Basically we took an old house that was inexpensive and customized it for us. — Kristen Rasmussen
The kitchen remodel is Kristen Rasmussen’s favorite project done within the couple’s home so far. 48 | ALBERT LEA MAGAZINE
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She said she enjoys making these things come to life for her customers and has enjoyed doing it in her own home, as well. The cabinets are from the StarMark Cabinetry line out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and are inset — so the doors and drawers sit inside of the box frame instead of what you see more often with overlay cabinets that sit on the outside of the box frame, she said. The cabinets around the perimeter of the room are a warm gray with a custom brush stroke finish, and the island cabinets are graphitecolored with an ebony glaze and include what she described as “oldworld distressing,” which includes rounded corners, knife cuts and worm holes on the cabinets. The hood is stained oregano with a chocolate glaze.