Tour This Cozy Industrial Minnesota Lake Home With Dashing DIYs in Every Room

Kate Chipinsiki is a proud mom of two little girls and wife to a handy husband named Mike living in a renovated lake house in Minnesota. The DIYer, eco-friendly designer and home renovator has a knack for upcycling ordinary objects into rustic, industrial works of art. A former co-worker encouraged Kate to start an Instagram featuring her DIY projects, and the rest is handmade history. "I got into DIY design pretty much when we moved into this house," Kate says. "I had been looking for two years for a house on the lake, and I looked at this house and was like, 'This is it.' It was old. It was smelly. But everything I saw looked cosmetic and things that I could easily fix. So we just DIYed our way through the house."

"[The living room] is the first thing that we did when we moved into the house," Kate shares. "It was a red brick, so I painted it white, and that really set the tone for creating all the spaces that are adjacent to it." The space also features one of several hidden design hacks. “We wanted to get an art TV, but it was a little expensive. So I said, ‘We’ll just make a frame, and I can buy a tapestry and cover it up when it’s not in use.'”

"I also love bringing outdoor elements inside," Kate says. "And something that you’ll see scattered throughout my whole house are bowls of moss or dried hydrangeas."

"The other side of the double-sided fireplace goes into the dining room," Kate says. "Another thing that Mike made me recently [is] a frame to hang above the mantel. I wanted it where I could easily interchange artwork. [Now] there is an old [player] piano reel, and I have all of these books displayed here, too."