Autumn forest under morning fog in Minnesota lake country.

Custom homes

A home designed around your life.

New custom homes in every style, from a quiet Edina street to a lot on the water. Lake homes are our signature.

Lake country, October.

Design starts with listening

Craftsmanship makes it real.

Before there are plans, there are questions. Who gathers here, and when? Where do the boots go? What should you see when you first come downstairs?

A custom home with Ivy Lane begins with how your household lives. Then we shape the design around it: proportion first, natural light, and materials that age well. The result should fit like a hand in a glove.

Every style, one standard

It’s not matching colors. It’s thoughtful design.

We build modern, traditional, cottage and lodge, and everything between. The style is yours. The standard is the one we hold for our own family’s home.

Luxury

Materials, craft and service that need no explaining.

Quality

Built to the standard of our own family’s home.

Timeless

Homes that look like they were always there.

A lake at dusk, with lights from shoreline homes reflecting on the water.
Lake country at dusk.

Our signature

Lake homes, made timeless.

A lake home is built around the water: the view from the kitchen, the walk to the dock, the porch in August and the fire in January. We know the shoreline setbacks, the county and DNR rules, and the details that make a lake house work in all four seasons.

Where we build

Investment

Clear numbers from the start.

Project pricing is pending confirmation. Project availability and the responsible team are confirmed before an engagement.

New custom homesTo be confirmed

Design and construction of a new home, on your lot.

Project budgetsTo be confirmed

Estate homes and lake properties of every scale.

The path to keys

Five steps, explained before you start.

Conversation, design and pricing, permits, construction, and keys and warranty. At each step you’ll know what we know, what we don’t yet, and what you decide next.

Our process

Start a conversation.

Tell us about the home you have in mind, or the one you already love. We will tell you what we know, what we don’t yet, and what you decide next.