If you missed the 2024 Red River Valley Home & Garden Show, now is your chance to tour one of its brightest highlights – the Inspired Spaces Showcase by NDSU’s third-year Interior Design students. With six teams competing, six professional mentors, big scholarship prizes, and 3,400 votes cast, we’re thrilled to share the students’ vignettes and reveal the winning design!

In Horace, ND, much of the Lost River land had been built on a family legacy that runs 130 years deep, all centered around the Sheyenne River and an abandoned river channel that now flows through the development’s forests, meadows, and prairies. This land, located inside the Sheyenne Diversion, had been truly loved by the Samuelson family, so much so that six generations had lived at the property’s 1889 farmhouse.

She Overcomes was founded in 2020 to empower female founders in our community, and well, sometimes it takes hosting a masquerade to shatter the glass ceiling. In one night of celebration, local artistry, performances, and storytelling, we danced to our own beat and invited everyone to unmask in support of women’s personal and professional progression. Fueled by raw and heartfelt stories of triumph and transformation, this event was all about helping local women from all backgrounds build and grow their businesses. She Overcomes is giving area women the tools to overcome the barriers that stand in the way of our biggest, boldest breakthroughs.

Nestled into north Fargo’s Edgewood neighborhood is an unexpected offspring borne from thoughtful, small-scale innovation. One could even say it’s a new lifestyle blueprint designed by Craftwell Architecture + Construction and the home’s evolving family of four.

Get your one-finger wave ready (pointer finger, please) because we’re headed straight out of Fargo and into the country, roughly 25 minutes south of the city. Maybe Colfax, pop. 270 hasn’t been programmed into your navigation yet, but it definitely should be.

After completing her master’s at the University of Bristol in Bristol, UK, then living in Minneapolis and Manhattan, this local designer has happily returned home to Fargo’s historic Hawthorne neighborhood.