Design Philosophy

Your home is more than a house. It is a place that both shapes and expresses your identity, a place that can simultaneously nurture and frustrate. My travels, research and experience have enhanced within me the ability to understand you as a client, how you live, how you want to live, and how to make tangible the nuances that make a home more than a house.

My work is collaborative, between you as the client and myself as designer and craftsman, working together to bring the project to life. My style of working has evolved over time, as I myself have grown and changed, but core to that style is a devotion to creating genuine spaces and objects that speak to personal identities.

My first experience with this was at 22 years of age, when I was building my first home. Without fully realizing it, until it was completed, I was building a small home that was a collage of all the happy spaces and details from fond childhood homes. My grandparents attic style bedroom under the eaves, large, open windows, a feeling of age and permanence. Later apartments and homes would feel just right by intangibles such as a smell that reminded me of my grandparents homes, a grand staircase from my earliest memories of home, a wrap-around porch, like the one that was my playroom. This is how I experience Design.

My best projects evolve from a combination of collaborative conversation and quiet contemplation. I believe in listening to a space or object, and what it is trying to tell me it is willing to be. Exploring the possibilities in order to find the appropriate design response is part of the conversation we explore together.

I offer a wide range of custom design options tailored specifically for your project. I also provide a range of furniture repair and restoration services. I am proud of my work, and aim to build long-term relationships with all of my clients, regardless of the size of their project.

Jaxon Ke'anoi Bonsack

I live and work in Minneapolis, a place I have proudly called home for nearly 20 years. My partner and I own an 1886 Victorian that we've been preserving and personalizing for over ten years. We happily share it with our exuberant and loving pets, our friends, our family, and our neighbors. It is a labor of love, just like all of my work, and something I am proud to preserve and share with future generations.