Home Tours 2009: Patti and Robbie Soskin | Hopkins

Entertaining is routine for Patti Soskin, one of the owners of the popular Yum! Kitchen and Bakery in St. Louis Park. “Our house is always filled with people,” she says. “We probably had 50 kids over for dinner last week. That’s just how it works.” So when she and husband Robbie, CEO of Compass Marketing in Minneapolis, began renovating their 1940s Hopkins home, entertaining needs ranked high on the priority list. “What had been four separate rooms opened up completely,” Patti says of the plan by Julie Snow Architects. “We now have one great space where everyone is together.” Walls of floor-to-ceiling windows further the engaging feel. “The first day it snowed, our daughter, Maddie, said, ‘I love this house—it’s like living in a snow globe,’ ” Patti says.

The renovation was almost as rewarding as the result, and the Soskins are quick to credit their design team—including architect Snow, project architect Tyson McElvain, interior designer Connie Lindor, builder Streeter & Associates, and cabinetmaker Brad Braaten—for making it fun. Working relationships have now developed into good friendships, Patti says. “They’ll probably be forever connected to us.”