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Craig Wynia 2026 PRESID ENT OF THE HOME BUILD ERS ASSOCIATION OF THE SIOUX EMPIRE

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Windows and Doors: More Than a View

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Windows and doors do much more than provide access, natural light, and views. They play a critical role in a home’s energy efficiency, comfort, security, and overall appearance. As building products continue to evolve, today’s homeowners have more options than ever when it comes to selecting windows and doors that fit both their lifestyle and design preferences.

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HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION LEADERSHIP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President: Craig Wynia, Jeren Homes/Red Rock Builders Vice President: Kyle Cosand, Cosand Construction Second VP: Ryan Brouwer, Choice Builders, Inc Associate VP: Ruth Ann Scott, The Living Door Secretary: Julie Redlin, VanderRight LLC Treasurer: Jim Dunham, Jim Dunham & Associates Past President: Cory Hjellming, Hjellming Construction BOARD OF DIRECTORS Adam Balding, Budget Blinds Daniel Glammeier, Glammeier Homes Jason Whiting, Falls City Construction Josh Johnson, Houston Engineering Nick Mimmack, 1J Homes Peter Ronning, Ronning Companies Sabrina Meierhenry, Land Title Guaranty

STAFF Executive Vice President: Teddi Mueller Government & Safety Director: Todd Anawski Director of Member Engagement: Lisa Contreras Communications Director: Marissa Bertram

Energy efficiency remains a top priority for many homeowners.

Modern windows and doors feature improved insulation, lowemissivity glass coatings, and advanced framing materials that help reduce heat loss in the winter and keep homes cooler during the summer. These innovations improve year-round comfort and can help lower energy costs.

Homeowners are also choosing products that make a statement.

Bold front doors, black window frames, and clean contemporary designs continue to grow in popularity. At the same time, durability and low maintenance remain important considerations, leading many homeowners to select materials that offer long-lasting performance and reliability.

Whether you are building a new home, replacing aging windows, or upgrading your entryways, selecting the right products and ensuring proper installation are key to achieving the best results.

When you’re ready to enhance your home with new windows and doors, trust an HBA member to help guide your project from selection to installation. The Home Builders Association of the Sioux Empire connects homeowners with trusted local professionals who understand today’s products, building standards, and installation practices.

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One of the biggest trends in residential construction is maximizing natural light. Larger windows, expansive patio doors, and thoughtfully placed glass features help create bright, open spaces while strengthening the connection between indoor and outdoor living. Advances in glass technology allow homeowners to enjoy these benefits while maintaining excellent energy performance.

Home Ideas™ Magazine is the preeminent source of home improvement, decorating, remodeling, and home buying information in the Sioux Empire region.

Home Ideas Magazine is published monthly in cooperation with 44i, Inc., Michels Communications Corporation and Home Builders Association of the Sioux Empire. We encourage local home improvement professionals and contractors to submit articles. All articles are subject to publisher’s editing and approval. Please send your articles to the following address: Home Ideas Magazine | PO Box 91606 Sioux Falls, SD 57109 | 605-332-0421 | 605-362-9797 cory@michelscom.com | sara@44i.com | lucas@michelscom.com Home Ideas Magazine does not necessarily endorse or agree with content of articles or advertising presented.

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By Joseph Cottle

Carl Serck will tell you with a laugh that he went to college to get as far away from construction as possible. He grew up in Sioux Falls, spending summers working for the family business, Serck Construction, building custom homes and doing remodel jobs. Carl knew the work inside and out: the framing, the materials, the rhythm of a job site, the particular language spoken between contractors who’ve been doing it for decades.

Graduating from Augustana University, Carl wrestled for the Vikings and walked out into the world looking for something different. He found it, briefly, as a manufacturer’s representative, spending five years on the road selling building product lines. He was good at it. He was also gone several nights a week, and after he got married, that started to wear on him.

“I just got sick of the travel,” Carl admits.

His exit came from an unexpected direction. One of the companies Carl sold to was Homestead Building Supplies, and through those calls, he’d built a relationship with a man named Tim Doyle. When Carl decided he was done with the road, Tim made a call, and Homestead hired Carl 8 n July 2026

as a salesperson out of their Beresford location, with one specific mandate: grow the Sioux Falls market.

Carl did exactly that. Working primarily out of his home, Carl built the company’s Sioux Falls business from the ground up. His background gave him an edge that was hard to replicate; he wasn’t just someone who sold lumber.

He was someone who had grown up on job sites, who understood how a project moved from design to pour to frame to finish, and who could talk to contractors in their own language.

Eventually, Homestead offered Carl and Tim the opportunity to purchase the Beresford location outright.

They took it, built a second location in Worthing, and then combined the operation into Northern Plains Lumber. At the beginning of 2025, Carl bought out his partner. He is now the sole owner.

“I always kind of said I was going to college to get as far away from it as I could,” Carl shares. “And I ended up smack dab right back in the middle of it. Which is great.”

Northern Plains Lumber has grown alongside a market that hasn’t shown many signs of slowing down. But what Carl will point to before he acknowledges anything else is his staff.

When Homestead transitioned to Northern Plains, every employee stayed. When Carl bought out Tim, every

employee stayed again. The only people who have left are the ones who retired.

“We’ve been very fortunate to have great employees who trusted the process,” Carl adds.

That continuity matters because Northern Plains isn’t selling a commodity. They’re selling expertise. The sales staff and support staff include estimators, yard help, and drivers; a significant number of people who came from contracting backgrounds or from the retail side of building materials. They understand estimating. They understand bidding. They know the products, and when they don’t know the answer to a question, they know exactly who to call to find it. wwww.FindHomeIdeas.com n 9

That knowledge gets applied at every stage of a project. Northern Plains’ sales team gets involved early, often at the design and drafting phase, and stays engaged all the way through delivery. The company offers a drafting service, and the staff helps facilitate that process in addition to everything else.

On a given day, someone might be reviewing plans with a new contractor in the morning and helping a longtime customer work through a material takeoff in the afternoon.

“From top to bottom, whether you’re a sales guy or a delivery guy, you wear a lot of hats,” Carl notes. “You contribute in every way that’s needed.”

Delivery is handled by a fleet of self-loading and selfunloading rigs that can drop materials directly on a job site without anyone needing to be there to receive them. That capability matters on a working job site, where schedules shift and crews move. It also means 10 n July 2026

Northern Plains can serve customers efficiently across both the urban Sioux Falls market and the rural areas surrounding their two locations.

Materials get where they need to go, when they need to get there, without adding friction to an already complex process.

Carl describes the Northern Plains Lumber difference plainly: “When you call Northern Plains, you get your salesperson. Your person, in-house, who knows your account and your projects.”

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“You’re not being farmed out to someone in another state,” Carl explains.

“We are privately owned, and all of our staff are local.”

That local identity extends into the community. Northern Plains makes a point of staying involved, financially and materially, wherever they can make a difference. They’ve supported fire departments, sponsored Little League baseball teams, donated materials to Boy Scout projects, and contributed to community events throughout the area. Most recently, Carl’s team donated materials to the Sioux Falls Fire Department to help build a smokehouse used for fire safety education for kids.

It’s not a marketing program. It’s just how a local business that’s been built on relationships tends to operate.

Ask Carl what he loves most about Northern Plains Lumber, and he doesn’t talk about revenue or market share. He talks about the contractors.

“It’s fun to see the growth of certain companies,” Carl states. “They started as just a guy in his pickup and a few tools. And now they’ve got several employees, and they’ve grown their small business into a very large business.

Seeing that growth of our customers as we grow; it’s pretty neat to see.”

That’s the story underneath the story at Northern Plains. Yes, they carry the materials. Yes, they run the trucks, handle the estimates, and answer the phone when you call. But the thing that actually drives the business is a genuine investment in the people building things in this community, and the satisfaction of watching them succeed.

Carl Serck went to college to get away from all of this. He ended up building a successful business in the middle of it.

Turns out that’s exactly where he was supposed to be.

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At 5509 E. Morningside Circle, a warm welcome awaits where natural wood and stone, innovative design and luxury finishes create an exceptional, inviting home.

Located in the Sundance Ridge neighborhood on Sioux Falls’ east side, the property is the third home Custom Vision Homes has built on Morningside Circle.

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in new construction and renovations, bringing a combined 20-plus years of building experience to each project. Thomey’s expertise is in trim carpentry; Travis’s is in home exteriors.

The duo focuses on high-quality luxury construction, maintaining direct oversight of each build from start to finish. For new projects, they collaborate with Omorfia Designs Inc., a professional drafting and design firm, to tailor each home to its owner’s specific needs and aesthetic preferences.

The Morningside Circle home offers five bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and 3,662 square feet of living space across two levels. Stone trim on the exterior and front columns signals the casually elegant design carried throughout the interior.

The living room, entered through grand double doors, features warm, neutral tones and mellow wood finishes. “Warm, relaxing hues on the main level and throughout the house appeal to home buyers,” Thomey explains. Glass doors provide natural light and direct access to a deck overlooking the backyard.

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“We had to do something different because most builders’ houses in the region all look similar. Our last house was really dark and moody with dark walnut and black stains and finishes. For this one, we went completely the other direction,” Thomey shares. “We’ve had a lot of good feedback that ours was different. We actually got told that people were glad it wasn’t gray and white.”

The living room’s stone fireplace, flanked by handcrafted arched white oak built-ins, is the perfect place to unwind. Glass doors in the living room fill it with natural light and offer easy access to the deck that overlooks the backyard.

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The kitchen blends creamy white cabinetry with lighter and darker tones of white oak. Appliances and a walk-in pantry are concealed behind custom-built, stained cabinetry, a design detail Thomey says consistently surprises visitors.

“We like to hide the appliances, and our walk-through pantry fools everybody.” Thomey adds. “Our pantry looks different. People think it’s a cabinet. It looks elegant. It takes a higher-end home to have that.”

The cleverly disguised pantry is fully equipped with electrical outlets, custom cabinetry, rollout shelves and Cambria countertops, providing ample storage and additional food preparation space.

A 10-foot island, stone backsplash, Cambria countertops, brushed gold hardware and Kohler faucets complete the kitchen. Just steps away, the adjacent dining room opens to the deck through glass doors, with stairs leading from the covered composite deck to the backyard.

The main level’s split-floor plan positions the primary suite at the opposite end of the house from two additional bedrooms. Sophisticated wallpaper, pendant lighting and a tray ceiling distinguish the bedroom, while gold finishes, a glass-enclosed shower, custom cabinetry, Cambria countertops and Kohler fixtures define

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the bathroom. A walk-in closet offers custom shelving, drawers and clothing rods.

The lower level is designed for year-round entertaining. A gas fireplace, dining area and custom wet bar, featuring hand-crafted white oak cabinetry inlaid with brass details, anchor the family room.

Two additional bedrooms and a full bathroom provide space for overnight guests.

Thomey and Travis apply the same attention to detail to utilitarian spaces as to primary living areas. The oversized three-stall garage is heated, painted, trimmed and finished with epoxy flooring and a sink.

The adjoining laundry room includes a sink and abundant storage in custom cabinets.

Each of the home’s bathrooms features distinct tile work and custom cabinetry. The builders also pre-insulate each home to improve energy efficiency and reduce air infiltration from wind, weather and dust.

Custom Vision Homes typically spends about a year on each custom build. Throughout the process, Thomey and Travis work alongside a professional drafter, designer and their clients to ensure the finished home meets expectations.

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There’s a certain kind of trust that can’t be manufactured or bought at a trade show. It has to be earned — one countertop, one window frame, one perfectly fitted cabinet door at a time. For more than fifty years, Kitchens & Windows Unlimited has been earning exactly that from Sioux Falls homeowners. And in a city that has seen box stores come and go, that quiet, unbothered longevity says everything.

A Legacy Built Before Most of Its Competitors Were Born The year was 1973. Nixon was in the White House, the Sears Tower had just scraped past the clouds in Chicago, and a small but serious home improvement business quietly opened its doors on North Kiwanis Avenue in Sioux Falls. Rod Sorrell wasn’t building an empire — he was building something more durable than that. He was building a reputation.

Sorrell’s formula was straightforward, almost old-fashioned in the best possible way: carry only products worth standing behind, hire people who genuinely know what they’re doing, and treat every home like it matters. It did then. It still does.

Tim Lund and the Art of the Long Game For years, Tim Lund worked inside that business, present and focused, absorbing every lesson the industry had to teach. He didn’t arrive as an outsider trying to scale something he barely understood. He arrived as someone who had spent his career learning from the man who built it.

When Rod Sorrell decided it was time to hand over the keys in 2006, there was never really any question about who should take them.

“Rod built something real here. You work alongside someone like that for years; you learn pretty quickly that the reason customers keep coming back isn’t the showroom or the product lines — it’s that they trust you. The day I took over, that was the one thing I was most determined not to lose.”

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More than two decades into his ownership, it’s clear he hasn’t. Tim maintains an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and remains an active member of the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce — small signals, perhaps, but they speak to a business philosophy that sees the community not just as a customer base, but as a neighbor.

No Project Too Small. No Vision Too Big. What sets K&W Unlimited apart from every big-box alternative isn’t just the product depth — it’s the depth of thinking they bring to every single job, regardless of scale.

A homeowner might walk through the door needing nothing more than a new set of cabinet doors and a fresh countertop. They’ll receive the same careful attention as someone planning a ground-up kitchen transformation.

Where most remodelers see a kitchen, Tim’s team sees a space with unrealized potential. A wall that shouldn’t be there. A layout that fights against the way a family actually lives. They don’t just fill rooms with beautiful products — they question whether the room itself is the right shape to begin with. Moving walls, reconfiguring floor plans, reimagining light and flow — this is strategic, design-forward thinking that homeowners typically pay a separate architect to access. At K&W Unlimited, it comes standard.

The Brands Behind the Showroom Step inside the 4,000-square-foot showroom and the word “unlimited” starts to make literal sense. The cabinet lineup reads like a who’s who of American craftsmanship: Koch & Co., family-founded in 1989 by Jim, Dan, and Fred Koch; HomeCrest, a three-decade standard-bearer in affordable quality cabinetry; and Merillat, one of the most recognized names in American kitchens. For windows: Sunrise Windows & Doors, Quaker Windows — proudly manufactured in Freeburg, Missouri — and Weather Shield, a company putting customers first since 1955. Surfaces run the full spectrum from Cambria, Silestone and Caesarstone to the enduring American

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Installation Is Not an Afterthought There’s a version of this business that stops at the sale — where a beautiful product gets handed off to whoever shows up with a tape measure. Kitchens & Windows Unlimited is not that business. The installation team carries the same standard of quality as the product lineup itself, because Tim Lund understands a truth too many remodelers ignore: a flawless cabinet in the hands of a mediocre installer is just an expensive disappointment.

Whether it’s fitting custom cabinetry into the unforgiving bones of a 1906 home or executing a seamless window replacement after a South Dakota storm, the crew at K&W Unlimited treats the install as the final, non-negotiable expression of everything the company stands for.

Why a Sioux Falls Homeowner Should Call Them First One customer, Pamela Powell, put it plainly. She bought her cabinets and countertops from K&W Unlimited in 1986. Nearly four decades later, when it was finally time to refresh the countertops, she didn’t consider going anywhere else. That kind of loyalty isn’t luck. It’s the compound interest on fifty years of doing things right.

The home improvement landscape is littered with national franchises, weekend warriors, and discount showrooms that disappear three years after you sign the contract.

Kitchens & Windows Unlimited has been answering the phone at the same address since before most of its competitors existed. They’ll handle a simple countertop refresh or a full structural reimagination with identical care. They design it, source it, fabricate it, install it — and then they answer when you call a year later.

In a market full of promises, fifty-three years is the most convincing thing a company can say.

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A custom home that can fit a homeowner’s budget and adapt to its needs tomorrow is an achievable reality for buyers working with Paul Fick Homes.

The Sioux Falls builder has constructed more than 2,275 homes over 33 years, serving clients across a broad spectrum of budgets from modest to luxury. One of the company’s newest builds, at 904 N. Sylvan Drive, exemplifies that range: a mid-priced, move-in-ready residence designed with long-term flexibility in mind.

The multi-level home offers 2,144 square feet of finished living space, including four finished bedrooms and three bathrooms. Unfinished space on the lower level provides the option to add a fifth bedroom and additional living area as the family’s needs evolve.

The home’s layout is well-suited for both entertaining and busy, everyday life. The primary suite sits just five steps above the main level, while the family room is five steps below it, a tiered arrangement that offers natural separation between spaces without sacrificing connectivity.

“Open, yet private, the home offers buyers both an open concept layout and privacy,” states Amy Lawrence, designer with Paul Fick Homes. “It’s wide-open with sightlines down to the family room on the level below.”

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The heart of the home is the main level, where vaulted ceilings lend an expansive feel to the main-level living and dining area. A covered deck, accessible from the living room, provides an ideal setting for warm-weather gatherings, with stairs leading directly to the backyard and patio for additional outdoor entertaining.

The kitchen features quartz countertops, birch cabinetry and a wraparound peninsula that provides ample prep space. Soft-close drawers, doors and roll-out trays in the peninsula offer practical, organized storage. A pantry off the kitchen doubles as a coffee bar and houses additional storage for small appliances.

For maximum convenience, the laundry room is also on the main level. It doubles as a mudroom connected to the garage and drop zone for shoes, backpacks, and gear before entering the main living areas.

The home’s upper level is dedicated to rest, centered around a spacious primary suite with a walk-in closet. The en-suite bathroom includes

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a tiled shower and a double vanity with birch cabinetry. Two additional bedrooms, one with a walk-in closet, complete the upper level.

The lower level features a generously-sized family room with a gas fireplace and walkout access to a concrete patio and backyard, ideal for outdoor entertaining and recreation. A full bathroom and fourth bedroom round out the level.

The home also includes a spacious triple-stall garage.

Paul Fick Homes works with clients to incorporate or scale back upgrades based on individual preferences and financial goals. The company’s designer is involved throughout the process, regardless of the project’s price point.

“Whether you are buying a $280,000 or a $900,000 house, you can expect the same level of attention and care from all of our team members. We do not cut corners in customer service based on the investment of the home,” Amy shares. “We welcome all budgets and are very clear during the process what would be considered upgrades and what is included with the home. We navigate those upgrades together so that there are no surprises to their budget.”

For 33 years, Paul Fick Homes has brought quality craftsmanship to Sioux Falls. With more than 2,275 homes built, the company has the experience, flexibility, and personal attention to make your vision a reality. Whether you’re a growing family searching for room to expand or a first-time buyer working within a defined budget, their expertise guides clients through every decision, from floor plan to finishes, with no surprises along the way.

To schedule a consultation or learn more about available homes and custom build options, contact Paul Fick Homes today. Your next chapter starts with the right foundation.

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Soft blue cabinetry and warm brass accents feel right at home beneath a striking coffered ceiling, honoring the character of the original space while elevating it for today’s lifestyle. A generous island anchors the room, creating a natural gathering place for everyday moments and effortless entertaining.

Designed by Carissa, this project earned Third Place in a National Design Competition, standing out among more than 100 entries from across the country.

Cabinetry & Design by Carissa Trygstad, Showplace Cabinetry Design Center | Contractor: Boulevard Construction Homeowners: Bob Trzynka and John Marshall

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