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Jordan Gottsacker had barely shed her training wheels when her parents set her career in motion. Brian and Rose Gottsacker were building the house Jordan would ultimately grow up in, and the family took frequent drives around Sheboygan, Wisconsin, looking at homes and visiting the nearby Kohler Design Center showroom for kitchen and bath inspiration. “That was a huge part of my childhood,” says Jordan, who sparked to both architecture and interior design.
A couple of decades later (including five years working at Kohler), Jordan now owns a design studio and boutique in downtown Sheboygan. And she recently took on her parents’ “new” new home, a tired 1970s split-level on 12 acres of farmland in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Although hiring Jordan was a no-brainer, says Brian, figuring out how to remake the house that came wi