Designer Anne McDonald channels the North Shore’s Scandinavian roots with primary hues, vintage finds, and smart updates to a modest 1970s home

In the living room of a Grand Marais, Minnesota, cottage designed by Anne McDonald for a Twin Cities–based couple, a Nickey Kehoe ottoman upholstered in Svenskt Tenn’s Textile Mirakel sits beside a custom sofa in heavyweight Firebrick linen by Rose Uniacke . Two vintage armchairs by Henning Kjaernulf join a striped Huxley lounge chair by Lawson & Fenning , upholstered in Claremont’s Carraux de Tours. “I chose durable fabrics and furnishings that can stay in this family as their lives change and they eventually live here full-time,” McDonald says.

When Anne McDonald ’s client reached out to her about their Minnesota getaway cabin, she had already been following the AD PRO Directory designer’s work for about a year.…