Those that know me well know my aversion to driving. So when the call came in to travel out to Lake Quivira for a kitchen project, I rather thought I’d like to pass. Luckily, Jim doesn’t share my distaste for highways and out he went. And it’s a darn good thing as this turned out…
Oh, and while you’re here… Finish that sentence a million different ways. Look at our kitchen…Look at our porch…Do you mind glancing at our laundry room? May as well take a quick peek at the guest bath…you know – while you’re here. It’s no big deal, but, while you’re here do you have a second to see playroom?…
As much as I’ve loved living outside of Kansas City at different times in my life, the fact that I’m now raising my children less than a tenth of a mile from my childhood home is such a treat. Pushing a stroller down the same sidewalk I was pushed down. Ringing the same neighbors’ doorbells…
I’ll be honest. I wasn’t terribly excited about this project when Jim brought it to the Scovell team. Not at all. I tend to be drawn to projects we can really sink our teeth into – full gut remodels, additions, the like. This wasn’t that at all. It was a little work here. A little…
Back in September of 2017, we interviewed some of our most famous Kansas City clients about their, at the time, in-progress kitchen remodel. And now, finally, it’s time to look back and see where we landed! Both professional chefs and owners of some of Kansas City’s most lauded and successful restaurants, these clients were sorely…
When you’ve been around long enough – that is to say, you’re old, Jim – you get the opportunity to remodel the same house (the same room even!) twice. Over twenty years ago Scovell was invited by this Mission Hills couple to remodel their “his” and “hers” master bathrooms. And in 2016 we were invited…
This isn’t the first, and certainly hope it won’t be the last, time I write about a Scovell project for these longtime, loyal clients of ours. After touching nearly every corner of the interior of the home over the last decade, from a screened porch addition out the back to the kitchen all the way…
As we design kitchens for our clients, I never make the assumption that the space will be predominantly for cooking. In fact, it’s one of the first questions I ask during the design phase: why are you wanting a new kitchen? Is it truly for a better cooking experience? Or is it so you can tuck…
As my kids have gotten older (and by older I mean are no longer babbling toddlers, but now can officially walk and talk!) and begun socializing with little friends at the park and in the neighborhood, I’ve joined the parent-to-parent small talk club. The conversation usually starts with “How old’s your daughter/son?” followed by “Is this…
Maybe it’s a millennial thing, but I’m such a mover at heart. I could move into a new home every two years. And for the last ten years, we basically have. Moving doesn’t faze me. I love doing it. It energizes me. It energizes my husband, too. I hardly understand people who dread moving. A new space; a change of…
