Back at you with a quick little post about the library we did for the clients whose kitchen I shared last month. We normally handle all the design services for our clients in-house with our super talented designer but occasionally the homeowner themselves happens to be a super talented designer. Such was the case on this project when we partnered with the wonderful Michelle Oettmeier.
It’s a small world, indeed. This particular story proves it through and through. Back in 2007 and 2008 we partnered with some past clients to build a house in Mission Hills. It was a speculative project and was scooped up by a lovely family at completion. Fast forward several years and this lovely family became quite close with some new out of town neighbors that moved in one door down. Dinners were shared and visits to each others’ homes became a frequent occurence. Meanwhile Scovell did a little work here and there for these new neighbors on their 1920s home.
For an often overlooked space in a house, the quiet mudroom sure does a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to keeping the chaos of the day at bay. The stray coat here, the scattered boots there, the barrage of backpacks, the forgotten grocery bags and just stuff from day to day life. Barring a designated storage spot, these things so often find their way onto the floor, or worse, trickle into the adjoining kitchen or living room.
I must say when it comes to houses I can’t make up my mind. There are just too many styles I love. Too many color palettes I’m drawn to. Clean and white. Dark and moody. I just can’t decide! For instance, I’m all about an all marble bathroom. And yet I can also get along just fine with some hardwoods in the bathroom.
Home is where the heart is, but it’s also where your entire family is 24-hours a day right now. It might have you thinking about a room that needs some help. We’re now offering E-Design for all “pull and replace” projects!
To our clients, friends and neighbors – we are thinking of you all right now as you’re hunkered down in your homes, many of which we’ve had the privilege of working on over the years.
I still remember when the call came through a couple years ago. A woman had seen this picture in an advertisement in Spaces Magazine: And it dawned on her that just as this bathroom in the ad was once the sleeping porch of an old Brookside home, so too could her Brookside sleeping porch become…
I was telling a client the other day that we’ve never turned a generally unhappy person into a happy person with a beautiful remodel. But what we’re really good at is making happy people even happier. As was the case with these incredible Mission Hills clients. Authentically kind, always trusting and super complimentary at every…
Once upon a time, John and I owned a condo near the Nelson Atkins Art Gallery. Little Annie spent a couple of her first years of life there until Quig came along with loud lungs and forced our family into a free-standing home out of the earshot of neighbors. Super thoughtful of us to move…
Wow, it’s been a long, long time since I last blogged. Yikes! Apparently having a third child and adopting a black lab adds quite a bit to your plate. And when said plate was already rather full, things get a little dicey. I feel like I’ve been in survival mode since early winter! But now…
