I can’t think of a better way to have started off this Monday morning (okay, maybe I can…) than to open my inbox to see that Scovell Wolfe has been awarded Best of Houzz Design 2015! Very cool. And from what I can tell only 10 Kansas City home-related firms were awarded in this particular division!…
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6 Things We Love at Kansas City’s Ikea
So I think it’s time already. I mean Ikea has officially been open for months now. And anyone who wants to has had the chance to go visit the store. Which begs the question – what did you think? Did it live up to the hype? Or was it a major bomb? In years past my…
BEFORE AND AFTERS OF OUR KITCHEN OF THE YEAR
As the year comes to a close, we’ve spent some time looking back on 2014 and all it’s brought. I would hate for this month to come to a close without celebrating one of our most inspiring projects in Fairway, KS. I took a minute to look with more depth at the mudroom/laundry room component of…
GIVEAWAY #5: HANDMADE, ENGRAVED CUTTING BOARD
3D Woodworks in Kansas City has recently launched a foray into custom cutting boards. The gorgeous boards they’re producing come in a variety of wood species – from alternating walnut and maple, walnut and padauk, and walnut and purple heart or a board exclusively of walnut. They finish it off with your initials. Oh, and you can…
GIVEAWAY #2: LE CREUSET DUTCH OVEN FROM PRYDE’S IN WESTPORT!
(scroll down to the bottom of this post to enter…) Oh Pryde’s, how we love thee… Have you been to Pryde’s before?? If you haven’t, you can scarcely consider yourself a true Kansas Citian!! This is the essence of Kansas City’s independent business scene. Since 1968, this kitchen store – known as the hardware store…
What to Buy and Why: Holiday Gift Guide 2014
I don’t know about you, but I get anxiety just thinking about shopping for the holidays. And you won’t find me anywhere near stores on Black Friday. No thanks. I’d rather warmly stay in my turkey coma than save five bucks on a scarf or $40 on a new TV. Who needs more TVs, anyway?…
Townhome Before & After & After Again!
Over the course of the last couple years we have had the incredibly unique opportunity to REMODEL 2 IDENTICAL TOWNHOMES for two utterly un-identical clients! Here’s how it all started… Back in 2012 we contracted with Client #1 to completely update his newly purchased townhome. The remodel was a smashing success – garnering far and away the…
BLUE. BLUE. BLUE.
As I’ve mentioned before I’ve been on a mission to go back and photograph the ‘afters’ of projects that we never got around to shooting back in the day. So we’ve been pulling out the old rolodex and calling past clients to see if we can come crash and grab some pictures for our records.…
DECONSTRUCTING WHAT MAKES THIS KITCHEN WORK
It’s all too easy to drag dozens of pictures off of your Pinterest feed and drop them into your inspiration boards within a matter of minutes as you plan to remodel a room. But translating them from designer space to your own space is complicated at best. And our culture of barely looking at images as…
TOP 10 REMODELING AFTERTHOUGHTS
It seems that at the anniversary of every completed project, clients have found themselves in love with some unexpected piece of their home. Sure, they love the heated floors just like they knew they would. And there was never any doubt that adding a third car garage was going to pay dividends both to the…