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Best Seat in the House
The Ravello offers a new location, look and life for one condo owner.
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Ideas for the Taking
Whether you’re building new, remodeling or redecorating, consider incorporating one or more of these hot trends from a recent homes tour.
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Elements of Style
From lighting and color to personalization and repurposing, 10 designers share advice for your interiors.
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The Finesse of Faux
If you want what you haven’t got, faux finishing can give it to you.
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Spring’s Inspired Styles
Adding some of the season’s most fashionable pieces will revitalize your usual decor.
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Covering the Spectrum
Nothing’s simply black or white — it’s always a little gray, especially this year, when you’ll see a variety of colors found deep within the rainbow.
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Building Hope
Working together for a common cause, 13 local designers united to work their magic on the 2008 Touched By Cancer Foundation’s Designer Show Home.
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Seasonal Enchantment
Prepare your home to be a wonderland of imagination and flight of fancy with these decorating ideas from the pros.
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Building Blocks
Cabinets make the kitchen, so start with a solid foundation of knowledge.
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Barrier-Free Living
Universal design is coming to the forefront as it prepares a home for aging residents.
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The Five D’s of Home Improvement
Here’s your easy-to-remember checklist to maximize your home’s potential.
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Nature’s Way
Home furnishing trends pinpoint the fresh and stylish, with a whisper of unfettered luxury.
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Earth, Wind and Fire
Go with the flow and live better through Feng Shui, an ancient and wise practice for going green.
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Working the Window
What to look for when considering heat-blocking window film that won’t block light.
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Suite Dreams
A contemporary addition and remodel in Fairway, Kan., takes the residential top spot in IIDA’s regional design awards.
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Good Morning, Sunshine
As seasons change,so should your interior spaces.Here are 20 tips for the transition.
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Packing It In
Six accessories you need to help you live large in your small space.
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Remodeling Out of the Boxes
Without altering their home’s footprint, a Kansas City couple transformed their existing floor plan from choppy and outdated to wide open and modernized.
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Don't Curb Your Enthusiasm
When it comes to your home’s exterior appeal, the more proactive you are about its beautification, the better
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The Rise of the Lower Level
Form meets function in these entertaining spaces
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High Gloss
Glorious color bursts onto the scene in 2008
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Ready to Remodel?
KCH&G follows one local family’s project from conception to completion.
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Romancing the Bedroom
A sweet suite is a dressed-up sanctuary, with tons of texture and no TV in sight.
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Let there be Christmas Lights
…and Let Somebody Else Hang Them Up
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Fabulous Fabrics Found Here
Local to-the-trade showrooms bring big-name lines to middle-America
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Pieces of the Past
Architectural salvage in modern-day homes links the old with the new. "I call myself the anti-Home Depot. I don't mean that begrudgingly, but the products we find are one-of-a-kinds."
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Deluxe is in the Details
The elements of a luxurious home include set principles of design and a few self-determined choices of your own.
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Big Ideas for Not So Big Spaces
Discover how attention to the small gives character to the whole, as told by architect, author and cultural visionary Sarah Susanka. Her latest book "Inside the Not So Big House" (Taunton Press,...
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Who's Your Architect?
Here's why you should hire an architect and how you'll get the most for your money plus learn about styles of architecture in the Kansas City area.
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Posh Patio Homes
Two couples live large in their not-so-big houses. Their identical floor plans, decorated in totally different but equally incredible ways, emphasize originality and personal taste.
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Through the Years
An Overland Park decorator incorporates personal history into her ever-evolving home.
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