Right At Home – A Home Improvement Blog by Mosby
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DESIGNER TALK: Investing in Your Home vs. the Stock Market
In response to a client debating whether to remodel their home or put those funds in the stock market, Mosby Building Arts designer Jake Spurgeon, AKBD, shared these great points. Home ownership remains the American dream. For generations, parents have raised...
5 Reasons To Have A Shower Bench
A bathroom shower can incorporate many different accessories, all of which can make your showering experience easier and more enjoyable. One accessory homeowners often ask for is a shower bench. Shower benches serve several purposes, some of which you may have never...
8 Ways to Bring Natural Light into Your Home
Increasing the amount of natural light in your home reduces your reliance on artificial light during the day (also reflected in your electric bill!) while boosting your sense of well-being. Here are 8 ways to light up your life, ranging from do-it-yourself to...
7 Tips for Your Kitchen Facelift
If you’re content with the size and layout of your kitchen but are unhappy with how outdated and worn it looks, you’re ready for a kitchen facelift. Updating kitchen surfaces and details without altering the basic layout is also known as a pull and replace by the...
Architectural Highlights: 175 Years of St. Louis Historic Homes
A house must be at least 50 years old to be eligible for historic designation, and St. Louis, Missouri has a solid 175 years of historic housing stock. There are over 100 of them that made the National Register of Historic Places. Marveling at such an impressive...
Mosby Ghost Stories: Remodeling in Haunted Homes
We remodel St. Louis homes of all ages, and we do love working on century homes. Now, we’re not saying all homes in the 100 year old range are haunted - but homes of that vintage are more prone to having some ectoplasmic activity. Now, we’re not saying these anecdotes...
Mosby Tour: A Rustically Elegant Master Suite Addition
A South St. Louis County couple nearing their retirement years wanted to update key parts of the home they’ve lived in for 30 years. A top priority was having a light-filled master suite with a larger bathroom. They had spent the better part of a year investigating...
The Importance of House Wrap
One of the main roles of your homes’ exterior is to keep the elements like water and moisture on the outside of your home. Several factors play a part in keeping this true like your house’s roof, siding, windows and doors. But maintaining a dry home involves more than...
DESIGNER TALK Do You Really Need a Dining Room?
Karen Bruns, Mosby Building Arts Designer In the remodeling world, we continually confront this question: Dining rooms – do we really need them anymore? Dining rooms have been a mainstay of the American home forever. But at some point in our recent history, we’ve...
Do You Live in a Time Capsule Home?
If you live in a home that has remained virtually unchanged since it was first built and inhabited, then you most likely live in a time capsule home. This phrase was originally coined to describe single-owner homes built in the 1940s and 50s that finally hit the real...
Mosby Tour: Finished Basement with Craft Room & Guest Suite
When a Wentzville, MO family built a brand new home they purposely left the walk-out basement unfinished so they could learn what they wanted from that space. Two years later they knew the basement should serve as a multi-tasking lower level. Mosby Building Arts...
Oh, the Horror: DIY Remodeling Gone Wrong
“Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. “ – Aldous Huxley Do-It-Yourself home remodeling projects begun with the best of intentions can soon turn into a nightmare due to lack of skill or knowledge. To humorously illustrate the...