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Architecture, Business, Miscellaneous, Q & A, Repairs & Advice
Do you have a wish list of things you would like to change about your home? Maybe you’ve been dreaming about tearing out your dated kitchen and replacing it with a modern, family-friendly farmhouse kitchen. Or you fantasize about a new hall bathroom that doesn’t make...
Architecture, Design & Remodeling, Designer Talk, Miscellaneous, Remodeling, trends
The internet is full of savvy ideas for remodeling, redecoration, and renovating your home. Two sites we love, Pinterest and Houzz, are visual in nature and allow users to collect photos and link to products they like. Upon signing up for one of these social accounts,...
Architecture, Business, Q & A, Remodeling, Repairs & Advice
This is a good question especially considering the tarnished image of the remodeling industry. Nationally, remodeling companies are known for causing significant cost overruns, major delays in production, delivering poor quality, and on the extreme, behaving...
Architecture, Designer Talk, Home Makeovers, Kitchens, Lighting
Home is where your heart is. Because our physical surroundings play such an important role in creating a sense of meaning in our lives, it doesn’t seem a surprise that our sense of the place we live is closely tied to our sense of who we are! So, when choosing to...
Accessible Design, Architecture, Bathrooms, Before & After, Design & Remodeling, Remodeling
Home is where the heart is for one University City couple. They love everything about the mid-century modern home where they have resided for eight years. However, with plans to stay in their home as long as possible, they knew the time had come to give their dated...
Architecture, Design & Remodeling, Kitchens
Mosby Building Arts is committed to helping you love your home and all of the events that take place inside. With the holidays right around the corner, we thought we would take a break from all of the remodeling talk and pass along a few hosting tips to help make your...
Architecture, Design & Remodeling, Home Makeovers, Miscellaneous
There’s no better way to create a cozy, inviting feel in your home than with a beautiful fireplace. Whatever the size, it should reflect your personality, and match the style throughout the rest of the house. There are a wide variety of ways to complete a fireplace...
Architecture, Before & After, Kitchens, Remodeling
Have you ever been so inspired by a photo that you wanted to recreate it in your own home? That’s exactly what happened for this St. Louis, south-city homeowner. After falling in love with a kitchen she saw in a photo, she enlisted the help of Mosby Building Arts to...
Architecture
For room additions, whole-house renovations, new kitchens, master bathroom remodels, and other major home improvement projects, hiring an architect is a smart decision. Architects are trained in design theory, structural systems, project management, and coming up with...
Architecture, Design & Remodeling, Remodeling
Do you look or do you see? This is a simple question with layers of meaning. We could say it’s the difference between identifying an object and absorbing its details. Looking: Our society has come to accept at face value quite a lot of bad architecture and design....
Architecture, Historic Renovation
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 list...
Architecture, Remodeling
If things feel a little “off” within your home, it might be an issue with flow, or lack thereof. Removing or rearranging walls to create a more open floor plan is often the final link in feeling truly comfortable in your home. Here are two examples of St. Louis homes...
Architecture, Design & Remodeling, Kitchens, Remodeling
Virtual remodeling is the use of software programs that makes it easy to explore design options. It is a cost-effective – and, frankly, fun – way to see the possibilities before making a final decision. From simple home improvements to large remodeling projects, here...
Architecture, Before & After, Design & Remodeling, Remodeling
The family moved into their Sunset Hills, MO ranch home, built in 1965, in 2011. They love the neighborhood, the town and most everything about the house. The home met all their needs, yet they longed for a more spacious, less cramped feel, akin to the hunting lodges...
Architecture
As part of Mosby Building Art’s 60th Anniversary, we had visited some of the projects that Scott Mosby’s father, Sam, had been a part of in the early days of the St. Louis remodeling company. This piece was originally published in July 2007. Hal Knight has since...
