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Brighten Up Your Home with Natural Daylight

When Gary Pawelko and his partner Diana Figueroa built their home in Wentzville, they carefully considered the many options available, doing their best to imagine this new space and how things would fit together.  Unfortunately, they didn’t realize until the home was finished that the kitchen, where they spent a large portion of their time,…

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Earth-friendly Home Saves Money and Environment

It’s a common misconception that having a “green” home means small, basic and visually unappealing.  Dale and Sharon Becker had long dreamed of the home they built in O’Fallon, Missouri, but wanted to apply green building principles in a comfortable, beautiful home.  They had been fans of Sarah Susanka’s Not So Big House and designed…

Where the Rain Goes

Rain garden in St. Stephen’s Lake Park in Columbia, MO (Photo courtesy of Steve Johnson, Executive Director of the Missouri River Communities Network) Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone?  They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot! Joni Mitchell warned us years ago about…