Author: Peter N. Shelton

When Krissie Kiehne decided to move into her father’s house with her family, she looked past the swinging saloon doors, the wood paneling in the family room and the kitchen’s buckling linoleum. “It was in complete disrepair,” says Krissie. Her father hadn’t changed a thing to the sixties Prairie Village split-level in the twenty years that he lived there. Although he always kept a tidy yard and was more than willing to help his neighbors out with theirs when needed, interior home repair was not his thing. But despite the home’s condition, Krissie and her husband, Matt, decided that the…

When Gina and Jeff Stingley walked into their future Sunset Hills home for the first time, the dark wood, painted faux stone walls and antler chandeliers were a bit overwhelming. “I think you really needed to have an eye for design to see this house’s potential,” Gina says. She characterizes the house’s then-interior as a bit drab, but she also loved the early 1930s Tudor-style architecture and the neighborhood south of the Plaza. Despite walls of dark paneling and Tuscan-style plaster treatments, the Stingleys knew they could turn the quirky house on a lovely tree-lined street into a home for…

The design duo at Kobel & Co. starts a new project by asking lots of questions. “We spend time up front,” says Elizabeth Bennett, who co-owns the firm with Mallory Robins. Before grabbing samples, sourcing furniture or developing a strategy, Bennett and Robins want to really understand how their clients live—and how they want to live. “How do you want this house to feel? How do you want your guests to feel? What are some of your favorite places that you have been to that you love?” Bennett asks. Then, armed with a bounty of intimate details, they christen each…

Six amazing new hotels for epic weekend getaways from KC WORDS Martin Cizmar, Mary Henn, Rob Henrichs, Natalie Torres GallagherPHOTOGRAPHY Zach Bauman, Josh Beecher, Caleb Condit, Rebecca Norden St. Louis, MO Book the Look St. Louis’ Angad Arts Hotel is one of the most unique in the country.  MARTIN CIZMAR Walk down the hallway on the first floor of the Angad Arts Hotel in St. Louis and you’ll see pages of poetry hanging from the walls.The pages are from Quarantine Chronicles by St. Louis poet Jared C. Lewis, who started writing a poem a day in March 2020, including a…