Out of Sight, Out of Mind

NEAT Method is the nation's largest home organizing company. I launched the St. Louis franchise in 2021. Our team loves taking homes from chaotic to composed. As a team, we organize with a design-forward approach to create customized, sustainable systems for our clients based on their needs and lifestyles. We believe that a clean and organized space leads to a calmer and more productive life.

Fresh Start

These days when so much is mass produced, unique stationery and prints can be hard to come by. It’s partly why, in 2017, Madeleine Wiering and her dad, Vernon Wiering, decided to co-own and co-found Papillon Press, a maker of distinctive prints, stationery and other goods. They wanted to revive old designs using traditional printmaking techniques. Several of the brand’s items are amazingly informed by designs from the past, approximately the period between 1790 and 1910.

Designations such as “iconic,” “wow factor,” and “legendary” often become hyperbole in today’s world. For this Des Peres golf course home, even industry-leading architects, builders and designers—principals crafting some of the area’s most stunning homes—have struggled to find adequate words to describe the house.

Tegethoff Homes project manager Matt Cerretti sums it up this way: “It is an incredibly special residence,” he says. “It has an absolute plethora of unique features and attributes you don’t often get to explore in St. Louis.”

    At best, every home renovation is a challenge. Even the process of selecting the right designer for the project can be daunting, especially when your wish list of must-haves is wholly ignored. Such was the scenario for this St. Louis couple when they wanted to upgrade their kitchen a few years ago. They had purchased a Garden Valley subdivision dwelling in 2011 and moved in with their three teen and pre-teen children. Like most homes in their neighborhood, it was a sprawling suburban two-story house with builder-grade finishes.

Meet our esteemed panel of Kitchens of the Year judges:

Susan Bower, Bower Leet Design