At least once or twice a year, one couple in Des Peres heads to the mountains of Colorado where they love to ski, hike and ride bikes. They recently finished their basement and had it designed to have the ambience of a Colorado ski lodge – bringing their favorite vacation spot into their home.  “When we bought the house in 2017, we always knew we wanted an area for entertaining our family and friends,” the homeowner says. “We also were inspired by the stunning sceneries of the Colorado Rockies and the ‘lodge’ feeling of the places we have visited in Colorado.”

When the owners of this custom home decided they needed guidance to appoint the interiors, they searched online and stumbled upon Tamsin Design Group. In an initial phone call to owner and interior designer Tamsin Mascetti, the wife was struck by Tamsin’s warmth and enthusiasm. During that conversation, the wife mentioned the couple had been watching a new build go up in Frontenac and loved everything about that project. “That house happened to be a new build I had just finished,” Tamsin says. “We were both surprised and excited and knew this chance phone call happened for a reason.”

After creating six homes together, it’s safe to say that interior designer Maggie Jewell of MKS Designs and her long-time client are perfectly in sync with each other’s styles. Their most recent endeavor, a jewel box of a home nestled in the charming St. Louis neighborhood of Glendale, looks like a colorful dream come to life. The homeowner, a St. Louis resident of 27 years, had recently relocated to Florida to enjoy life on the coast. But when her daughter married, settled down in Glendale and was awaiting her first child, this grandmother-to-be had a change of heart.

When her client wanted a space distinct from the other rooms inside the home, Emily Hall decided to do something a little more unexpected. Emily, principal designer and owner at Emily Hall Interiors, chose vivid colors for this cocktail room, a grand departure from the house’s other mostly white and black interiors.

Anna Bukhshtaber has loved fashion and design for as long as she can remember. As a little girl, she would cut clippings from interior design and fashion magazines to make her own mood boards. She filled her journals with current style trends, and her search for inspiration was insatiable. Fast forward to winter 2021, when Anna’s childhood mood boards finally came to life via a stunning new home she created from her well-studied design vision.

“I might have put a band-aid on it if it had just been me,” the owner of this Town and Country home says of recent renovations. Emerging from a divorce, the owner had already been thinking that her beloved 1990s traditionally styled home could use some updating. When she entered into a new relationship that seemed destined for the long haul, the couple contemplated where they’d join households: his or hers? “He had a beautiful home he’d just renovated, but I was much more attached to my home,” says the owner, who’s lived in the house for over 20 years.