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Locally owned for 27 years, the Expressions custom options offer styles, fabrics and expertise to help you express yourself! Design consultants work with you to identify your distinct style. The showroom offers furniture, fabrics and accessories celebrating design and color. Stop in to sit, touch and experience the variety of possibilities the store offers to create a home uniquely yours.

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The framed picture sits on Brandon Anschultz’s desk. It is a small abstract drawing, featuring neatly outlined, colorful globes. Anschultz created it when he was 5 or 6 years old, an age when most budding artists are in their Scribble Period. “You can’t get away from yourself when you’re doing artwork. You always fall back to what you do. I’m still doing the same things as an artist that I was doing when I was that little kid,” Anschultz laughs.

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From the outside, the Cheshire looks like an inn transported from an English village to a busy stretch of Clayton Road. Open the door to The Restaurant, though, and you’ll find far more than typical English fare.

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Walking into Laurie and John LeBoeuf’s Richmond Heights home, you quickly find that color abounds in the 11/2-story charmer. Serene shades of blue and gray provide a base while bold pops of color add a fun twist in various spaces. John and Laurie purchased the property in 2012, and after a few updates, they have made the house a home for their family of three.

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Serene and stately from the curb, this lovely residence in Town & Country conceals the beehive of energy and creativity continually taking place inside. Owners Karen and Jim Castellano have a multitude of personal interests, and the 8,000-square-foot 1 1/2-story custom home built, by Bruning Homes, was tailored to their vibrant, active lifestyle.

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Sharon Buchanan gardens on two acres that she and her husband Larry are transforming from an out-of-control wilderness into a native Missouri showplace. Her efforts already are getting attention. Last December, Creve Coeur recognized the Buchanan garden as the best in the city.

That type of recognition should be no surprise when you learn a bit more about Sharon, who cannot remember a time when she did not love being outdoors. The love of the natural world led her to pursue a career in forestry at the University of Georgia, where her family lived at that time.

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