Master Bathroom Remodel: A Design Connection, Inc. Featured Project
This basic builder-grade bathroom was transformed into a luxury master retreat. How did we do it? With a little bit of magic and a great design plan from Kansas City interior designer Arlene Ladegaard, that’s how! The Before and After pictures are a MUST-SEE!
1980’s Kitchen Gets Massive Makeover: A Design Connection, Inc. Featured Project
Walking into this kitchen was like entering into a perfectly preserved Throwback Thursday time capsule from 1980. See this kitchen’s drastic transformation in our Before & After pictures!
Traditional Kitchen Gets Metropolitan Makeover: A Design Connection, Inc. Featured Project
Having recently moved to the Kansas City area from San Francisco, my clients traded their apartment-sized city condo for a spacious Leawood home. The traditional style of their home was outdated and did not at all reflect their metropolitan style and contemporary taste. A whole-home…
Tuscan-Style Lower Level Kitchen: A Design Connection, Inc. Featured Project
I’ve recently had the pleasure of designing a spacious Tuscan-style dream home, complete with a grand staircase, a two-story library and two gorgeous kitchens. Two kitchens! I am in Interior Designer Heaven. Now that the home is completed, it is time that I come down…
2014 Holiday Gift Guide – For the Home and for All to Enjoy
How many shopping days until Christmas? Don’t be left scrambling to find the perfect gift for that hard to shop for family member or friend! The interior design pros at Kansas City’s Design Connection, Inc. have some great “for the home” gift ideas that are…
If These Walls Could Talk: Before & After Kansas City Kitchen Remodel
You know the phrase, “If These Walls Could Talk”? Well, they can. Walls can talk and they talk to me. I don’t talk to the walls; I’m not a crazy person. I am an Interior Designer; the walls talk to me. Some walls ask me…
Get Enlightened With our Favorite Lighting Designs
When you think of updating your home, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Is it remodeling the kitchen? Updating the bathroom? Many of us shy away from making changes to our home décor because we simply aren’t ready to renovate, or even…
Light Up the Night – Our Favorite Outdoor Lighting Options
Last week we celebrated the arrival of spring by sprucing up your outdoor living space. Our goal is to help you achieve an outdoor living space that is functional, comfortable and reflective of your personal style. We shared some great ideas on how to furnish…
Flip the Switch on Your Outdated Light Fixtures – Find Enlightenment in Our Design Ideas
As a Kansas City interior designer, I usually have multiple projects in various stages spinning their scheduled wheels towards completion. My daily life is dictated by the calendar. I don’t make a phone call without the calendar in front of me. How is it possible…
Top 5 Home Decor Accessories to Have in a Storm
Kansas City got smacked with an angry storm earlier this week, which left us interior designers at Design Connection, Inc. and thousands of our neighbors without power or *gasp* wireless internet. It’s moments like these that make us realize the modern conveniences that we have…