Sweet Dreams

If you haven’t taken the plunge to create your forever dream home, this issue is guaranteed to put you in dreamland. Imagine, after careful analysis, you’ve finally made the crucial decision to hire your dream team. Meetings with your chosen architect, interior designer and builder begin, and the collaboration process starts. You might have to pinch yourself as your vision begins to take a life of its own. Maybe your dream home is a whole house renovation! Candice Wideman, lead interior designer and owner of Youtopia Designs, shares her experience of how she, her team and her clients completely transformed an existing home into their dream home by adding custom features and major updates to their buildergrade home (pages 20-29). Maybe your dream home process includes purchasing land and building a new custom home! Tamsin Design Group worked hand in hand with the homeowners and many skilled craftsmen to produce a one-of-a-kind home that is beyond awesome (pages 30-39). Are you ready to wake up and start making your dreams come true?

If so, we’ve assembled an informative guide to assist your journey. Beacons in their industry, we turned to the top St. Louis architects, builders, interior designers and industry partners to ask how they work with homeowners and to explain why their expertise, quality products and installations are second to none (pages 58-82).

Wake up now and enjoy this inspirational issue!

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