St Louis AT HOME March-April 2011
Diane Breckenridge Interiors and Carriage House Florals Offer Finery and Flowers
From complete interiors to finishing touches, they offer it all more
Thai Chef Naam Pruitt Takes a Trip Through Jay International Foods
A supermarket of ideas more
Modern STL Aims to Save St. Louis's Historic Buildings
In February, Modern STL was set to hold a 50th-birthday party for Tropicana Lanes in Richmond Heights, where people would drink, bowl, and dry their hands with those funky air dryers at the tops of ... more
Artist Mary Sprague's Next Big Thing
Sprague's naturalist paintings of rhinos and chickens move her forward more
Alphabet Soup
Cheree Berry and her husband, Jeff York, threw a backyard soirée for scribblers and scribes who love to read and write. more
Web Gallery: Outside the Looking Glass
Scenes from an adorable Alice in Wonderland first birthday more
Sow the Seeds
Buying plants from the nursery is easy, but limits what you can grow. When you start your own seedlings (or direct-sow), you increase your options hundredfold. Though everyone’s tastes are different, here are some of our favorite seed varieties. more
Major Transformations
Rooms that look hopeless take tasteful turns at designers' capable hands. more
Freedom in Restraint
Finding the perfect balance was the key. more
Straight From the Big Easy
Designer Amie Corley adds glamour and luxury to a small space by a stairway. more
Second Nature
A self-taught gardener's improvisational Eden, planted with his grandmother's phlox—and big-box shrubbery. more
All I Have to Do Is Dream
One of my favorite games to play is “Dream House.” There are no rules—you just list everything you’d want in your own to-die-for house. I can pretty much rattle off my wish-I-hads in my sleep: A large... more
Outside the Looking Glass
A first birthday party for two little girls takes on classic proportions as their mothers’ friends help make the magic. more
Gateway 180 Renovation
She’s lost everything—job, house, car—except for her children and two garbage bags full of their belongings. She walks into the Gateway 180 homeless shelter, where the people are helpful and the food ... more
Taking Inventory
Respect for beautiful things, whether hers or someone else's, is this interior designer's mantra. more