The Journal

Every home has a story.

Stories from home, and what we've learned helping Kansas City families furnish theirs: the moments a house becomes a home, and the practical guidance to get there well.

A grandfather points at a meteor streaking through a starry night sky while a young girl in pajamas stands beside him in the backyard, the house's porch light glowing behind them.
Stories from Home

Show Me the Stars

I promised my daughter I would wake her in the night to see the stars. Then I didn't. My stepdad is about to keep the promise for me.

Read the entry →
Kansas City Ballet dancers as Dorothy, the Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man in the Emerald City in Septime Webre's The Wizard of Oz. Photography by Brett Pruitt and East Market Studios.
Stories from Home

There's No Place Like Home

Dorothy was never trying to get back to Kansas. Neither was I. On Kansas City Ballet's The Wizard of Oz and the person who made home, home.

Read the entry →
A young girl in a tulle dress holds her stuffed bunny beside a black console styled with a beaded mirror, candlesticks, and olive branches
Stories from Home

What Makes a House a Home

What makes a house a home is never square footage or a style label. It is a feeling, and it is the reason designing a home with care is never just about furniture.

Read the entry →
A sculptural carved-wood piece beside a stacked-marble lamp on a travertine console, against the hand-drawn ginkgo wall of the Bernhardt gallery.
News · July 18, 2026

Inside Our Bernhardt Gallery

A dedicated Bernhardt Interiors gallery is a rare thing for a retailer to earn. Here is what lives inside ours, and why it is styled like a room you could move into tomorrow.

Read the entry →
Chastin and Phil Reynolds beneath the Seville Home sign at the Leawood storefront
Stories from Home

A new chapter for Seville Home

New owners, a renewed showroom, and the same belief that started it all: that home is where life is lived well. A letter on what is changing, and what never will.

Read the entry →
Hands leafing through the open Porter Teleo lookbook, mood boards and material swatches on view, atop a table draped in the studio's hand-painted textile
In the Showroom · July 15, 2026

An afternoon with Porter Teleo

Seville Home welcomed the artisan studio Porter Teleo for an intimate afternoon with Kansas City's design community: a live painting demonstration and an inside look at their craft.

Read the entry →
A guest in a red sweater holds up two hot-pink Galentine's gift bags on the Seville Home floor
In the Showroom · February 14, 2026

Galentine's Sip & Stroll

Seville Home co-hosted a Galentine's Sip & Stroll with Stroll, welcoming nearly 125 guests for an evening of cocktails, live painting, floral arranging, and connection.

Read the entry →
Two children play on a cream leather sectional in a warm, lamplit great room with marble cocktail tables and a city-lights window wall
Stories from Home

Furniture That Lives With Your Family

Can furniture be beautiful and survive kids, pets, and real life? It can. A guide to performance fabrics, durable construction, and family-friendly pieces that still feel elevated, from our Leawood showroom.

Read the entry →
A deep teal button-tufted Massoud Pierre wing chair with wood arm caps on a cowhide rug, every small detail rich with craftsmanship
Guide

Small Design Decisions That Make a Big Difference

The quiet, almost invisible choices that decide whether a room feels like somewhere you visit, or somewhere you belong.

Read the entry →
A single cream linen chair and ottoman by a tall garden window, a marble cube table with books and a glass, a calm and quiet place to simply be
Stories from Home

Furnishings That Make You Feel

A new home, or a room begun from scratch, starts with a better question than what should go here. It starts with how you want to feel.

Read the entry →
A couple relaxing together on a deep charcoal Huntington House sectional in a sunlit loft, laughing over a laptop and a glass of wine
Stories from Home

The Place Everyone Wants to Linger

There comes a season when your home is the one everyone gathers in. How intention, not decoration, makes it a place people never want to leave.

Read the entry →
Chastin and Phil Reynolds together inside the Seville Home entrance
News · November 5, 2025

A New Chapter, Same Heart

IN Kansas City Magazine shares the news of Seville Home's next chapter, and the people who carry its heart forward.

Read the entry →
A carved antique chest styled with white orchids, a bronze horse, and a blue ombre lamp beneath a sunset landscape painting
News · October 22, 2025

"It Feels Like Home": Seville Home in Furniture Today

Furniture Today spotlights Seville Home's next chapter under local family ownership in Kansas City.

Read the entry →

Your next chapter starts with a conversation.

Every project begins the same way: a complimentary consultation, in the showroom or your home.