[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1385},["ShallowReactive",2],{"journal:\u002Fjournal\u002Fshow-me-the-stars":3,"article-pager:journal":148},{"id":4,"title":5,"albumUrl":6,"author":7,"body":8,"category":132,"cover":133,"coverAlt":134,"coverHeight":135,"coverPortrait":136,"coverWidth":137,"date":138,"description":139,"draft":136,"extension":140,"faq":6,"gallery":6,"galleryStyle":6,"meta":141,"metaTitle":6,"navigation":142,"path":143,"seo":144,"series":145,"stem":146,"topic":6,"__hash__":147},"journal\u002Fjournal\u002Fshow-me-the-stars.md","Show Me the Stars",null,"Chastin Reynolds",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":126},"minimark",[11,15,18,21,24,27,30,33,36,39,42,45,48,51,54,57,60,63,66,69,72,75,80,83,86,89,92,95,98,101,105,108,111,114,117,120,123],[12,13,14],"p",{},"One of my favorite childhood memories is my stepdad waking us in the middle of the night because something was happening in the sky.",[12,16,17],{},"A lunar eclipse. A meteor shower. Something above us that Brian had decided was worth getting out of bed for.",[12,19,20],{},"We would stumble outside sleepy-eyed while he stood there fully awake. He worked an evening shift in those years and usually got home around midnight, so the middle of the night belonged to him in a way it never belonged to us. He would point toward the moon or the stars and explain what we were looking at, and he talked about the sky with such authority that I assumed he had studied it all his life.",[12,22,23],{},"He hadn't. Brian was a mechanic who later went to work with chemicals in a plant. He never took a class in astronomy. He was simply interested, and more than that, he paid attention.",[12,25,26],{},"Years later I told my daughter, Charlotte, about those nights. I told her that being pulled from a warm bed to squint at the sky had somehow become one of my favorite memories of being a kid.",[12,28,29],{},"\"Will you do that for me, Momma?\"",[12,31,32],{},"Of course, I said.",[12,34,35],{},"Then I didn't.",[12,37,38],{},"For days she asked when it was going to happen. When would I wake her up? When would we walk out in our pajamas onto the terrace beneath our building and look at the sky while everyone else slept? I kept promising we would.",[12,40,41],{},"Then my brother and his wife had their first baby, and we traveled to Aurora to meet their new bundle of joy. Phil and I had to leave almost immediately afterward for a work trip, so Charlotte stayed behind with my mom and Brian.",[12,43,44],{},"Somewhere on the road, I remembered the promise I hadn't kept. I texted Brian, told him what Charlotte had been asking for, and suggested he take her outside while she was there, the way he had once taken us.",[12,46,47],{},"His reply surprised me.",[12,49,50],{},"\"Haha. Gotcha. I hope she don't get mad at me like you guys did.\"",[12,52,53],{},"I don't remember being mad. Apparently, he does.",[12,55,56],{},"I asked whether anything would be happening in the sky while Charlotte was there. I knew he would know. At first he thought there was a lunar eclipse. Then he corrected himself.",[12,58,59],{},"\"No, I got my dates wrong, but I'm in luck. We have a meteor shower them nights.\"",[12,61,62],{},"I told him that was perfect and hoped for clear skies.",[12,64,65],{},"\"That will be perfect,\" he wrote. \"It will be a secret.\"",[12,67,68],{},"I said I couldn't wait to hear what she thought.",[12,70,71],{},"\"Could go either way. Mad cuz I got her up, or excited.\"",[12,73,74],{},"He knows us pretty well.",[76,77,79],"h2",{"id":78},"the-right-way-and-the-wrong-way","The right way and the wrong way",[12,81,82],{},"Brian and I probably remember a lot of my childhood differently.",[12,84,85],{},"As a kid, I knew him as the person who cared about rules. Things had a right way and a wrong way. You arrived when you said you would. You took care of what belonged to you. You did what you said you were going to do. He was cautious, exact, punctual. Sometimes maddeningly so. He never raised his voice, but you knew when he meant something. He wasn't dramatic, and he wasn't especially sentimental.",[12,87,88],{},"He wouldn't say. He would do.",[12,90,91],{},"He was also adamant that you turn off the lights when you leave a room. It occurs to me now that the man who spent his evenings switching off every light we left burning was the same one getting us out of bed to go look at them.",[12,93,94],{},"As a child I experienced all of that as rigidity. As an adult, I recognize it as dependability. Maybe that's what time does to certain memories. It doesn't rewrite them so much as reveal what we weren't old enough to understand the first time.",[12,96,97],{},"Ask me about those nights now and I can't tell you much about the sky. I couldn't say which meteor shower we saw, or which eclipse, or even which year. The stars have blurred together. The man pointing at them hasn't.",[12,99,100],{},"When you're a child, you spend so much time looking where someone points that you never think to notice the person doing the pointing.",[76,102,104],{"id":103},"the-one-that-holds-still","The one that holds still",[12,106,107],{},"Every light in the night sky moves. Over the course of a night the whole sky wheels overhead, rising and setting like everything else. Except one. One star holds its place while everything turns around it, and for most of human history, people found their way home by it. Not because it's the brightest. Because it's always exactly where they left it.",[12,109,110],{},"I won't explain the metaphor. Brian would tell me to get to the point.",[12,112,113],{},"So, the point. Some night very soon, in a backyard in Aurora, my daughter is going to be shaken gently awake by her Pop Pop and led outside in her pajamas to watch pieces of a comet burn up over Missouri. She doesn't know it's coming. It will be a secret, like he said.",[12,115,116],{},"I don't know how this story ends yet. Maybe she'll be thrilled. Maybe she'll be mad because he got her up. Maybe thirty years from now, she and Brian will remember the whole night completely differently, and they can argue about it the way he and I do.",[12,118,119],{},"We spend our days at Seville Home helping families make beautiful rooms, and I believe in that work completely. But some of what makes a home doesn't happen in any room. It happens at two in the morning, in pajamas, in the wet grass of a backyard in Aurora.",[12,121,122],{},"Charlotte may remember the stars. She may remember being tired. She may only remember being annoyed. But someday, I think, she'll understand what took me thirty years to see.",[12,124,125],{},"Someone who loved her made sure she looked up.",{"title":127,"searchDepth":128,"depth":128,"links":129},"",2,[130,131],{"id":78,"depth":128,"text":79},{"id":103,"depth":128,"text":104},"Chapter","\u002Fphotos\u002Fjournal\u002Fshow-me-the-stars.jpg","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.",1024,false,1536,"2026-08-27","I promised my daughter I would wake her in the night to see the stars. Then I didn't. 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Peonies crowded the flower beds, the air smelled like hay, and there were horses and cattle at the fence. Inside was a yellow kitchen that always smelled like something cooking in a black iron skillet.",[12,280,281],{},"The afternoon light came through sheer peach curtains that I loved without knowing why. Her ceramic cats hid all through the house, life-size, waiting like Easter eggs. Finding one never stopped feeling like luck.",[12,283,284],{},"For most of my life, if you had asked me what home meant, I would have described that house.",[12,286,287],{},"I would have been describing the wrong thing.",[12,289,290],{},"Home was the person inside it. The one person whose presence made the world feel less sharp. The person you did not have to explain yourself to. The person whose voice could settle something in you that no room ever could.",[12,292,293],{},"And when that person is gone, home becomes difficult to describe. The house may still be standing. The furniture may be exactly where it was. The same doors open, and the same clock marks the hours. But something has left that cannot be replaced by anything beautiful.",[12,295,296],{},"You begin to understand that what made the room warm was not the light. It was them. What made the table matter was not what sat on it. It was that they were there. What made you feel safe was not the lock on the door. It was knowing that somewhere inside, they were waiting for you.",[12,298,299],{},"The cruelty of missing someone is that you do not only miss the person. You miss the version of the world that existed when they were in it. You miss who you were when you could still call them. You miss the small things you did not know to treasure, and the ordinary days that seemed endless until they ended.",[12,301,302],{},"And sometimes, in the quietest moments, you still feel yourself reaching for them. Not because you have forgotten, but because some part of you still believes home is where they are.",[76,304,306],{"id":305},"home-was-never-the-farmhouse","Home was never the farmhouse",[12,308,309],{},"We hear \"there's no place like home\" and think of houses. Of Kansas. Of a farmhouse and a patch of land.",[12,311,312],{},"But Dorothy did not spend all of Oz dreaming about walls, a bed, or a fence line. Home was Auntie Em. She wanted to get back to the person whose love had made those things mean something.",[12,314,315],{},"I understood that before I could have explained it, because my Auntie Em was my grandma. When I heard \"there's no place like home,\" it was her house I saw. And I knew exactly why Dorothy turned back the moment the fortune teller said Auntie Em had put a hand over her heart and dropped down on her bed. If someone had told me that about my grandma, I would have run home too. Storm or no storm.",[12,317,318],{},"Dorothy found wonder in Oz. She found color, adventure, friendship, power, and proof that she was braver than she knew. None of it could replace Auntie Em.",[12,320,321],{},"We are not so different. We travel far. We build beautiful lives. We become more capable, more independent, more impressive. And still, some part of us is always trying to return to the person who first made us feel that we belonged somewhere.",[12,323,324],{},"Then one day, that person may no longer be waiting at the door. The rooms can look the same. The road can still lead back. But home has changed.",[12,326,327],{},"I think that's why the line aches more as we grow older. Dorothy was not really asking to return to Kansas. She was asking to return to a time when Auntie Em was there. A time when love was ordinary enough to be taken for granted.",[12,329,330,334],{},[331,332,333],"strong",{},"\"There's no place like home.\""," And beneath that line is the truth no one says out loud: there is no one like Auntie Em. Once she is gone, clicking your heels cannot bring that version of home back.",[12,336,337],{},"It took sponsoring a ballet for me to put words to something I've felt for a long time. Sometimes the longing for home is really a longing for a person. The one who made home, home.",[12,339,340],{},"For me, it was always my grandma.",[12,342,343],{},"At Seville Home we say that home is where life is lived well, and I mean that more personally than it may sound. I will never claim a sofa or a table can give anyone what she gave me. But the rooms we make together are where the people we love happen to us. The ordinary Tuesday dinners. The voice from the kitchen. The person waiting inside.",[12,345,346],{},"So build the room. Set the table. 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Where the textures are familiar, the light falls soft, and the scent in the air makes your shoulders drop just a little. It is the quiet pride of a well-chosen chair. The clink of a glass at the end of a long day. The hum of voices around a table, the echo of laughter down the hall, the softness of a throw that has been folded and refolded for years.",[12,391,392],{},"Home is where we gather and grow, where we heal, remember, and dream. It is where the most meaningful moments of a life unfold, often without anyone realizing how sacred they were until much later. At its best, home is not simply where you live. It is where you feel most like yourself.",[12,394,395],{},"That feeling is not an accident. And understanding it is the whole reason we do what we do.",[76,397,399],{"id":398},"home-is-our-emotional-foundation","Home Is Our Emotional Foundation",[12,401,402],{},"Before a house is a style or a square footage, it is the place that tells us we are safe. It shapes our sense of belonging and our sense of self. When home feels right, we feel steady, and steadiness is quietly powerful. We take more risks. We love more fully. We meet the world with a little more confidence, because we know what we are coming back to.",[12,404,405],{},"You can feel it in something as small as a favorite chair by a window, set exactly where the afternoon light lands. The room knows you. And a room that knows you gives something back.",[76,407,409],{"id":408},"home-holds-our-most-sacred-moments","Home Holds Our Most Sacred Moments",[12,411,412],{},"Birthdays and holidays. Quiet mornings with a cup of coffee. Tearful goodbyes and ordinary Tuesday dinners. Home is the backdrop to the richest moments of a life, which means it is where memories are not only made but held.",[12,414,415],{},"A dining table becomes an heirloom through homework and holidays. A sofa earns its place holding movie nights and conversations that run past midnight. 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To set down the day, take off the mask, and slow down enough to feel like ourselves again. A well-loved home does more than shelter us from the world. It restores us for it. And the way we feel inside our own walls has a quiet way of spilling outward, into how we speak, how we care, and how generous we are able to be with the people we love.",[76,439,441],{"id":440},"why-it-is-never-just-about-furniture","Why It Is Never Just About Furniture",[12,443,444],{},"This is why the work of designing a home, carefully, intentionally, and beautifully, is never really about furniture at all. It is about how we live, how we love, and who we become inside the spaces we return to every day.",[12,446,447,448,452,453,457],{},"It is also the work we care about most. At Seville Home, we help Kansas City families create homes that hold their lives well, one considered room at a time. Not spaces arranged to impress, but spaces that feel unmistakably like you the moment you walk through the door. When you are ready to shape that feeling in your own home, our designers would love to help, beginning with a complimentary ",[241,449,451],{"href":450},"\u002Fdesign-services","design consultation",", or a ",[241,454,456],{"href":455},"\u002Fvisit","visit"," to the Leawood showroom whenever the time feels right.",[12,459,460],{},"Welcome home.",{"title":127,"searchDepth":128,"depth":128,"links":462},[463,464,465,466,467],{"id":398,"depth":128,"text":399},{"id":408,"depth":128,"text":409},{"id":418,"depth":128,"text":419},{"id":433,"depth":128,"text":434},{"id":440,"depth":128,"text":441},"\u002Fphotos\u002Fjournal\u002Fchild-bunny-vignette.jpg","A young girl in a tulle dress holds her stuffed bunny beside a black console styled with a beaded mirror, candlesticks, and olive branches",1620,1080,"2026-07-23","What makes a house a home is never square footage or a style label. 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Seville Home shows it in a room of its own.",[12,488,489],{},"A dedicated Bernhardt gallery is not something a retailer buys. It is something a maker grants, to a handful of partners it trusts to present the line the way it was designed to be seen. Ours sits inside the Leawood showroom, a composed space where the walls, the lighting, and the art are all part of the story, and where every piece is one you can sit in, open, and take home.",[76,491,493],{"id":492},"why-a-room-instead-of-a-floor","Why a room instead of a floor",[12,495,496],{},"Bernhardt Interiors treats furniture the way fashion treats clothing. The silhouettes are sculptural, the materials are mixed on purpose, and the finishes are meant to feel current without chasing a season. None of that reads on a spec sheet or under warehouse light. It reads in context, next to the right lamp, against the right wall, with the right piece of art behind it.",[12,498,499],{},"So the gallery is styled as a room, not a display. The dark side is moody and layered, with a travertine console, stacked marble lamps, and bronze cocktail ottomans set against ginkgo-lined walls. Turn the corner and it opens up: a cream sectional dressed in olive velvet, a silver-leaf swivel chair that catches the light, a cerused oak table low enough to live around. The point is not to sell you the console. It is to let you feel how the console would live in your home.",[76,501,503],{"id":502},"what-you-will-find-inside","What you will find inside",[12,505,506],{},"The gallery rotates with each market, so the specific pieces change through the year, but the range holds steady: sculptural swivels like the Tucci and the Ares, the best-selling Astoria chair that Kansas City keeps buying, dining built around tables like the Nexus, and casegoods with the kind of drawer fronts and hardware you want to run a hand across. Alongside the furniture are the lamps, mirrors, and art that make a Bernhardt room feel finished rather than furnished.",[12,508,509],{},"Every piece on view can be built to order in your finish and fabric, guided by a designer who knows which frames suit which rooms. And every piece leaves with our own white-glove crew placing it in your home, not a freight company leaving it at the curb.",[76,511,513],{"id":512},"a-refresh-this-september","A refresh this September",[12,515,516],{},"The gallery is getting a refresh this fall, with a ribbon-cutting and a special guest appearance from Alex Bernhardt in September. It is the right moment to see the space at its best, meet the family behind the line, and start a room of your own.",[12,518,519],{},"The gallery is open Monday through Saturday, 10 to 5, at 5205 W 135th Street in Leawood. Come sit in the Astoria. 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You love a room that looks pulled together, and you also live with people who eat on the sofa, build forts out of the cushions, and test every light-colored surface you own. Somewhere in there, a belief takes hold: you can have a beautiful home, or you can have a livable one, but not both. Not while the kids are small.",[12,791,792],{},"We would like to retire that idea. The house full of life is not the season to give up on beautiful. It is the season to be smarter about how you get there.",[76,794,796],{"id":795},"you-do-not-have-to-choose-between-beautiful-and-livable","You Do Not Have to Choose Between Beautiful and Livable",[12,798,799],{},"The homes that survive family life with their looks intact were not furnished by luck, and they were not furnished with the cheapest thing on the floor. They were furnished with intention. The right fabric. The right construction. 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You step inside and something loosens. Your shoulders come down. You find the nearest chair and stay longer than you planned, and later you cannot quite say why.",[12,945,946],{},"You have felt the opposite, too. A room that photographs beautifully and still holds you at arm's length. Everything correct, nothing wrong, and yet you hover near the door.",[12,948,949],{},"The distance between those two rooms is almost never the expensive thing. It is a handful of small decisions, each one easy to overlook, that together decide whether a space feels like somewhere you visit or somewhere you belong.",[76,951,953],{"id":952},"scale-is-felt-before-it-is-seen","Scale is felt before it is seen",[12,955,956,959],{},[331,957,958],{},"Get the scale right before you think about style."," Long before anyone registers a fabric or a finish, they feel the proportions of a room in their body.",[12,961,962],{},"A sofa an inch too shallow keeps you perched instead of settled. A rug that stops short of the chairs quietly tells everyone the seating is temporary. Chairs crowded around a table make a dinner feel rushed before the first plate lands. None of it is obvious. All of it is felt.",[12,964,965],{},"When scale is right, the opposite happens. Movement feels natural. Conversation has room to breathe. People relax without quite knowing why. Getting proportion right is the least visible work a designer does, and the first thing your body thanks them for.",[76,967,969],{"id":968},"light-decides-the-mood","Light decides the mood",[12,971,972,975],{},[331,973,974],{},"Light a room for the hour you actually live in it."," The same room can feel like two different homes depending on how it is lit.",[12,977,978],{},"Overhead brightness keeps a space alert, which is a gift in a kitchen at seven in the morning and unkind to a living room at nine at night. Lamplight, low and warm, does something else entirely. It draws a soft circle around the people inside it. 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They are inches and quiet engineering, not indulgences, and they are the whole difference between a chair you admire and a chair that becomes someone's favorite place in the house. Many of our clients shape those details themselves through ",[241,996,889],{"href":888},", because comfort that specific is worth getting exactly right.",[12,999,1000],{},"Comfort is what turns furniture into the backdrop of a life instead of the centerpiece of a photograph.",[76,1002,1004],{"id":1003},"leave-room-for-the-eye-to-rest","Leave room for the eye to rest",[12,1006,1007,1010],{},[331,1008,1009],{},"Leave some space open on purpose."," Not every surface needs to be earning its keep.",[12,1012,1013],{},"When everything competes for attention, nothing holds it, and a room that should feel calm begins to feel loud. Open space is not emptiness. It is the pause that lets the pieces you love actually be seen. A little restraint is what makes the rest feel deliberate, and a sense of deliberateness is what a room communicates long after anyone remembers a single object in it.",[76,1015,1017],{"id":1016},"choose-the-pieces-that-will-hold-your-life","Choose the pieces that will hold your life",[12,1019,1020,1023],{},[331,1021,1022],{},"Buy for the life you live, not the one you stage."," The most cherished homes were never staged. They were lived in, hard and happily.",[12,1025,1026],{},"A sofa earns its place holding movie nights and conversations that run past midnight. A dining table becomes an heirloom through homework and holidays and ordinary Tuesdays. Furniture does not create those moments. It holds them, and it holds up under them, which is why the quiet decisions matter most. A fabric that welcomes children instead of fearing them. A table that stretches to fit one more chair. A room shaped for the life you actually live, rather than the one you arrange for company.",[76,1028,1030],{"id":1029},"the-difference-you-feel-not-the-difference-you-see","The difference you feel, not the difference you see",[12,1032,1033],{},"None of these decisions announce themselves. No one walks in and praises your seat depth or the temperature of your lamplight. What they say instead is that they do not want to leave. What they carry home is not the room at all. It is how they felt inside it.",[12,1035,1036],{},"The feeling is the whole point, and it is built one small, considered choice at a time. It is also the part we care about long after a piece is delivered and placed, through the years you actually live with it.",[12,1038,1039,1040,1043,1044,1046],{},"When you are furnishing a home you intend to keep, the small decisions are the ones most worth getting right, and a thoughtful second eye is what keeps them from being overlooked. Come ",[241,1041,1042],{"href":455},"visit us in Leawood",", or begin with a complimentary ",[241,1045,451],{"href":450},". 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A new home before the boxes arrive. A space you have finally decided to redo. A fresh start you have been waiting for. It is full of possibility and, if we are honest, a little intimidating.",[12,1075,1076,1077],{},"Standing in it, most of us reach first for the wrong question: what should go here? A better one comes before it. ",[331,1078,1079],{},"How do I want this room to make me feel?",[12,1081,1082],{},"We ask that instinctively about almost everything else. Music, travel, clothing, food, the people and places we return to. We gravitate toward what calms us, energizes us, or brings us comfort. Yet at the very moment a home is most open to becoming something, we tend to start with the look and hope the feeling follows.",[76,1084,1086],{"id":1085},"a-home-is-an-experience-not-just-an-image","A Home Is an Experience, Not Just an Image",[12,1088,1089],{},"A room can look beautiful and still feel off. Too stark. Too busy. Correct in every detail and somehow not yours. That disconnect almost always traces back to choices made for how a space would photograph rather than how it would live.",[12,1091,1092],{},"When furnishings are chosen well, you feel it the moment you walk in. A sense of ease, warmth, or familiarity that is hard to name and easy to recognize. Starting from that feeling is the surest way to get a fresh start right the first time.",[76,1094,1096],{"id":1095},"style-labels-are-a-starting-point-not-the-goal","Style Labels Are a Starting Point, Not the Goal",[12,1098,1099],{},"Modern. Traditional. Transitional. Organic. These labels can help you begin, but they are not rules to obey or destinations to reach. When people force a new space into a single style, it starts to feel like a concept instead of a place meant to be lived in. Furnishings work best when they are chosen for how they will be used and how they will feel, not for the category they fit.",[76,1101,1103],{"id":1102},"questions-worth-asking-before-you-fill-a-space","Questions Worth Asking Before You Fill a Space",[12,1105,1106],{},"Before selecting furniture for a room you are starting fresh, it helps to slow down and ask a few questions. Not about style, but about feeling.",[843,1108,1109,1115,1121,1127,1133],{},[846,1110,1111,1114],{},[331,1112,1113],{},"How do I want this space to make me feel?"," Calm, grounded, welcoming, inspired, or some combination.",[846,1116,1117,1120],{},[331,1118,1119],{},"How will I actually use it day to day?"," A place to gather, to relax, to work, or to unwind.",[846,1122,1123,1126],{},[331,1124,1125],{},"Does this support comfort, not just appearance?"," Is the seating comfortable, and does the scale feel right for the room?",[846,1128,1129,1132],{},[331,1130,1131],{},"Will I still love this when trends shift?"," Am I choosing it because it feels right, or only because it feels current?",[846,1134,1135,1138],{},[331,1136,1137],{},"Does this reflect me, or someone else's idea of a beautiful home?"," This one tends to bring the most clarity.",[76,1140,1142],{"id":1141},"why-feeling-outlasts-fashion","Why Feeling Outlasts Fashion",[12,1144,1145],{},"Homes furnished around feeling age more gracefully. Pieces chosen for comfort, material quality, and proportion are easier to live with and easier to build on as the space fills in over the years. They stop being purchases and become part of everyday life. They collect stories, and they hold the memories of a home that is still finding its shape.",[76,1147,1149],{"id":1148},"how-we-help-you-begin","How We Help You Begin",[12,1151,1152,1153,1156,1157,1160],{},"At Seville Home, our ",[241,1154,1155],{"href":450},"approach"," does not begin with a look. It begins with listening. We ask how you live, how you move through a space, and how you want it to feel when you walk through the door. From there we guide you toward furnishings, drawn from the ",[241,1158,1159],{"href":822},"brands"," we have chosen for their craft and character, that feel considered and lasting from day one.",[12,1162,1163,1164,1167,1168,1171],{},"If you are standing in a new space and unsure where to begin, that is exactly the moment we love. Start with how you want it to feel, and let a complimentary ",[241,1165,451],{"href":1166},"\u002Fconsultation"," help you build from there. Or ",[241,1169,1170],{"href":455},"visit the showroom"," to experience furnishings chosen not just for how they look, but for how they live.",[12,1173,460],{},{"title":127,"searchDepth":128,"depth":128,"links":1175},[1176,1177,1178,1179,1180],{"id":1085,"depth":128,"text":1086},{"id":1095,"depth":128,"text":1096},{"id":1102,"depth":128,"text":1103},{"id":1141,"depth":128,"text":1142},{"id":1148,"depth":128,"text":1149},"\u002Fphotos\u002Fjournal\u002Fhow-you-want-to-feel.jpg","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",857,"2026-01-12","A new home, or a room begun from scratch, starts with a better question than what should go here. 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The birthdays, the long Sunday dinners, the friend who was only going to stay an hour and is still on the sofa at eleven. You did not quite volunteer for it. Your home simply became the place people wanted to be.",[12,1201,1202],{},"A home earns that quietly, and it is almost never the decorating that does it. It is intention. A room built to gather in behaves differently than a room arranged to be looked at.",[76,1204,1206],{"id":1205},"a-room-that-invites-people-to-stay","A Room That Invites People to Stay",[12,1208,1209],{},"Plenty of homes look put-together. Fewer are built to hold a crowd with ease. When seating is arranged for conversation rather than symmetry, people turn toward each other instead of the television. When the scale is right, a full room still feels unhurried. When the sofa is deep enough to sink into, guests settle in instead of perching at the edge.",[12,1211,1212],{},"The years when your home is the gathering place reward furniture chosen for exactly this. Pieces that look composed on a quiet Tuesday and absorb a houseful on a Saturday without missing a step.",[76,1214,1216],{"id":1215},"the-details-a-host-feels-first","The Details a Host Feels First",[12,1218,1219],{},"The difference is usually in the things no guest could name. A lamp that casts warmth instead of brightness, so the evening feels like it can go long. A dining table that stretches to fit one more chair when someone brings a friend. Surfaces beautiful enough to be admired and honest enough to take a set-down glass without a second thought.",[12,1221,1222],{},"These are not stylistic flourishes. They are hospitality, built into the room before anyone arrives.",[76,1224,1226],{"id":1225},"your-home-becomes-the-memory","Your Home Becomes the Memory",[12,1228,1229],{},"Guests rarely recall the greenery on the mantel or which candle was burning. They remember the atmosphere. They remember how they felt being there, the ease of it, the warmth, the way the room softened the edges of a long week. Those are the impressions that linger, and they are what turn a house into the one people keep coming back to.",[12,1231,1232],{},"You are not decorating for an occasion. You are setting the stage for the moments people carry home.",[76,1234,1236],{"id":1235},"building-a-home-that-hosts-your-life","Building a Home That Hosts Your Life",[12,1238,1239],{},"A visit to Seville Home feels different on purpose. Every piece is chosen with clarity, not quantity, and our designers understand that furnishing a gathering home is its own kind of project, one part beauty and one part endurance.",[12,1241,1242,1243,909,1245,1247],{},"If your home is becoming the place everyone gathers, we can help you shape it for the way you actually host, room by room. Begin with a ",[241,1244,908],{"href":1166},[241,1246,912],{"href":455}," before the season you are hosting for.",[12,1249,460],{},{"title":127,"searchDepth":128,"depth":128,"links":1251},[1252,1253,1254,1255],{"id":1205,"depth":128,"text":1206},{"id":1215,"depth":128,"text":1216},{"id":1225,"depth":128,"text":1226},{"id":1235,"depth":128,"text":1236},"\u002Fphotos\u002Fjournal\u002Flinger-couple.jpg","A couple relaxing together on a deep charcoal Huntington House sectional in a sunlit loft, laughing over a laptop and a glass of wine",905,"2025-11-21","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.",{"chapter":931},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fthe-place-everyone-wants-to-linger",{"title":1194,"description":1260},"journal\u002Fthe-place-everyone-wants-to-linger","NvFMi4XTjsL6sC3hWtSNHIS_ImcwvChfc_XhSsXkdq8",{"id":1267,"title":1268,"albumUrl":6,"author":381,"body":1269,"category":525,"cover":1331,"coverAlt":1332,"coverHeight":1333,"coverPortrait":142,"coverWidth":529,"date":1334,"description":1335,"draft":136,"extension":140,"faq":6,"gallery":6,"galleryStyle":6,"meta":1336,"metaTitle":6,"navigation":142,"path":1337,"seo":1338,"series":6,"stem":1339,"topic":6,"__hash__":1340},"journal\u002Fjournal\u002Fa-new-chapter-same-heart.md","A New Chapter, Same Heart",{"type":9,"value":1270,"toc":1328},[1271,1275,1285,1288,1302,1309,1315,1318,1325],[76,1272,1274],{"id":1273},"the-people-who-make-seville-home-home","The People Who Make Seville Home, Home",[12,1276,1277,1278,1281,1282],{},"When ",[249,1279,1280],{},"IN Kansas City Magazine"," shared the news of Seville Home's next chapter, the headline couldn't have been more fitting: ",[249,1283,1284],{},"\"A New Chapter, Same Heart.\"",[12,1286,1287],{},"Because while ownership has changed, the heart of Seville Home has not, and never will. That heart has always been the people who greet you by name, remember your style, and make every visit feel like coming home.",[12,1289,1290,1293,1294,1297,1298,1301],{},[331,1291,1292],{},"Carrie McColgan",", ",[331,1295,1296],{},"Kim Marshall",", and ",[331,1299,1300],{},"Gil Urenda"," embody that spirit. Together, they've shaped Seville Home's reputation for warmth, trust, and design excellence, building relationships that span decades and homes across Kansas City. Their care for every client and every detail is what makes Seville Home more than a showroom. 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The furniture is beautiful, yes, but it's the people who make it meaningful.",[12,1319,1320],{},[241,1321,1324],{"href":1322,"rel":1323},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.inkansascity.com\u002Finnovators-influencers\u002Flocal-news\u002Fseville-home-changes-hands-from-one-kc-couple-to-another\u002F",[245],"Read the full story in IN Kansas City Magazine →",[12,1326,1327],{},"As we look toward the future, we're endlessly grateful to Carrie, Kim, Gil, and every member of our team who carry Seville Home's heart forward, proving that while this may be a new chapter, it's the same Seville Home you've always loved.",{"title":127,"searchDepth":128,"depth":128,"links":1329},[1330],{"id":1273,"depth":128,"text":1274},"\u002Fphotos\u002Fjournal\u002Fsame-heart-couple.jpg","Chastin and Phil Reynolds together inside the Seville Home entrance",1799,"2025-11-05","IN Kansas City Magazine shares the news of Seville Home's next chapter, and the people who carry its heart forward.",{},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fa-new-chapter-same-heart",{"title":1268,"description":1335},"journal\u002Fa-new-chapter-same-heart","kJrlM5qtayfrsSfCG_JxyetIGW4GGBy5aNSo4wuHbBM",{"id":1342,"title":1343,"albumUrl":6,"author":381,"body":1344,"category":525,"cover":1375,"coverAlt":1376,"coverHeight":1377,"coverPortrait":142,"coverWidth":529,"date":1378,"description":1379,"draft":136,"extension":140,"faq":6,"gallery":6,"galleryStyle":6,"meta":1380,"metaTitle":6,"navigation":142,"path":1381,"seo":1382,"series":6,"stem":1383,"topic":6,"__hash__":1384},"journal\u002Fjournal\u002Ffeatured-in-furniture-today.md","\"It Feels Like Home\": Seville Home in Furniture Today",{"type":9,"value":1345,"toc":1373},[1346,1353,1360,1367],[12,1347,1348,1349,1352],{},"We're honored to be featured in ",[249,1350,1351],{},"Furniture Today",", the leading publication for the home furnishings industry.",[12,1354,1355,1356,1359],{},"The story, ",[249,1357,1358],{},"\"It feels like home: New owners take reins at high-end KC retailer,\""," highlights Seville Home's next chapter under local family ownership, and our continued commitment to timeless design, exceptional service, and creating homes that feel as beautiful as they look.",[12,1361,1362],{},[241,1363,1366],{"href":1364,"rel":1365},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.furnituretoday.com\u002Ffurniture-retailer\u002Fit-feels-like-home-new-owners-take-reins-at-high-end-kc-retailer\u002F",[245],"Read the full article on Furniture Today →",[12,1368,1369,1370,1372],{},"Thank you to ",[249,1371,1351],{}," and Thomas Lester for sharing our story.",{"title":127,"searchDepth":128,"depth":128,"links":1374},[],"\u002Fphotos\u002Fjournal\u002Fcarved-chest.jpg","A carved antique chest styled with white orchids, a bronze horse, and a blue ombre lamp beneath a sunset landscape painting",1376,"2025-10-22","Furniture Today spotlights Seville Home's next chapter under local family ownership in Kansas City.",{},"\u002Fjournal\u002Ffeatured-in-furniture-today",{"title":1343,"description":1379},"journal\u002Ffeatured-in-furniture-today","xm4Eb_E7ny_WvU1x5qyyK1YM7nwo8lEXeE5ZgUgjMO0",1787881794705]