We have moved into our new building at 645 Leffingwell Avenue, and we love it!

For almost 15 years, our offices in downtown Kirkwood (which is now for lease) served well, accommodating our ever-expanding team of remodeling experts. But a building can only comfortably hold just so many people, and it was clear we needed a lot more room.

Scott and Judy Mosby found us the perfect new building less than a mile away. We’re still in Kirkwood, we have 4 times more square footage than previous, and all of us are under one roof in a clean and handsome new space.

We’re ultra excited about having a showroom and selections center for our clients, a spacious new room (with an adjacent kitchen) filled with Woodharbor door and cabinetry samples. It’s a comfortable spot where our designers can spread out with homeowners and select all their decor choices, and see how each piece fits into the big picture of their remodeling project.

To best serve a client, it’s best to know exactly what it’s like to go through a remodel. We tackled the new office remodeling project by following the same design-build process we use to guide clients to their ultimate home, and it worked just as beautifully for us as it does for you! A round of applause goes to our very own Judy Mosby, Chris Fischer and Steve Vastine for overseeing all the on-site construction and coordination details that got us into our new home by the original deadline.

The new Mosby World Headquarters required extensive space planning. The existing building was mainly warehouse space, while we needed more office space to accommodate 5 departments. Mosby planners and architects mapped out our needs on paper to make sure we had exactly the right plan before a single hammer swung.

We knocked down some walls, built new ones and transformed a massive space into a precisely functioning office that takes care of us now and gives us plenty of room to grow.

Our new place is divided into a huge warehouse for storage and offices for the employees. The office space is both organized (individual office cubicles) and fluid. This fluidity is a great feature, as it allows us to easily change the function of a space. We have two areas that quickly convert to meeting spaces with room for projecting agendas and educational materials, thus letting us meet our goal of being a virtually paperless office.

Those of us in cubicles have far more storage and counter space than ever before, and easy access to each other.

And access is the key benefit of our new home. We can easily see and hear each other, increasing the effectiveness and pleasure of communication. It is exhilarating to see how each of us is an important link in the chain of a successful home remodel, and this openness has made us a closer-knit family.

How each department uses space was taken into consideration. For example, the production department got a dyed concrete floor so that tracking in dirt from a job site is no big deal. Or consider our Consultants, who need to constantly monitor the pulse of a project. They are out in an open area in the middle of the action, easily available to answer questions and pass on important details of a homeowners needs.

We now have a spacious and professional conference room (with its own bathroom!), and a long hall that will become our library of books, materials and samples that our designers and architects use to give the homeowners exactly what they want.

We also finally have room to do all the things we always longed for. We now have multiple recycling stations, plenty of bathrooms and two kitchens, uniform furniture and accessories and a huge “backyard” for company BBQs.

There’s also proper display cases for all our awards and honors. We weren’t aware of just how much we’ve accomplished in that area until it was all finally in one place.

Same as when you move from one home to another, we still have items to unpack and artwork to be hung, and enjoy discovering new facets of the building every day. And as with any remodel, we have a punch list of items to attend to, the last little details that polish off the project. We truly love our new place; it’s an inviting and professional space that meets all current and future needs, raises our spirits and productivity, and feels like a home away from home. These are the hallmarks of a successful remodel.

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