It's all in the details...

For Patrick Ottesen, owner of Foundation, KCMO, it's "all in the details."

“It’s in the detailing and however and how far (customers) wish to take that vision,” he says.

Ottesen was an architectural student before opening his own architectural salvage business in Kansas City's trendy West Bottoms. Interior designer Nate Berkus, of The Nate Berkus Show, was one of his customers when he worked at Architectural Artifacts, Inc. in Chicago.

For more ideas from Ottesen on how to reuse or repurpose antique and vintage items, go to: http://www.discoverypub.com/feature/index.html

Welcome

This is the first post in "Discover Mid-America"'s new (and only) blog. We welcome our readers, advertisers and random Internet surfers who stumble upon us — kinda like finding some valuable and scarce antique at a flea market. Okay, enough of the lousy analogies.

Our October 2007 is back from the printer today. We will start distribution this coming week. It's a good issue, on fiddles! Fiddle players love old fiddles, not necessarily because they're old but because they sound good.

The new edition should be up on the Web by mid-week. Let us know what you think. And look for posts from other DMA staff members.

Bruce R.