Omaha Home: new on the block Story by Bailey Hemphill • Photos by minorwhitestudios.com & Colin Conces
New on the Block
When shopping for something special for your home, you need special places to shop. Advanced House Plans 16920 Wright Plaza #162 (Shops of Legacy)
Tom Clark
Tom Clark and Jason Diederich first met when they worked together at a residential architectural firm. Although they enjoyed their time at the firm, both wanted to explore new ideas and start a business that would deliver a professional level of architectural design and services, and yet also be affordable for clients. They combined their backgrounds of architecture and computeraided design and drafting, and launched Advanced House Plans in 2002. Clark and Diederich founded Advanced House Plans with an emphasis on lifestyle-centered home design. “Most people want the same things in a home, but everyone looks at them differently,” Clark explains. “We sit down with people, see what they want and how they want to live in a house, and then we can work with a builder so we can design around them instead of around the model.” Advanced House Plans offers stock plans, stock plans that can be modified, and custom home plans at many different price points to people of all backgrounds—young families, empty-nesters, builders, single people, newlyweds, retirees, young professionals, older families, etc. Clark and Diederich collaborate with a group of vendors and builders, most of which they have long-standing
The Humble Home 5022 Leavenworth Street
Andrea Tonniges
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september/october • 2011
Andrea Tonniges’ father owned a salvage yard for more than 40 years, so she grew up around antiques. She loved learning about the difference in craftsmanship and the unique detail put into each piece, and found refurbishing was a great way to relieve stress. Her friends always loved the pieces she worked on and eventually wanted to buy them from her, which made her think that maybe other people would be interested in buying them as well. Together, with her husband Kyle, Andrea took a chance and started The Humble Home. Humble Home is a retail shop that sells repurposed items, unusual things, and Midcentury Modern pieces; they also offer refurbishing services. The Tonnigeses don’t care about item pedigree—in fact, it doesn’t even have to be an antique for them to repurpose www.OmahaPublications.com