Our Story
People often ask why we purchased Seville Home. Phil and I came to Seville Home from two different—but complementary—places.
From a business standpoint, Phil saw a healthy, well-run company with strong fundamentals. Seville Home had an established reputation, a loyal client base, and a disciplined approach to product and partnerships. It represented thoughtful diversification and a long-term investment in a category that rewards patience, quality, and consistency. The business already worked—and that mattered.
For me, the connection was more personal.
I’ve always believed that home is one of the most powerful forces in people’s lives. It’s where stability is felt, where relationships deepen, and where everyday moments quietly become memory. The below essay The Meaning of Nice reflects that belief.
Together, our reasons converged. Phil recognized a strong, enduring business. I recognized a brand that already stood for something I deeply believe in. We didn’t buy Seville Home to change its soul—we bought it to protect it, steward it forward, and continue serving Kansas City in a way that feels thoughtful, grounded, and lasting.
The Meaning of Nice
A letter from Chastin Reynolds, Owner
When I was a little girl, my grandmother used to tell me that one day I would have nice things.
At the time, I understood exactly what she meant—or at least I thought I did. My mom was seventeen when she had me. She was still a teenager herself, which meant my grandmother played a central role in raising me. None of us had much. We lived on a small farm.
Our clothes came from garage sales. We rolled pennies. We grew our own food. We learned how to stretch what we had and make it last.
So when my grandmother talked about nice things, I heard better.
Better than scarcity. Better than having to make do. Nice meant improvement. Stability. The belief that life could someday feel easier than it did in that moment.
What I didn’t understand then was that she wasn’t really talking about objects. She was planting a belief.
Psychologists have long studied how expectations spoken early in life shape the paths we take later. Children absorb these messages before they can question them.
When someone you trust quietly tells you what your future can hold, you begin—often without realizing it—to build toward that story.
The words become a framework. A lens through which possibility is measured.
For a long time, nice things felt like arrival, but time has undoubtedly changed that definition for me.
As I’ve grown older, my understanding of nice has expanded and softened. It turns out to be a flexible word—one shaped by context, experience, and season of life. Nice now means kindness and consideration. It means warmth. It means being pleasant to be around and living in a way that invites that same care back.
Nice means contentment.
It means feeling settled rather than constantly striving.
Nice still includes a beautiful home. But it also includes a strong family. Children I adore. A husband I love. Friends who matter. A community that feels familiar and grounding. Work that feels meaningful rather than performative.
Nice is no longer about having more.
Nice is about living well.
That belief sits at the heart of Seville Home.
The pieces in our showroom are beautiful, but beauty alone doesn’t create meaning.
Furniture doesn’t arrive with emotion attached to it.
A sofa becomes special when it’s where you curl up with your child for movie night.
When your daughter’s favorite blanket always ends up in the same corner.
When a chair becomes your mother’s favorite place to sit without anyone ever naming it.
Furniture doesn’t create love… but it holds it.
Somewhere along the way, Seville Home became a metaphor for me—not for luxury as status, but for luxury as care. For choosing pieces that support real life rather than staged perfection. For surrounding ourselves with things that make life gentler, warmer, and more connected.
What I want for our community is simple.
I want people to have nice things.
To enjoy them.
To live with them.
To let them become part of their story.
I want families in Leawood and across the greater Kansas City area to absorb a quiet message, just as I once did—that their lives are worthy of beauty, comfort, and care. That home is a place where they are safe, seen, and supported. That nice isn’t something you earn later, but something you’re allowed to live inside of now.
Home is where we begin writing that story. And as we grow—our families, our friendships, our lives—we get to redefine what nice means again and again, reflected in the pieces we choose to bring into our homes.
That’s the meaning of nice.
And that’s the kind of home Seville Home exists to help create.