Here’s a taste of new restaurants in the KC area, from doughnut shops and beer bars to ramen restaurants, burger joints and pizza pubs.

Kelly Cook is the designer. Steven Cline is the builder. Their firm, Cook+Cline Design & Build Co., has grown in three years from an idea run out of a garage, to a business with a showroom featuring hundreds of unique home improvement products. The couple promotes a style that is modern and old fashioned at the same time.

They’re choosing life in downtown Kansas City to be near its growing arts community, creative venues and great restaurants. It is a style of living attracting native Kansas Citians, who grew up in the suburbs but like urban living. It is also provides a spot for transplants who have lived in big cities around the world, to feel at home.

A handy DIY couple, Trevor and Courtney Bond, create a comfortable and inviting home in Prairie Village.