Personalize Your Home with Custom Design
You buy a house. It’s what you put into it that makes it a home.
Workable Home-Office Décor
Working from home offers plenty of flexibility and creativity.
Luxury for Less: Redesigning a Small Space on a Budget
Two North Shore designers team up to redesign a Lincoln Park pied-à-terre for $25,000. “I describe this project as luxury for less,” explains Randy Heller, of Randy Heller Pure & Simple Interior Design in Highland Park. The challenge for Heller was to completely redesign and furnish her clients’ 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom pied-à-terre in Chicago’s Lincoln Park […]
Small Renovation Projects that Make a Big Difference
Change is good—but it doesn’t have to take a lot of time or effort.
Fresh: Paramour Bungalow
Put Paramour Bungalow on your list of spots to visit to do something different with your home décor. This new Evanston home accessories shop is all about unique, colorful, handmade items that will bring life into any room in your home. Pieces are quirky and eccentric in a charming-chic kind of way—and you can be […]
Bedroom Style from Toddler to Teen
No matter the age, your child can benefit from playing a part in decorating his or her room.
Park Place: A Private Oasis in Highland Park
Interior design firm Cannon Frank helps a busy couple create a relaxing retreat on the edge of a forest in Highland Park. When one couple purchased a contemporary 4-bedroom home on a forested setting in Highland Park, they hired interior designers John Cannon and Cary Frank, of Cannon Frank, to help them remodel the home. […]
Home Design: Bachelor Pad, Family Style
A Winnetka man’s one-time bachelor pad now includes many family-friendly features. Although happily married today, the owner of this Cedar Shake home on the lakefront in Winnetka was a divorced father of three grown children when he began construction on the house 6 years ago. “Building the house was a special project and a way […]
The Art of the Mix: Blending Antiques with Mid-Century Furnishings
Glencoe designer Missie Bender helps this North Shore family marry their antique pieces and modern furnishings in high style. Good design is a powerful thing, a point confirmed during my recent visit to Jon and Betsy Tilkemeier’s four-bedroom mid-century ranch home in Glencoe with the couple’s interior designer, Missie Bender. The Tilkemeier’s youngest son, Charlie, […]
Products to Pump Up Your Porch
There’s more to porch style than a wooden swing and plastic chairs.
