Tribune Architecture Critic Blair Kamin’s 10 Favorite Sights on the North Shore
If you’re looking for inspiration to explore our communities this summer—with visitors, or without—we have advice from an expert.
Fresh: Design Time
Looking to spruce up your house this summer? The Design Center for Your Home (formerly known as the Design Center for Kitchen and Bath), located in Niles, recently opened a second location in Wilmette. In addition to kitchen and baths, the center can also design and remodel dens, laundry rooms, offices spaces, additions and closets. […]
A Multi-Faceted Home
In 2006, a Highland Park family hired Rebekah Zaveloff, interior designer and co-founder of KitchenLab and Design In a Bag, to design a plan to expand and modernize the kitchen of their nineteenth century Victorian-style Foursquare. But Zaveloff’s eclectic elegance and penchant for incorporating one-of-a-kind vintage pieces so impressed the family that soon enough, they […]
A Classic Beauty: The American Farmhouse
Many North Shore houses reside on land that used to be farmland. Illinois, our beloved Prairie State, is made up of thousands of acres of land running from the base of Wisconsin to the Kentucky border. As the nation expanded westward, farmers settled on this land, starting in the late 1600s through the late 1800s. […]
6 Favorite Things: Antiques & Garden Fair 2011
This year’s Antiques & Garden Fair at the Chicago Botanic Garden had wonderful displays, (Hellebores and Euphorbias will be popular in gardens this year) and lots of beautiful antique accessories for the garden and home.
Mudroom Makeover: 3 Simple Tips
Having a mudroom is uber-important to Chicagoland families, no matter how big or bite-size their home may be.
A Kitchen Cabinet Facelift
Who doesn’t dream of having Ina Garten’s kitchen?
The Floral Report: Chic and Simple Does It
Flowers and plants may be required at a soiree, but a growing number of designers are ditching the lace and Baby’s Breath in favor of arrangements and centerpieces with a more contemporary aesthetic. “There is an explosion of modern, simple home decor that has been going strong for awhile now,” says Epoch Floral co-owner Mike […]
A Guide to Collecting Art
Richard Norton Gallery founder Richard Norton and Gallery Director Susan Klein-Bagdade share their collecting tips. Located at the Country House in Deerfield and on the sixth floor of the Merchandise Mart, Richard Norton Gallery specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth century American and European impressionist and modern paintings, drawings and sculptures with a special focus […]
10 Ideas to Transform Your Place Setting from Boring to Brilliant
By now most of us have had enough of our wedding pattern.
