The rules have changed. Now it’s OK to wear white past Labor Day, and you definitely don’t need to pack up your porch for the year. Here are 5 fresh products to stretch your season with warmth and style. EcoSmart Dish Outdoor Fireplace, Room & Board, $890 No smoke, sparks or soot, just clean-burning heat […]
A Glencoe couple assembles an elite design team to transform their Gold Coast pied-à-terre. “Our vision was to create a beautiful space that would be elegant for entertaining clients and friends, yet casual enough to have all the children and grandchildren feel comfortable to stay with us,” explains the owner of a two-level penthouse in […]
You buy a house. It’s what you put into it that makes it a home.
Working from home offers plenty of flexibility and creativity.
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 […]
Change is good—but it doesn’t have to take a lot of time or effort.
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 […]
No matter the age, your child can benefit from playing a part in decorating his or her room.
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. […]
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 […]
