If you have ever wanted to grow healthy foods in your backyard, here is your chance. Smart Gardener, an online service that makes it easy to plan the perfect garden, is now introducing Smart Backyard. Smart Backyard works with you to create a one of a kind backyard garden full of your favorite food. […]
With the art fair season getting into full swing, it’s time to dispel some misconceptions about art and interior design. Myth #1: If I own a traditional home, I have to buy traditional art. Just the opposite, declares Anne Loucks, owner of Anne Loucks Gallery in Glencoe “I love the juxtaposition created when interesting, engaging […]
Good design can literally go out the door. With some careful planning, expert advice and the right materials, you can create an outdoor room that’s stylish and comfortable. Have a plan Just as you need a plan for your interior design, likewise think before you execute outdoors. Consider the big picture. Explains Anne Flannery, owner […]
A great neighborhood is hard to define, and wonderful to find. Neighborhoods aren’t legally described geographic locations, like towns; rather, they are a subjective combination of the geographic and the psychological. By intuition and common consensus, people just agree that an area with shared traits is a neighborhood. Shared Great Traits Experts do agree on […]
Call it curb appeal or putting your best foot forward. No question you want the outside of your home to look as great as the inside. We asked some local experts for their thoughts on how to fix up bad exterior architecture. But before you demolish anything, make sure you have a comprehensive plan that […]
Courage Consignments is taking unwanted furniture and giving it a new home. They sell everything from lighting and rugs to antique furniture in their 1,200 square foot Wilmette showroom. Jay and Amy Courage, lifelong furniture collectors, decided to make their hobby into a full-time business, Courage Consignments. They are pros at each step of the […]
Clutter and I have a complicated history. My mother craves neatness and order in her serene suburban bungalow while my late grandmother preferred a more freewheeling environment with cabinets full of dolls, piles of books and pieces of art, mirrors and shelves covering every wall. I fall somewhere in between; keeping the main living areas […]
Once you digitize your photo library, the display options are endless.
Once you’ve converted your photos, negatives, VCR and camcorder tapes to a digital format, you still have to store it. So what’s your best option?
Spring is in full bloom, and it’s finally time to fill our outdoor planters and pots with summery flowers.
