Tricks of the Trade: Create a Gorgeous Great Room
After the kitchen, chances are the most-used space in your home is the family room or great room.
What Makes a House a Home?
House or home? It’s easy to tell the difference.
Give Your Fridge a Makeover
It’s time to focus on the workhorse of your kitchen. Even if you never cook, chances are your refrigerator sees plenty of action, and it needs your tender loving care. Keep it Safe Just because your food is stored in the fridge, doesn’t mean it’s immune to food-borne illness. Start with the right temperature: 40 […]
Dirty Secret No More: Junk Drawer Clean Up
Everyone has one: that drawer in your kitchen or mudroom that’s filled with the oddest mixture of items—duct tape, safety pins, Sharpies, shoelaces, even gum and spare change.
Tricks of the Trade: Better Your Bath
So your bathroom screams update. Don’t grab the sledgehammer just yet.
Personalize Your Home with Custom Design
You buy a house. It’s what you put into it that makes it a home.
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 […]
Treasure Hunting at Chicago Home Stores
Is it time to do some updating in your home? You may be looking for a fresh take on an entire room or just changing out a few accent pieces. And while we love our North Shore stores, if you’re looking for something new, consider a quick trip to the city. Here are our favorite […]
No Shoes in the House—Here's Why
Your shoes tell the story of where you’ve been, and regardless of your lifestyle, it’s going to be dirty.
Fresh: A Smarter Backyard
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. […]
