Edited by Gina Bazer Attention, Chicago design lovers: We have a book for your coffee table! The editors of Chicago Home + Garden have created Chicago Spaces: Inspiring Interiors (Agate, $45), a compilation of the best projects we’ve featured in our magazine over the past five years. Included are both complete homes and individual rooms—page … Read more
Edited by Gina Bazer Plain & Fancy, a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of kitchen cabinets, is getting fancier, opening a not-so-plain 2,000-square-foot showroom (the only one of its kind in the country) at LuxeHome in the Merchandise Mart. A collaboration with its Chicago distributor, Dandamudi’s, the space will officially be called Plain & Fancy by Dandamudi’s and … Read more
You’ve made your bed, and you’ve got to lie in it, but are you as comfy and happy as you could be?
I stopped by the grand opening of A’ville’s newest grocery and retail destination, Urban Orchard (at 5212 North Clark Street, the old Urbanest space) last weekend, and it was a bustling scene…
New home store in Forest Park is an amazing source for vintage finds…
Most homeowners would rather die than open their messy closets to public inspection, but Florense’s new line could change that…
Arrin Williams compares his new Andersonville store, The Haymaker Shop, devoted entirely to objects and furniture made in Chicago and elsewhere in the Midwest, to the farm-to-table movement in the restaurant world…
Over the long weekend I tackled a long-delayed project: painting an old Heywood-Wakefield end table with high-gloss black paint…
On a recent visit to A Lamp and Fixture Shoppe, I discovered these beautiful filigreed steel light fixtures…
Kelly Rauch’s interior design studio Twice is typically open only by appointment, but tomorrow night you can stop by 5400 West Belmont Avenue and check out all the services and products that are offered out of the atelier…
