We've completed week two of this years contest and 38 small cool living spaces have been in the spotlight, BUT we are hoping to receive lots more before the Monday deadline. C'mon Chicago, Atlanta, De...
Name: Marilyn and Peter (The Franks and F2)
Home Then: Ranch Style House in Skokie
Home Now: 2 bedroom Duplex Condo in Albany Park, Chicago
Marilyn and Peter's former home is one of the 40 feature...
We just read this in the Open Thread and had to pull it out for everyone to see - looks like there is a big chair sale going on in Madison this weekend......
Knoll is a classic manufacturer of Mid-Century and contemporary designs, and although their prices are steep the quality is impeccable. We love clicking over to fantasize about furniture, but they a...
Megan is looking for some color suggestions: "I have a nice but traditional looking 5 drawer chest that I'm stuck with. It was my bedroom furniture when I was in middle school/high school and has fou...
We are in serious need of better organization for all of our old photo albums and boxes of loose photos, letters, and cards. The Kolo line of fabric albums and storage boxes offers simple, attractive ...
We've blogged Murco Recycling before, and clicking over to their site today, we noticed that a lot of items are on sale. Their inventory is harvested from demolished buildings, and you can bid on or...
Glass pieces from Iittala - three different designers, three different uses, similar price points (for certain sizes) - all beautiful. Which one would you choose for beauty, design longevity and val...
TGIF - Any plans for the weekend?
Hello to AndreaU, Big Dane, and Suewanda!...
• What: The ladies' room at Ritual Coffee Roasters
• Where: San Francisco's Mission District
• When: Photo taken on Thursday, April 3rd at 3:45 pm
• Why: The black-and-white stri...
April in Lincoln ParkWe discovered the paintings of Josh Moulton during a recent visit to Uncommon Ground's new location on Devon Avenue. The urban landscapes and Chicago-centric visions in Moulton's ...
quinxx's clean entryway is lovely and could be even better with plants or a little wall color
We're at the end of Week Five! We hope you took this week to try out some healthy habits at home, like ...
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Name: Brian and Chris...
Note: Due to the server crashes yesterday that made the slideshow for this tour unviewable for much of the day, we are re-publishing today - Enjoy!
Name: Amy
Location: West Rogers Park, Chicago, IL...
Browsing the Maine Cottage website, we spotted a few photos of dining chairs painted in array of colors. We really like the look - with the right chairs, it could be a good way to do something diffe...
A friend of ours in Michigan is thinking of doing a "feature wall" in their home and they like retro styling...it was thanks to them that we featured these great vintage style doors last year and now ...
Kara needs some advice. Her email says: "Help! I bought a new vintage desk and apparently the previous owner had put some kind of label on the draw (see pic). I put several applications of Goo-B-Gon...
In River North, these Room & Board modular shelving units are for sale. $110 for each, $440 for all. More great stuff below, including Eames chairs and nesting tables:
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Just got the email - the Spring Upholstery Sale is on at Jayson Home and Garden......
While compiling today's color combo, we stumbled across Swedish website Colorama, where we found this incredible back porch makeover. Click below for the "before" photo......
Kathleen sent us an email: "This is a really stupid question, but has caused some confusion on the home front...Does a sectional have to be balanced completely (i.e., pieces measure same size on both ...
So seventies (in a good way). In the Spring Cure, we've seen a lot of people painting their spaces in yellows and greens with natural wood furnishings. It's a great color combo for spring, and we th...
Janel's post on the Honeycomb Vase yesterday reminded us of our love for this pattern and texture in design. Our absolute favorite is David Hicks' classic Hexagon Wallpaper (shown above). Click belo...
Right now we're helping a friend scour the depths of Ebay for a decent Nelson-esque slat bench. Personally, we've never been that big on buying big on Ebay. Relying solely on photos and an unknown v...
In the East Village, an Eames folding screen for $1100. The seller says it is about 10 years old and in A+ condition. Jump below for links to this and more of today's finds:
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AT:NY mentioned CorkStore a while ago in their review of Jelinek Cork Products, and we recently followed that lead to look for supplies for a project of our own. In our search for small cork sheets,...
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Time has flown and we've grown a lot since our first birthday. Last year we celebrated by taking a look at the oh-so-scientific surveys that we run to find out about the AT Chicago reader - we are rer...
We've seen the IVY hooks before on blogs, but never thought too much of them until we saw them in person at Rare Device in San Francisco. We love the way they can be positioned as a traditional hook...
Colleen sent us an email: "Help! I painted one wall in my living room Hallowed Hush by Behr. It is a teal color and looks a bit darker than these pictures show. I am concerned it is too bright and obn...
For those with an itch to paint, this just in from painting instructor Aaron Delehanty:
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Oltremare is a member of the Spring Cure. We've seen a little bit of her dining room, but we got really excited when we started to see her artwork popping up in Flickr. She's been using collages to ...
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Name: Rachel
Location: St. Louis, MO
Size: 632 sf
Rent/Own: Rent
What is the advantage of SMALL? The advantage of Small has been that even on a grad school budget ...
Although we love buying things on craigslist, we hate being a seller and weeding through weird emails from potential buyers. We need to get rid of a few pieces of furniture for our move next month. ...
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April is Small, Cool month!
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Remember steph vixen's snowy porch? This is what it looks like now.
Just checking in. We don't have a picture-filled Cure post for you (look for that one on Friday), but we did want to say that we...
Shortly after posting about the very cool Honeycomb Vases earlier today, we heard from Moss. The vases will we available at (and only at) Moss (150 Greene Street, NYC) and are premiering the week of I...
If, like us, you're holding strong to the antler trend but sometimes (always?) get creeped out by a real skull fragment on your wall, you should check out Dear Deer by Bernhard Grafl. The traditional...
Thankfully no one was standing under our kitchen light fixture. We'd noticed that after our electrician hung our glass pendant fixtures (shown here yesterday, sigh), that the top edge of the hardware ...
For many people, dorms are the first small home away from family. Dorms also have some green qualities - university housing usually provides compact community living for large groups of people. Still,...
Studio Libertiny has collaborated with 40,000 honeybees to create this piece. A reaction to and comment on mass-production, it "concedes the human manufacturing process to something simpler and more b...
Mindy's got a dilemma: "My mouth literally dropped when I saw this post today on the lotus panel. I was recently in the Asian "antique" store Wow&Zen in Wicker Park/Bucktown with some clients of mine...
In our classifieds, Amy is selling this Delancy sofa from Room & Board for $800. Purchased less than a year ago, the condition is great and Amy is also willing to make a deal including the white shag ...
A_StoolChicago furniture designer Jonathan Nesci debuted last year at ICFF. His line features five sleek sculptural pieces made from his current material of choice - powder coated aluminum. Jump below...
One of the best moments of the Design Meetup last Thursday was hearing the big news from Bart aka Magnaverde, long time AT:Chicago reader and an entrant in last year's Small Cool Contest. It seems the...
As a kid visiting my grandma in Virginia, I saw just about every Jeffersonian landmark in the area. She lived down the road from Poplar Forest, Jefferson's summer home, and I developed an early appr...
Dorie sent in a question for all the AT design minds: "I just bought the Andover table and Corbin chairs in cherry from Room & Board and I’m wondering what kind of rug/lighting combo would work best...
Our kitchen has come a long way in the last two months. We still have a long list of things to do, but the good news is we are now cooking regularly on our $99 South Bend six-burner range (yay, Craigs...
We've blogged this idea before, but we thought we'd bring it up again for Small Cool month, since it's such a doable solution for a small space. In place of a console table or sofa table, a dresser ...
Wall Size Photo Murals - 10ftx8ft - $200Jump below for voting, links and details:...
Very small and very cool. We found this summer home in Asserbo, Denmark through the Slow Home website. Designed by Christensen & Co Architects, it's essentially a glassed-in platform porch with a ro...
Normally we get our San Francisco fix by reading AT:SF, but last week we got to go in person. We stayed with friends, visited a few gardens, and took snapshots of our favorite details from the homes...
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Name: M. Cole
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Size: 385 sf
Rent/Own: Rent
What is the advantage of SMALL? My relatively small living space is in a good human scale. ...
On a recent trip to IKEA, we almost walked right by this ingenious product because we didn't see it. What we did notice, however, was the floating chairs. KROKVIK chair hangers are brackets which mo...
Known for its stationery and card selection, All She Wrote is also a monogramming megaland. For the monogramming novice, the store offers suggestions and tips for getting things just right. Did you kn...
When we posted a roundup of wood and white furniture, Tyler from Plastolux sent us a link to his own wood and white IKEA hack. Tyler is a talented hacker - AT:SF featured one of his earlier projects...
Attention all Cure members! Thinking about picking up some cash with the items in your outbox? Going to try Craigslist or eBay?
You may not be letting go of a fabulous Elvis decanter, but this new "...
Kim sent in an email: "I was wondering if you might have any suggestions where I could find a sofa similar to this in style? It is the Sahara sofa from Domicile. However, Domicile is located in Linc...
Eco-friendly (recycled and chemical-free) textile collections from Kravet Green are appropriately inspired by and named after nature's elements: Fire, Earth, Ocean. The organic patterns mirror those t...
A Warren Platner coffee table with a marble top and metallic bronze base is for sale. The seller says,"Base is in great condition, without pitting or rust. Top has two small knicks to the edge and one...
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Architect Philippe Harden's loft is 13 meters (about 42 feet) from end to end, with a total area of 57 square meters (around 613 sq. feet). Not big, in fact, it could easily fit within the dimensions ...
We're at the start of week two of this year's contest and 21 small cool living spaces have made it into the limelight, BUT we are hoping for lots more. C'mon Chicago, Altanta, Detroit, Dallas, Houston...
House Beautiful 04.2008
House Beautiful asked 12 designers to divulge their favorite colors for small rooms. Their answers ranged from reflective white to a deep brown......
Magazines as decor? Why not? While these are obviously loved and have been read many, many times (check out the worn spines in the close-up), these old National Geographics are also providing a hit of...
With the weather breaking over the weekend, all of our new neighbors emerged. We had chats over fences, were brought a bag of homemade oatmeal cookies from a family down the street, answered the door ...
We love using lacquer boxes to inject a shot of color into a room. These new lacquer boxes from West Elm come in a bright blue and a pumpkin-colored orange......
Amanda has a question for the crowd: "Hi AT! I have a large built in bookcase around my fireplace. It is the main focal point in my living room, taking up a wall the length of our house (in conjuncti...
Chicago Magazine 04.2008
Before Spring (preview) from uji films on Vimeo
The April issue of Chicago Magazine honors a few of Chicago's green innovators: people that have helped us to address our environmental impact on ...
Ask us if we believe in ghosts and we'd probably say no. BUT, we love a good story, we get caught up in others' experiences (and suspend our disbelief), and after recent events at home, don't think it...
merskine's TV and music setup
This week we deal with media in the home: wrangling it, taming it, and learning to break free from it. We're dealing with cord clutter and trying to clear some clutte...
We are in awe of these floors! Farmhouse chic thrives at Carlisle but we've also never seen wide-planked flooring look so modern and fresh. Yet in green terms, this flooring is the furthest thing fr...
AT has featured PB Teen (for all ages) several times: bedroom inspiration, smart bedside table, and cushy lounge seating (so cute!). Add these "Adjust-tables" into the mix and you've got a fun, great ...
Our friend Mike's bedroom has a fireplace (we're so jealous!) but no closet space. To make up for the lack of storage, he modified the built-in cabinets that flank the hearth...
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Interior designer Andree Putman had these wise words to share regarding style: "Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, y...
This red Risom lounge chair is for sale and about 2 years old. The chair was designed in 1941 by Jens Risom for Knoll as an exclusive line. A classic piece in a great color - asking $450 (runs $750 n...
We've been looking for some new floor pillows to use at home. We like to sit at our round coffee table and our old pillows finally gave out - too many trips through the wash. In our search we found th...
Reader's favorite posts on AT:Chicago in the past week? A tour of Jessica & Alex's Simple Modern On a Budget (shown above), all the details of Nicole's new small space guest room, a roundup of all ...
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