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Clip File: 10 Warm Color Combos
It's snowy and beautiful here in Chicago. Festive and quiet and covered in white, just right for the holidays. But what it isn't is....warm. To heat thing up a bit on the blog, we decided to go back i...
Last-Minute Gift Ideas from Komoda
For 5 years, Sherri Gregorcyk has been helping us find gifts for our loved ones, often at the last minute (we're procrastinators). We first met Sherri when she worked at RR#1, a beautiful Chicago ap...
Look! Pet-Friendly & Wheat Pasted Tree
AT:Chicago reader, Adrienne Rogers opted out of a traditional Christmas tree this year. Instead, she designed this graffiti-inspired ice cream cone tree. Adrienne simply printed it out and wheat p...
Good Quotes: On Wearing the "Remodeling Pants"
At Decorno, a quote on the stresses of home improvement on a relationship:
At the tile shop tonight, we saw a sign they had posted which read,
HUSBANDS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SELECT GROUT WITHOUT A NOTE...
Inspiration: Carpeted Rooms
Every once in a while, we receive questions about how to decorate if you rent an apartment with wall-to-wall carpet. We fully believe that carpeted homes can be just as stylish as ones with hardwood...
My Christmas Devotion To Ding Dong Ditch
When you think of the game Ding Dong Ditch, chances are it doesn't involve the season of giving. Visions of sugar plums aren't dancing in your head and you're usually more concerned with making the ...
Martha's Trees, Vintage Vacation & Kim's Kitchen
Slinks for 12.19.08
Seen on the web today: A gallery of MSL trees past and present, vintage vacationland illustrations, a great ebay find and Kim's kitchen. All links below:...
Home Sweet Home from Etsy
The ideas of home and stories of people opening their doors to friends, acquaintances and strangers alike have been flooding AT this week. It's heartening to see that the true season of giving is not ...
Flickr Finds: Eve's Mid-Century Housewarming
Montreal
With holiday party season in full swing, we just had to share these pics of Eve's recent Mid-Century Housewarming party. What better setting for the 50's-themed party than Eve's Warm and Witty Loft?...
The Gallery: Yuken Teruya
Yuken Teruya constructs intricate paper cuttings from waste materials: toilet paper rolls, shopping bags, newspapers. His artworks are caught in transitional moments, when a paper bag begins to evol...
Design Heure Projection Lamps
Table lamps with a built in slide projection system are the specialty of Design Heure and they've just come out with some new designs. The tech is simple and straightforward: a light source, mirrors, ...
Secrets of Simplicity
This new book, Secrets of Simplicity by Mary Carlomagno has the tagline, Learn to Live Better With Less. It's yet another tome on clutter control and organization, a subject that we see with somewhat ...
Modern Lincoln Park Home
Contemporist
This modern home, featured on Contemporist, was designed by Chicago architects Lohan Anderson and decorated by interior design firm Leslie Jones & Associates. Our favorite part of the house is the w...
Chicago Postcard Archives
Time Out Chicago
Vintage postcards can be as meaningful as they are beautiful. Whether passed down through your own family or found at a garage sale or antique shop with strangers' notes, postcards recalling past eras...
Scavenger: DWR Mag Table for $75
Chicago
On Lake Shore Drive, a DWR Mag Table in "excellent condition" for $75. Jump below for links to this and more good finds:
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House Tour: Patrick's World of Wonder
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House Tour: Patrick's World of Wonder
Montreal
Name: Patrick Foisy
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Size: 1027 s.f.
Years lived in: 1, owned
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Visit Patrick's loft in the converted Viau cookie factory and one is in for a surprise...
Before & After: Modern Makeover of a Chicago Condo
Chicago Home + Garden
The November/December issue of Chicago Home features an amazing renovation of a Lake Shore Drive condo. Granted this "before" shot is seriously "unstyled" but that only adds to the level of inspirati...
Roundup: Modern Plaid
Plaid is popular. No longer relegated to the nubby brown basement couch, modern plaids are now available in grays, yellows, and pinks. Designers like Marcel Wanders are using plaid on the wall, and ...
Look! Luxor Highlighter Posters
We try our hardest to de-brand our homes, but along comes a great marketing campaign for Luxor Highlighters and we couldn't google fast enough to see if prints were available. The highlighted text a...
Good Questions: Dealing with All Brick Walls?
Rachel wants to know: How do you create a fabulous design with all brick walls? All of the advice I read says "paint it, paint it, paint it," but I can't because I'm renting! I'm moving into an apartm...
Fast and Cheap: Last-Minute Holiday Decorating
We're a little behind in our holiday decorating. With so much going on in the month of December, it can be hard to find time to put up a tree, string lights, and prepare your home for the season. If...
Hot or Not? Frangipani Light Chain
We remember the great AT reader interest in the past for those lighted flower branches, so when we saw this frangipani light chain, we just had to ask...hot or not?...
AT on... Living with Someone Else's Family
During my freshman year of high school (*shudder*), my family moved to a new town because of my stepfather's job. He left in the fall, but in order to finish out the semester, my mom and I stayed unti...
Combination Bed/Bath from the One Hotel
Most hotel rooms combine bedrooms and bathrooms in a small space, but the One Hotel in Cambodia actually combines the bed itself with a double sink system. Mounted to the opposite site of the headbo...
Good Questions: Using Fashion Fabrics for Upholstery?
Haris sent in a good question: Hello! Congrats on the fantastic website! I often see fantastic pieces of fabric that are intended for clothing use (suits, skirts, etc) but I would love to use them to ...
Inspiration: White Bedrooms from Pine Cone Hill
We often associate white rooms with modern design, but Pine Cone Hill's bedrooms prove that it works just as well for French country style. Their interiors feature old-school metal bedframes with la...
Five Minute Decorating Ideas from Real Simple
The first of Real Simple's five minute decorating ideas is easy and free: they suggest taking your family holiday cards from years past and displaying them in chronological order (I think they're pres...
Scavenger: West Elm Modern White Bookcase for $200
Chicago
In Andersonville, a white West Elm bookcase for $200. Jump below for links:
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Same Space, Two Ways : Classic vs Modern Storage
David Jimenez Design
On Monday we kicked off a short series of 3 posts on the power of furniture and accessory style on the overall feel of a room. We started off with the dining area, followed by the home office of a Car...
Bed-Rooms Within Bedrooms
Paola and John have a big, beautiful house with a large bedroom. This four-poster bed sections off the room without the use of walls, and the artwork between the posts helps to further define the ar...
Chipping Concrete: What To Do?
The floors in our loft have two beams that run the width of the room. Atop these beams is poured concrete that has began to chip. We aren't concerned with the structure of the building, but would ...
What's Your Design Dare?
Design dare? You know, the one project that you are always sort of "daring" yourself to do...but never actually get around to. For us, it is painting our wooden floors white. Honestly, we've been talk...
White Apartment, Black Accents
Found on UK site Light Locations (a resource for photo industry professionals seeking good backdrops), this black-and-white apartment struck us as a slightly different take on a classic look. We lov...
Ribbon Wreath: Using Scraps For Decoration
Being a packrat at heart, scraps of things that could be used for craft/art projects are always saved around our house. With penny pinching days upon us, we find ourselves utilizing them to make sim...
Good Questions: Remedy for Yellowed Casalino Chairs?
Ami sent us an email: Hi AT! Long time reader, first time questioner here. We bought 4 vintage Casalino molded plastic chairs off of Craigslist: Unfortunately the plastic has yellowed with age. Whe...
Favorite Family Furniture and Heirlooms
This bedroom set belongs to my 94 year old grandmother. Purchased at a garage sale in Berwyn, Illinois in the early 1940s at the start of my grandparents' marriage, it is still some of the favorite fu...
Modern Love
Can't believe we missed Modern Love's 5th annual charity auction benefiting cancer research and emotional support programs. However, there's still a way to contribute right now - a few Modern Love l...
Inspiration: Natural Wall Coverings from Phillip Jeffries
Phillip Jeffries specializes in handcrafted wall coverings. No vinyl here, just natural materials like raffia, paper weaves, grasscloth, hemp, linen, and even gold leaf. The look is simple and free ...
5 Simple Items to Make a Guestroom More Welcoming
Holiday houseguests are a big part of this time of the year. Family and friends gathering to celebrate and visit together are not tough customers - your nearest and dearest don't mind if the towels a...
Good Questions: Help for Cold Floors?
Graham sent us an email: Hi AT, I've got a question that I am sure anyone in Chicago or anywhere cold would love some help with. I live in a garden/basement apartment, and unfortunately, it has tile...
New Eco Collection Blankets from In2Green
The last time we wrote about In2Green's cotton blankets, they had a cool product made from recycled yarn, but not a lot of options for color or pattern. Now their line has grown from just a few styl...
Lighting from The White Attic
There are few things more valuable in the winter than good lighting. We limit our overhead light use by turning on lamps galore - it's warm, comforting, and essential in rooms that don't get a ton of ...
Scavenger: Eames Management Chair for $1600
Chicago
In Wisconsin, a Herman Miller Eames Management Chair in Black from DWR. Purchased in June, the seller says it is in perfect condition. Jump below for links:
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Same Space, Two Ways : Classic vs Modern Office
David Jimenez Design
Yesterday we kicked off a mini series of posts on the power of furniture and accessory style on the overall feel of a room. We started off with the dining area of a Carriage House in Kansas City by de...
On Sale: Living Room Furniture from Jayson
Right now, Jayson Home & Garden is hosting a sale of floor samples and upholstered pieces, with markdowns over fifty percent on many items. Jayson's rare, vintage, and hard-to-find pieces are defini...
How To: Set a Party Table Without Buying Anything New
Image from Domino's article on throwing a potluck.
The Fall Cure has recently ended and party season is in full swing. In Week 2 we decluttered our kitchens, so we don't want to "reclutter" the ca...
Drunken Dinner Parties...Out of Fashion?
“Are you shaying I’m drunk?” she demanded. Even in the candlelight I noticed that the lipstick she had reapplied was slightly to the left of her lips. Her husband, suddenly bellicose, sprang fro...
Wallpaper from Anna French
This look's not for everyone. It's very girly, full of pastels, but also very well done. Anna French's wallpapers update Victorian-inspired patterns with 21st century materials: low-VOC papers, natu...
Store Tour: Nest Furniture & Mattress
Lincoln, Nebraksa
Most of the time the state of Nebraska isn't what one might think of as being a design hot spot. But a small store by the name of Nest is trying to change that perspective. Nest is a collection of ...
A Sneak Peek at the Unison Holiday Market
For your favorite chef!Gifts and goodies from one of our favorites, local design team Unison, are on offer this week during a special holiday market. Now is your chance to visit their Chicago studio, ...
Spending Holidays with Strangers
When I was a kid, I remember spending Christmas in California with my dad and stepmother; some years they'd invite dozens of in-need folks from San Francisco's Glide Memorial to their house for a hot ...
Survey: Do Carolers Come to Your Home?
I remember going caroling as a child. It was as much a tradition as stockings and Santa, focusing mainly on homes of the elderly in the community. It wasn't until many years later that I experienced c...
Mod Interior by CREA International
This interior by architecture firm CREA International looks like it might be a lobby in a cutting-edge hotel, an ultra-mod living room, or a still from the set of Stanley Kubrick's 2001, but it's no...
Coming Soon: A Greener Murphy Bed
This modern Murphy bed is LEED & FCC certified, has been created with eco-friendly woods, developed to be urea free and formaldehyde free AND we cant complain about the super simple styling...jump be...
7 Places to Use Pegboard from Martha Stewart
Martha always has good organizing ideas, and many of them involve pegboard. The lady loves it. We searched through the MS archives for a few of our favorite ideas. Follow the links below to step-by-...
Win this Orange Vintage Telephone from Zella Brown!
Holiday Giveaway 2008
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Name: Orange Vintage Telephone
Shop: Zella Brown
Value: $300
Today in our Holiday Giveaway we're pleased to present this Orange Vintage Telephone from Zella Brown. This 1970'...
Emergency Kits for Power Outages
Speaking on the phone yesterday with a (non AT) co-worker in New Hampshire, she told me from her rotary phone that her village of 1,100 had been without power since the early hours of last Friday morn...
Scavenger: Room and Board York Sofa for $700
Chicago
In Lakeview, a 73" Room and Board York Sofa in Desmond Otter fabric for $700. The seller says, this is such a steal. The couch was pretty much unused and now we have no room for it so need to sell. It...
Same Space, Two Ways : Classic vs Modern Dining
David Jimenez Design
We recently ran across some very good examples of the power of furniture and accessory style on the overall feel of a room. Designer David Jimenez has a series of photos on his site that show the same...
Living Room Storage Options for "Hiders"
A while ago, we wrote about the difference between seekers (people who like all their stuff out in the open) and hiders (those of us that like it all tucked away). After compiling some open storage ...
Look! Edible Holiday Wreath
We're sad we didn't think of this earlier this summer when we had fresh herbs coming out of our ears, but even still we love the idea of hanging something up that is used and not just adornment. Wha...
Monogram Boxes, Chipmunks and Dressed Up Doorways
Slinks for 12.15.08
Seen on the web today: Monogram-able red stacking boxes, home of Bronwyn Keenan and Michael Powers, a Chipmunk Christmas and dressy doorways...jump below for all the links:...
Casino Eslava Association by Kahle Oíza Arauzo Architects
After spotting this image in Thonet's catalog, we were so struck by the arrangement of chairs on the wall that we went searching for a little more information. Turns out the space is a 1930s buildin...
Up In The Air: Roadside Projects On Etsy
Jayme McGowan came to our attention this past August when Carrie over at Ohdeedoh gave us the heads up to her work. Since then we have seen some high flying things from the Roadside Etsy store and w...
A Holiday Reflection: The Best Day of the Season
Yesterday we picked out a Christmas tree at the lot in our neighborhood and I remembered how much I love "tree decorating" day. I love how it never changes......
Overstock Bedding and Blankets from Lands' End
Every few years, my Christmas gift to myself tends to be a new set of sheets, a great blanket or new throw (we can never have too many throws; with the heat kept low we are constantly wrapped in this ...
Woodland Snowflakes by Pretty Ditty
We love the look of these Woodland Snowflakes over at Pretty Ditty. Their how-to shows you how to make rustic, fragile snowflake decorations out of twigs......
Multi-Purpose Furniture from Tomita Designs
Ken Tomita creates handmade furniture in simple forms that can be easily stacked to make shelving, tables, stools, or benches. Crafted from bamboo, his pieces are based on traditional Japanese forms...
Good Questions: Which White for the Trim?
Top Left: Ball Green Top Right: Clunch Bottom Left: Pointing Bottom right:, Wimbourne White Bep sent in a good question: I want to paint my dining room some sort of white/neutral color that will go we...
Wooden Pallet Christmas Tree & Wreath
Aaron has shared a project with us before - he sent us photos of his terrarium back in June. He's back for the holidays with this impressive 13 foot tree made up of......
Modern Small-Scale Entryway Organizers
Everyone needs a place to drop their keys and sort their mail, even those who lack the luxury of a true entryway. For people who only have a corner of the wall to claim as their entrance, we've roun...
London's Bardello Bar Designed by Sam Buxton
Spotted on a few other design blogs and in the December issue of Metropolis magazine, the Bardello bar in London takes knitting to a site-specific, large scale lounge experience. What we love: that no...
Scavenger: Pair of Room and Board Gigi Chairs for $700
Chicago
In Hinsdale, a pair of Room and Board Gigi slipper chairs in Bezel fabric for $700, a mid-c chandelier, vintage blanc de chine lamp and more. Jump below for links:
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