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5 Current Color Combos
Chicago Tribune Home & Garden 07.27.08

The talented Stephen Drucker (who we had the pleasure of meeting when we were in NY in the Spring) recently hosted a House Beautiful Color Institute at the Merchandise Mart and the Tribune covered it....

Planet Green's Annabelle Gurwitch at Home
Chicago Tribune Home & Garden 06.29.08

Annabelle Gurwitch is one of the faces of the Planet Green channel - she did the Tribune's q&a session on her home life this past weekend. Here are a few good bits: ...

Grant Achatz of Alinea: Home Life Q&A
Tribune Home & Garden 06.15.08

This week, the Tribune Home & Garden section featured Chef Grant Achatz of Chicago's amazing Alinea restaurant in their Snoop Patrol questionnaire. The recent James Beard award winner is living simply...

Workplace Design Inspirations for the Home
Chicago Tribune 06.08.08

This week in the Chicago Tribune Home & Garden section, a piece on interesting, inspiring workplaces in Chicago, with plenty of style that translates to the home. We grabbed some of our favorite photo...

Decor Sources for Carrie's New Apartment
Chicago Tribune 06.01.08

We know that many AT-ers were fans of Carrie's old apartment - we heard that it got a big makeover in the film via the Chicago Tribune, which was on the SATC bandwagon this week. In a quick interview ...

Tipping the Design Balance in Milan
Chicago Tribune Home & Garden 04.27.08

Karen Klages reports from the annual Salone Internazionale Del Mobile in Milan that the shift toward "soft glam" has occurred. She reports that the curves, texture, pattern and color that have been mo...

0 Furniture + 4 Weeks + 5k Budget = Kevin's Condo
Chicago Tribune

The equation for the Tribune reporter Kevin Tang was a pretty good one - he agreed to get rid of all his old furnishings when he moved into his new (first!) home, an Edgewater condo. In exchange he'd ...

Chicago Tribune Home & Garden Roundup: Wall Decor DIY's

Lots of good stuff from the Tribune this week - a bunch of ideas for DIY projects for wall decor ; hanging tips, creative ideas and even a how to video that shows you how to create a large scale deco...

Chicago Tribune Home & Garden Roundup: 01.20.08

This past Sunday, Apartment Therapy: Chicago was happy to be part of The Tribune Home & Garden section. Cindy Dampier asked us to participate in a roundup of items called New Year, New View, filled w...

Chicago Tribune Home & Garden Roundup: 01.06.08

The Tribune is into finding peace at home in 2008. Two articles on the subject from this week: Making Peace at Home talks to designers on how to do just that and The Beauty of White Space is a look at...

Chicago Tribune Home & Garden Roundup: 12.16.07

Girl Gone Wild is the title of this week's article about Erin Healy. She lives in Wilmette's "Pink House"...a 100 year old farmhouse painted an unusual hue and filled with "cowboy chic". It's all ab...

Chicago Tribune Home & Garden Roundup: 12.09.07

Clinton Kelly (of What Not To Wear) moved into a 1969 fixer up in Connecticut. The photo above is most definitely an after - before there was "knotty pine ceilings and dingy linoleum". He likes the re...

Chicago Home & Garden Roundup: 12.02.07

Annie Selkie talks about her work and does a q&a on design, lifestyle and home life. Photo above is from a recent project she completed; designing a NYC apartment featured in Country Living. Links ...

Home & Garden Roundup: 11.25.07

A classic gift guide with three price points: The Three Ways of Christmas breaks it down into "Under $25", "Under $100" and "Sky's the Limit". Six local design experts make their picks for the best gi...

Home & Garden Roundup: 11.18.07

The owner of Sepia, Emmanuel Nony lives just up the street from the new restaurant. He does the Snoop Patrol questionnaire about his West Loop one bedroom apartment, including his most luxurious posse...

Home & Garden Roundup: 11.11.07

Limited edition beach towels from the Works on Whatever Series 2008 are featured on the H&G To-Do List. The towels will feature artwork from Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton and Kehinde Wi...

Home and Garden Roundup: 11.04.07

The Art of the Bargain is all about how to successfully shop flea markets, antique shows and garage sales. The reporter attended the Brimfield Antique show with expert Bruce Littlefield, author of "G...

Home and Garden Roundup: 10.14.07

Shopping with the pros lets us know what local buyers (Toms-Price, Walter E. Smithe, Domicile, Macy's and Darvin) picked up at the big furniture show, High Point, this October. It covers the pieces ...

Home and Garden Roundup: 09.23.07

Hoop Dreams is Barbara Mahany's "DIY Daredevil" entry, the latest in a series where H&G staffers give a class a go and share the details. Barbara took an embroidery class at The Needle Shop in Buckt...

Home and Garden Roundup: 09.16.07

5 Things... to know about spiders indoors is a quick list to help ease the stress that these creatures can cause. We're ok with spiders, but for those with a fear we think reading this certainly cou...

Home & Garden Roundup: 09.09.07

Six Degrees of Renovation is one of the best features we've seen from H&G. Frustratingly, none of the photos and only part of the article are online, but we'll try to capture the good ideas presented ...

Home and Garden Roundup: 09.02.07

Drier and Wiser is Karen Klages "do's, don't's and did-you-know's" about home floods, inspired by the recent storms. Do: have one landline phone in the house, get a car charger for your cell, and co...

Home and Garden Roundup: 08.12.07

Go green for entertaining posed a challenge: give a party, set a table, and decorate the space in a way that is "sustainable, doable and attractive". Our favorite idea from the article was the firs...

Home and Garden Roundup: 08.05.07

The lead story in H&G this week was As Seen on TV about the Chicago style interiors in the sitcom My Boys. The show is about a sports writer living in Chicago and H&G spoke with both the set designe...

Home and Garden Roundup: 07.29.07

Midnight in the Garden of Good is Karen Klages' story about photographer Julie Collins and her work. A librarian by day, she does her digital photographs of plant life from her yard on a flat bed sc...