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Open House Preview: Blogging “Fine Diving” blogging me blogging her (blogging...
Ah we’re an incestuous bunch we bloggers. Yesterday I was lucky enough to spend a couple of hours hanging out at former Strange Closets guest poster and Fine Diving in Chicago blogger Diana Durkes’...
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Open House: Meet the Durkes
Home means something different to everybody, of course, but there’s something distinct about that particular word vs. others that describe our dwelling: house, condo, apartment, cottage, pad, etc....
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Open House: James and Blue’s Restful Northfield Home
Thanks to Nalani, a Strange Closets reader, for emailing me about her good friends James and Blue. From the curb, the couple’s home, with its brick and siding exterior and prominent garage, looks...
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Garden Tour: Susie’s Secret Garden at Make it Better
Regular readers may remember Wilmette resident Susie Dinges from her Strange Closets Open House, which tells a cautionary tale of making friends with design professionals (Susie hired her friend and...
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Open House: The last days of a Wilmette home
Everybody thought newlyweds Peter and Robin Baugher were crazy when they bought their quirky little Wilmette home for $250,000 more than 20 years ago. But the house was hardly the point, and in 1990,...
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Open House: Heather and Cam’s Blank Palette
Glass mosaic artist Heather Hancock and her husband Cam Balzer bought their house in 2005, but the Evanston single-family was far from Dwell-like when they first saw it. The tiny dated kitchen had...
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Open House: Seth and Amy’s Lake Forest condo
Amy Leafblad’s fiance Seth moved in to her Lake Forest condo just weeks ago, but thanks to the power of good old-fashioned compromise, there is no sign of co-mingling chaos in the two-bedroom, two...
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Open House: JB’s Highland Park Victorian
Last year KitchenLab founder and interior designer Rebekah Zaveloff introduced me to her friend JB, who also happens to own one of Rebekah’s favorite design projects, a stunning nineteenth century,...
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Thom and Bob’s place
The January / February 2011 issue of Chicago Home + Garden arrived last week, and I was excited to see an article I contributed about Thom Wesely and Bob Planing’s Prairie-style Foursquare in...
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Jinx you owe me a coke! Coincidence or design doppleganger?
Top photo: The dining room in my Edgewater Glen apartment. Bottom photo: The family room in my friend JB’s Highland Park home, which I’ve photographed twice, the first time a couple of years ago for a...
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