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Semi Storage

Semi Storage

What this young couple wanted, what they needed, was storage. Storage and somewhere for guests to sit when they came over. This typical Greektown semi, with a renovated-to sell-open-concept-main floor, had three smallish bedrooms upstairs, and a not really usable basement

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The Perfect Home Office

The Perfect Home Office

The effectiveness of a good home office is the key to the focus and productivity needed to get the work done when summer work hours may be shorter and it seems the whole city is on holiday.

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What’s up with hygge anyway?!

What’s up with hygge anyway?!

Hard to explain and even harder to pronounce, the Danish word 'hygge' (pronounced "hoo-ga", or hue-gah), this Danish expression has no direct English translation, but roughly means a sense of coziness and warmth—Candlelight is hygge (Danes burn more candles per head...

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East End Love

East End Love

I’m an East Yorker. You’re probably going to see a lot of east end love shouting out in this blog ‘casue that’s how this hood is on the gentrification jugger knot.

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