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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
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.
(Not So New) Redesign
I hear it a lot , “We moved in, did what needed to be taken care of, had a couple of kids….. years later we realized we never got around to decorating. This place is not us.”
Pinterest Top Ten Home Trends For 2017
Starting with our homes we can build the foundation, our safe place, to show 2017 what we are made of, and that we are not going to take 2016 lay down.
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...
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.