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15 Beautiful Wallpaper Patterns You’re Going to Want for Your Home
The wallpaper trend is still going strong. Wallpaper is a great way to add a bold focal point or subtle texture to a room. From oversized florals to playful toiles to mod geometrics — here are some...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About Buying and Selling a Home During the Holidays
Buying and selling a home is stressful any time of year. Throw in the frenzy of the holiday season and things suddenly get even more complicated. Don’t worry! Expert brokers Lisa Schulkin of...
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Create the Perfect Home Wine Cellar
Not just a place to store vino, the right wine cellar can be a stunning focal point in your home as well as a spot to entertain. They say the kitchen is the heart of the home, but if you’re passionate...
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New in Town: Home Goods Store Rejuvenation Open in Chicago
Brighten up your home in the midst of winter with something new from Rejuvenation, a lighting and house parts general store that opened in Lincoln Park Nov. 21. With new and vintage items ranging from...
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Give Yourself an Early Holiday Present: Take Care of These Important Home...
The cold temps and snow have officially arrived, but there is still time to get a few of those nagging preventative maintenance items taken care of before you regret it. Brutal precipitation and cold...
View ArticleWant to Update Your Kitchen? Focus on These 4 Components
Want to get a great return on investment (ROI) with your next home renovation? If you’re looking to update a space, odds are you’re thinking about how much you have to spend and how much you will get...
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School Days: Get Out the Door Faster With This Organization Trick
It’s amazing how being late or on time can set the tone that rules the day. Telling everyone to hurry and scolding them because they can’t find their shoes or don’t know where they set their homework...
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On the Market: A Look Inside a Gorgeous Winnetka Home
Some houses have a bit of everything: plenty of room, updated appliances, great outdoor spaces and ideal location. For the past 10 years, Make It Better Associate Publisher Michelle Morris has called...
View ArticleHome Fires Soared in December: What You Need to Know and How the Red Cross...
The most common disaster the American Red Cross responds to is not hurricanes or tornadoes — it’s home fires. Home fires are extraordinarily destructive, and often happen to already vulnerable...
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4 Generations of Thalmanns Celebrate 100 Years of Chalet Nursery
An industrious young man named Lawrence J. Thalmann founded a landscape business on Chicago’s North Shore in 1917 with nothing more than a wheelbarrow, shovel and a dream. Through perspiration,...
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The Hottest Rug Trends for Your Home
Hard surface flooring, especially hardwood or authentic hardwood lookalikes, are dominating main living areas in single family homes, condos and apartments all over the country. Given this widespread...
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Organizing Tips for a Multi-Tasking and Eco-Friendly Living Room
The verdict is in and big, sprawling houses are out — at least if you want to be energy efficient, that is. The Pew Research Center reports that while we’ve made some considerable energy gains since...
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How to Decide Whether to Remodel Your Home or Build New
Often clients ask us to visit several homes to consider whether it makes more sense to remodel or tear-down the existing home. As an expert in designing, building and remodeling homes, we can properly...
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Your New Home: Choosing Whether to Go Custom or Buy Existing
When you consider the amount of time you spend at home, you should not compromise on having something that is well-designed and well-built. Your home is the venue for family traditions, where memories...
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Creating Homes That Are Built for a Lifetime
Builders often brag that they build a quality home. Unfortunately, most homeowners are unable to measure quality. Here are some questions to ask a builder to determine their level of quality: Do you...
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Choosing the Right Team for Your Home Project
There is a riddle that goes something like this: There are only two barbers to choose from and there are no other barbers located within 100 miles. Barber Bob has a bad haircut and his shop has dirty...
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Ellen DeGeneres Home Collection Launches in Chicago Exclusively at Walter E....
Ellen DeGeneres fans (who isn’t a fan of hers?!), get excited: Thomasville launched two home collections in collaboration with the superstar’s design line, ED Ellen DeGeneres, and Walter E. Smithe...
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Neat Method: 5 Tips for an Organized Home
Ashley Murphy and Molly Graves whip your house into organizational shape so you can focus on the more important things: peace, calm, and being with your family. Moving — for those of us who enjoy both...
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Garden Landscaping: Great Plants for Pollinators
Imagine an all-you-can-eat buffet that offers only meat. No veggies. No fruit. Not even water. Would you go? Probably not. This is how pollinators see your landscape, particularly if it appeals to only...
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‘Sixteen Candles’ Home on the Market in Evanston
The iconic home from the classic coming-of-age film “Sixteen Candles” is on the market. @properties, the largest independent real estate brokerage firm in Illinois, is listing the Evanston home, which...
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