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Museum of Science and Industry debuts revamped Smart Home
On the surface, the design elements of The Museum of Science and Industry's Smart Home exhibit are urban retro chic, with sleek industrial lin…
A beautiful garden starts now: Memorial Day means gardening for many
Get out the shovel and trowels — it's Memorial Day weekend and that means gardening for many. Spend a bit more time getting your garden off to…
Plastics get playful
Next time you're having a backyard barbecue or going mod with some new furniture, thank science.
May 24, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
Upbeat spring decor to revive our interiors
In home decor, there's just something about spring. When life's renewing itself outdoors, we feel the urge to revive our interiors, too.
May 16, 2012 8:00 pm PhotosPhotos
At Home: This is not your grandma's linen
Though I knew better, I couldn’t wait to use the pretty new table linens that arrived in that day’s mail. “Made for every day,” the website as…
Silver dollar plant can pay off in beauty
Whoever said that money doesn't grow on trees was right. It grows on a small, bushy plant.
Better than ever: Orchids are now a favorite and accessible bloom with a long-lasting bonus
Debbie Lilly, owner of Debbie's Designs Floral in Crown Point, remembers the days when this week meant a table loaded with orchid corsages, st…
May 10, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
Coexist in style with the sports gear in your home
Can we get through the spring and summer sports seasons without our homes ending up in total disarray?
May 09, 2012 6:30 pm PhotosPhotos
The lake house: A Nantucket-style home full of charm
"When you're standing at the front door, your eyes are drawn through the house to the lake," says architect Jeff Harting, standing in demonstr…
May 03, 2012 12:00 pm PhotosPhotos
Spring's hot color for homes? Tangerine Tango
Bold, dramatic and invigorating, Tangerine Tango is dancing its way into home decor trends in 2012 with a punch of reddish-orange panache.
May 02, 2012 7:00 pm PhotosPhotos
Living large in a small space
Small may be in when it comes to homes, but that doesn't mean it's easy to decorate.
May 02, 2012 6:30 pm PhotosPhotos
Making a splash: Kitchen and bath trends customized to fit the family
Michelle Bagull of Schererville, wonders if the name for the traditional rooms known today as "the kitchen" and "the bathroom" will one day change.
May 02, 2012 5:30 pm PhotosPhotos
Make Every Day a Vacation Day
You can getaway anytime when you extend the living area of your home and transform your backyard into a relaxing outdoor retreat.
Go green with rain barrels in your garden
Robin Blair does what she can to help her plants thrive. She plants them in good soil and keeps the weeds away. She also waters them regularly…
Some shrubs provide both beauty and tasty berries
So planting fever has grabbed you, and you're heading out to your favorite nursery or thumbing through a catalog to see what's available in shrubs.
Butterfly gardening provides a beneficial and fun family project
For a spring project that can get your family working and learning together — and also help some beautiful insects — try a backyard butterfly garden.
World of treasures on display at International Antiques Fair
On April 27-30, dealers of furniture, textiles, silver, sculpture, Folk Art, 20th-century design and decorative arts — as well as prints, maps…
April 25, 2012 6:00 pm PhotosPhotos
May June 2012 Shore magazine's letter from the editor
Do you remember how traveling used to be? Months, sometimes years, went into planning a big family trip back to Ireland to see where our ances…
Lenny Kravitz adds designer to his creative credentials
Lenny Kravitz has taken a childhood compunction to decorate his bedroom and turned it into another creative endeavor.
Home in a home as families live together longer
It's a home within a home — and it could be coming soon to a home near you.
Illiana Garden Pond Society hosts upcoming Waterscape Weekend
For all of the high-end accoutrements and little extravagances that have worked their way into everyday home landscaping discussions in recent…
April 19, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
Kill clutter with three quick projects
Spring is a great time to shake off that winter sluggishness and free yourself from clutter.
April 19, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
IKEA to sell TVs integrated in its furniture
Already the one-stop shop for smart and compact home furnishings, IKEA has launched yet another product for your living room: the IKEA TV.
Adventures in Everyday Living: Shorelines, Thursday, April 19th
The Benton Harbor Cornerstone Chamber of Commerce marks a milestone with an exclusive party and Designer Bret Bortner's FORM exhibition is ope…
Repurpose your closets into fun and functional spaces
Closets may be a necessity for families with young children. But once the kids have grown up and moved out, bedrooms and closets can be repurp…
Blooming interest: the 12th Annual Antiques & Garden Fair at the Chicago Botanic Garden
If you looked around the neighborhood a few weeks back during our unsettling but glorious mid-March warm spell, you likely saw a number of eag…
April 11, 2012 6:00 pm PhotosPhotos
Small garden 'rooms' offer variety of pleasures
Now's the perfect time for dreaming about your spring and summer garden. Gather up your seed and garden catalogs, take some notes, visit a gar…
April 04, 2012 7:00 pm PhotosPhotos
Prepare your trees for thunderstorm season
With the warmer spring weather comes an increased number of thunderstorms.
Plants travel well this time of year
People often stare in disbelief when I suggest buying a plant from a nursery thousands of miles away. Surely no plant could survive such a journey!
Cleaning up meshes: what to know about screen care
For many of us, spring cleaning includes washing winter dirt and debris off of windows and window screens. Paying extra attention to screens n…
Learning to read nature's cues can help a gardener
Phenology is the science of appearances, or knowing which plants can tell you when to start weeding, planting, fighting insects or tackling an…
Putting the 'kitsch' back in your kitchen
Kitchens have become so serious. All that granite, dark wood and stainless steel. The heart of the home these days is more like a sleek and se…
March 28, 2012 5:00 pm PhotosPhotos
The Anatomy of a Skyscraper: Author Kate Ascher explains the science behind the world's tallest structures
Ever wonder what happens when lightning strikes a tall building? What about how elevators travel so rapidly in a commercial building versus a …
A FINE MESS: HGTV addiction leads to lofty home improvement ideas
At the end of 2011, Time magazine published a list of the twenty-five people they felt were to blame for the worldwide financial crisis. I agr…
Ceramics strong this spring
Ceramics are always a great supporting player on the home décor stage, but this season they're grabbing more of the spotlight.
March 21, 2012 8:45 pm PhotosPhotos
Celebrating the beauty of Brazil at Macy's annual spring flower show
The scents, sounds and beauty of Brazil are on display for two weeks starting this Sunday when Macy's Flower Show presents "Brasil: Gardens in…
March 21, 2012 7:00 pm PhotosPhotos
Fabulous features: These homeowners have an eye for the appeal
In every home, the design feature that captures or creates a mood is the one people talk about. That's when the homeowner's heart and soul are…
March 19, 2012 3:39 pm PhotosPhotos
Hidden Architectural Gems
Every city in the world boasts its architectural wonders, but often the lesser-known buildings get short shrift. Our region is filled with wor…
March 19, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
LAST RESORT: My Elevator
My husband and I are in the sandwich generation—that is, people of a certain age who have children and parents who potentially could become de…
Doghouse designed by Frank Lloyd Wright rebuilt for film
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The Fallingwater home in southwestern Pennsylvania. But a child's doghouse?
March 18, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
LaPorte's Firefly Farm offers a haven of peace and the old west
On 9/11, family members instinctively gathered at Firefly Farm, the Western-style compound of John Leinweber and Jim Laughlin, seeking the sec…
March 17, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
SHAW THOUGHTS: The bucolic view of an Olmsted landscape
The house is utilitarian, not fancy. Concrete block and boxy, circa 1960, on a lovely plot of dune grass between the main road that winds thro…
Emily Carlson restores stained glass to its original beauty
The stained glass window laid out on the workbench in Emily Carlson's studio looks like a wreck.
March 15, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
Less is more in window treatments
With Daylight Savings and springtime weather upon us, we're ready to open the windows and let the sun shine in. As breezes set curtains flutte…
March 14, 2012 8:30 pm PhotosPhotos
Shore magazine's shopping directory
From clothing to home décor to antiques, the fantastic shops and boutiques in the Shore area have something for everyone on your list. For a c…
Frank Lloyd Wright blueprints and land in Ludington are for sale decades after the job was commissioned
Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1940s designed a home to be nestled amid the sandy swales of Ludington's Lake Michigan shoreline. Beth Dilley, who i…
Inside the Usonian Home
Frank Lloyd Wright wanted to create a new architecture that, according to the foundation named after him, "reflected the American democratic e…
Going on vacation? Hire a sitter for your garden
Gardeners don't have to remain housebound during the vacation season just because their edibles and flowers need tending. Find a sitter to han…
March 08, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
Plant Rx: Wash well behind the leaves
For centuries, savvy gardeners used soap sprays to combat bugs.
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