Simulated wind, real relaxation
Chimes doing a sultry dance, tinkling to the rush of a hot breath of summer--ah, the sights and sounds of the season. Wind chimes doing their thing out back, and...
Home > Reviews
All Stories
From French designers, a case of sibling revelry
Some of today's hippest, hottest and youngest designers come in brotherly pairs. There's Fernando and Humberto Campana of Brazil. There's Christopher and Daniel Streng of Sheboygan Falls, Wis., and Oak...
With a little help from the ‘Friends’
The cast of the NBC sitcom "Friends" teamed up with La-Z-Boy to create six recliners that are more than just characters. All of the chairs will be up for bid...
New device for home use could save lives in a heart beat
Defibrillators are big news in Illinois these days. A bill in the Illinois General Assembly would require an automated external defibrillator in every physical fitness facility in the state. It...
Separating the fridge facts from the fridge fiction
OK, maybe we just shouldn't know this about one another. But three out of every four people you will meet today probably haven't given their refrigerator a good cleaning out...
March gladness
The problem with springtime in Chicago is that there is no guarantee it will show up--or stick around. Nonetheless, weather cannot derail hope. Nor can it stop the shower of...
Starting over ? Part 2: Getting off the ground
The fact that two sound-minded people live year-round on a boat in Chicago--with no other home to call their own and in spite of whatever precipitation the skies throw at...
Sticky fingers could pay off
It was one of those great post-World War II inventions in plastic that American homemakers gobbled up. For lining kitchen cupboards, dressing up pretty little boxes, covering shelves and making...
High-style projects you might do yourself
In the spirit of back-to-school, we offer this reading list for house and home fanatics. "Terence Conran's House & Garden Design Projects" Consultant editors: John McGowan and Roger DuBern Sterling...
Home and bunker
Like millions of people across the world at 9:02:54 a.m. EDT on that doomed Tuesday, Fabian and Wendy Friedland watched with horror as a second silver jetliner smashed into the...