Strange Closets

I’ve got several deadlines to meet this week, so please forgive this abbreviated Open House.  It’s a sequel of sorts, as I featured Nick and Rebekah’s Michigan farm house back when summer was still groggy but awakening from its winter slumber.

Interior Designer Hilary Bailes and her daughter Margo starred in one of the earliest Open House tours, so I was happy to be invited back recently.  

Change is in the air; that much cannot be denied.  It was especially apparent this week at Dr. Kevin’s Bucktown single family home.   After living in the three story contemporary house for nearly 20 years, the good doctor recently decided that it was time for a change, spurred in part by the end of [...]

They say that a man’s home is his castle, but for most it’s just a figure of speech. For Frank, the owner of a successful west side wire manufacturing company, it’s just a fact of life.

If there’s one thing I learned while spending time with Jim, who is well into his second decade of gutting and converting a Bucktown 2-flat into a single family home, it’s that he’s a very (very) patient man. And while the space is, as it stands, a fantastic interpretation of Japanese Modernism, it’s not quite [...]