Strange Closets

This week’s Open House is particularly timely, as owners Dave and Kristin Gonnella, whose Ravenswood Manor bungalow sits scenically beside the Chicago River, spent a tense couple of days last week watching the river rise outside their home while hearing news reports about the extensive flooding in nearby Albany Park. Luckily their home, which they [...]

Pat was kind enough to open her home for the first “Open House” (I guess it helps that she’s my mom and I grew up there). But it’s only recently that I’ve really come to appreciate the house and her style as something other than “home.”