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How to Infuse Your Home with Color
A Chicago woman creates a lively, inviting home using splashes of bright color.
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- Making Memories at a Lake Home
- The Ideal Getaway Cottage
Our senior home editor builds her version of the ideal getaway cottage, filling a small space with handy amenities ...
- A Modern Arts and Crafts Loft
Reviving a building from her past, Anita Kealey of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, creates a modern home and business sp...
- Give Your Home a Colonial Look
Blending period details with modern comforts, a new Colonial-style home conjures the charm of Christmas past to giv...
- A 'Wow' Kitchen and Bath for Baby Boomers
Courageous color and contemporary lines bring a youthful vibe to a kitchen and master bath designed for Baby Boomer...
- Elements of Midwest Home Style
Country, contemporary, rustic and more! We determined the most popular decorating styles to create rooms for each, ...
- Kids' Playrooms
Create a room where your children and their friends will love to gather.
- Relaxed Fit
Who says a new house can't have vintage appeal? Filled with charming architectural details and antiques, one new Mi...
- Chic Chicago Kitchen
When Midwest Living was invited to design a kitchen space for the National Kitchen and Bath Association's Design Id...
- The State of the Home
There's something comforting happening in the home. As life gets faster and more impersonal, Midwesterners seek a p...
- Bold Colors and Budget-Friendly Decor
A young Minnesota couple let their love for Bugs Bunny, bold colors and local history guide their budget-friendly d...
- Ideal Getaway Cottage
Even if a vacation cottage has to remain in your dreams, you can design a retreat feel in your everyday home. Our s...
- At Home with Nell Hill
The Kansas entrepreneur behind Nell Hill's home decor shop offers an intimate look at her approach to design, plus ...
- My Old Kentucky Home
Dace Stubbs bought a 200-year-old cabin to restore, discovering only later that she'd purchased a piece of her fami...
- Style and the City
A former suburbanite finds an energetic life in a riverfront town home in downtown Chicago, but still finds a place...
- Style Then and Now
Colors, textures, fabrics and floor plans are just some of the areas where Midwest homes have changed in the past t...
- Finding Respite in a Remodeling
A Chicago-area woman finds respite from cancer in her home remodeling project and designs with a zest for everyday ...
- An English Country House
Inspired by an English country vacation, a Kansas City family creates a house that makes elegance easygoing.
- Kitchens with Charisma
These family-focused kitchens serve up function, comfort and style.
- Cottage Makeover
A 1930s lake cottage gets a new attitude.
- Island Ideology
Options abound for today's kitchen: specialty storage units, double work zones, homework stations and more. See how...
- City and Country Style
The city home's for daily living, the country one's for summer getaways. Learn how they reflect one family's differ...
- City Style Showhouse - Browncamp Lofts
Downtown living is catching on across the Midwest, and our showhouse loft displays innovative uses of color, light ...
- Home Office
A top-of-the stairs landing morphs into a dynamic home office.
- Illinois Farmhouse
An Illinois couple transforms an outdated country house into a welcoming home designed with a 1950s, down-on-the-fa...
- Imperfect Perfection
Smitten by houses in the English countryside, this Kansas City family was determined to re-create the look in their...
- Natural Cottage Retreat
Even if a vacation cottage has to remain in your dreams, you can design a retreat feel in your everyday home. Our s...
- Peggy Drury House
Chicago-area artist Peggy Drury's greatest canvas may be her home, which displays her colorful influence inside and...
- Three Kitchen Styles
Learn the keys to creating three styles -- cottage, rustic and traditional -- that prove especially popular in Midw...
- Updated Bathrooms
It's a problem faced by homeowners across the Midwest: How to update a bath with limited funds. Frankly, most of us...
- Eclectic Lake Cottage Decorating
Most of us collect items because we like them, not because they all match. This lake cottage's mix of antiques, mod...
