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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.

• Midwest Style  

  Take a room-by-room tour of a home that incorporates practical comfort, style and charm throughout.

• 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...