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Do you have stacks and stacks of old magazines with whom you just cannot part? Are you a fashion buff with closets filled with fancy clothes and accessories? If you are, then why not proudly show off your elegant clothes and decorate your home at the same time. Get inspired by fashion and make your home as elegant and stylish as you are. Frame yourfavoriteMagazine Covers Magazine covers can be great source of art and decor. Cut out vintage covers, frame them and arrange them around the house. Stick to one theme to avoid too much color and mess, and hang your new artwork above your bed, dressers or even in the kitchen. Old record covers also make a great artsy decoration, so frame a few of them and immortalize your idols. Another great inspiration for bringing fashion into your home is cutting out fashion photographs from the glossies and displaying them in plain frames. The same thing you can do with ads of big designer clothes, perfumes and makeup. Organize any of these in s...

A beautiful lawn is an eye-catching feature that virtually anyone can appreciate. Its one of the first things visitors notice when they pull up to your property and it says a lot about you, as a home owner. Although it does involve frequent watering, there are a few ways to irrigate your lawn more efficiently and effectively. Here are some water saving irrigation tips for your lawn: Have Your System Audited Talk to your local water provider about conducting an irrigation audit of your system. Some providers will perform this service for free, while others may charge a small fee. If yours does not, you can also look for a certified landscape irrigation auditor in your area. The auditor will generate a report based on the condition of your entire system with recommendations on how to fix or improve it. Some may even suggest an optimal watering schedule for each month of the year. Irrigate in the Mornings Irrigate during the morning hours, whenever possible. Since its cool...

Your college years are over, you have found a job and now it is time to make one of those pivotal decisions start living on your own. The period right after you have finished your studies is the best one for beginning with an independent living. You are still young, which makes it easier for you to get used to living alone and you can enjoy all the benefits of such a living. However, to get to know those benefits, you have to take all the measures to make the process of moving as smooth as possible. Inspect the new place When you are choosing your first roommate-free place, you will have do things that were usually sorted out by several people when you lived with your roommates. So, now you should ask a couple of friends you know you can count or your partner to help you decide what place to take. A single person can oversee so many critical spots and a brain trust will be able to make a thorough inspection of your new place. Always bear in mind that it is going to be you...

There are many different types of commercial seating that you can utilise in your restaurant, caf, or any other commercial business premises. You dont need to stick to the standard table and chairs, and you dont have to have uniformity in every piece of furniture. Booth style seating, utilising banquette seating, allows you to make the most of every inch of space that you have, especially around the edge of the room, and it can be combined with additional seats for the end of the tables. Banquette seating , with storage space underneath, can also be used to store the linen that you arent using, can be made from durable and long-lasting materials, and is available in many different shapes, styles, and designs, therefore ensuring that you can offer attractive and functional seating options to all of your customers and clients. Banquette seating can even prove beneficial for use in break rooms, in the staff kitchen, and is becoming increasingly popular in kitchens and kitchen-...

A colorful patch of wildness in my garden, featuring echoing clumps of Geum Totally Tangerine, coarse foliage of Salvia transylvanica , bearded iris, low orange wallflowers ( Erysimum Coral Glow), and pale foliage of Artemisia stelleriana Silver Brocade. I became a gardener in order to experience nature daily, in order to live in a wilder way. Being wild is the opposite of being isolated. It is an experience of oneness with a vast, complex, diverse, accepting community of living plants and animals. Isolation is sitting motionless in a climate-controlled, artificially lit house, staring at a screen, oblivious to the life being lived around me the spider in the corner, the ants building kingdoms under the patio stones, the dove weaving a nest in the pine tree on the corner, the fox snuggled with her kits in a den down by the river, the desert shrub seedling sinking its roots into the soil of the neighbors horse pasture, the massive 500-year-old oak that was just felled two mi...

Dear Chicago House, I have been dabbling with a needle, white thread and blue fabric . look at the loveliness that has resulted! This type of embroidery is called Sashiko and is a form of decorative reinforcement that originates from Japan.I first came across it on Pinterest where there are loads of patterns it was all I needed to get going with my own ideas. I am not sure what I am going to to with these 4 squares yet, but they are very relaxing to make! P.S. Are you following me on Facebook or Pinterest? Posted in Craft Projects, Decorative Accents, Home Decor, Sewing

Hello! Its all change over at Creative in Chicago. I have given the blog a massive shake up with a new look and moved from Blogger to self hosted WordPress. After writing for over five years I am abandoning my Dear Chicago House intro as it doesnt make nearly as much sense as when I started this blog and was writing to my sad 1970s Chicago house. But enough waffle! I thought Id share with you today when my creative magic happens my wonderful home office. This room has fantastic light with a vaulted ceiling and lots of space to spread out and make a mess. By day it is a web and graphic design studio for my company Indigo Image and works very well for client meetings. But when business hours are over I can fling open my artsy closet and break out the paints, paper, hot glue gun, fabric scraps or whatever takes my fancy I will let you into a secret I did tidy up this closet ready for its closeup! The space has come a long way from its brown days and I hav...