Editorial Features

DOMESTICA
Our upfront section featuring shopping, products, ideas, and trends

Regular features in this section include:

Close Call. Similar looks in two different price ranges. How to get the look for less.
Goods. The best in home furnishings and accessories. We follow the national trends and show you where to get the looks locally.
News. The latest stores, showrooms, lines, design businesses, and products.
Destination. A shopping tour to a hot local destination. In the past, we’ve covered Fulton Market, Andersonville, West Town, and the Harbor Country area of Michigan in Spring 2006.

ROOM SERVICE
Ideas in Practice

Regular features in this section include:

Ask The Experts. Puts local design sources and experts in the hot seat. Chicago’s design gurus will explain the how-to’s of the home. Topics include buying art, hiring a designer, finding an architect, working with a contractor, selecting a countertop, arranging objects on a mantle, and getting things fixed.
The Insider. An interview with a local design expert will help to answer our readers’ most frequently asked design questions. Local designers will impart their style savvy and provide different solutions to common decorating and design problems.
Get the Look. One great room, deconstructed. We show options for the major pieces that make this room great.
Tricks of the Trade. How to shop for a lampshade, arrange flowers, make your bed, and more: local experts show us their secrets.
Transformation. Before, after, and everything in between: a local design professional explains how they turned shabby into fabulous.
Elements of Surprise. Sometimes a beautiful object calls out to us, but we can’t quite hear what it’s saying. We’d love to ask an interior designer: What would you do with this?
The Dirt. A year-round guide to landscaping, from the planning to planting.
Open House. From adding special touches at family dinners to making overnight guests feel right at home, this section will be the guide to entertaining in style.

SPACES
Our feature well showcases gorgeous homes, new products, gardens, and architecture. In addition to highlighting some of the city’s and suburbs’ most fabulous interiors, we also provide, where applicable, floor plans, before shots, resource lists, and other information to help readers get the most from these highly coveted looks.

RESOURCES
Our comprehensive listings section features hundreds of area providers of design goods and services. These independent listings, reported and written by our staff, can be referred to again and again as readers work on their homes.

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