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Week of 03/29/13

Here Are Alison Victoria's Secret Obsessions

Here Are Alison Victoria's Secret Obsessions

The Chicago-based interior designer and 'Kitchen Crashers' star is hosting a sale on the vintage furniture shopping site V&M this weekend.

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Week of 03/29/13

Rogers Park Gets Its Own Pop-up Art Show

Rogers Park Gets Its Own Pop-up Art Show

Swing by Sol Café this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m to check out the debut exhibit.

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Week of 03/28/13

Show Your Stairs a Little Love

Show Your Stairs a Little Love

Pot & Kettle Studios' lovely vinyl decals are just the lift your overworked, under-decorated staircase needs.

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Week of 03/27/13

Live with Farm Animals, Minus the Smell

Live with Farm Animals, Minus the Smell

These clever storage units will give you the simple (and organized) life you've always dreamed of.

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Week of 03/26/13

Bid on Leslie Hindman's Excellent, Affordable Antiques Tomorrow

Bid on Leslie Hindman's Excellent, Affordable Antiques Tomorrow

Yes—affordable. The dealer's first Marketplace auction starts at its new space on March 27 and 28.

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Week of 03/25/13

How To Make an Air Plant Thrive for Years

How To Make an Air Plant Thrive for Years

Take some advice on air plant care from Acorn Design Source's Hugh Sollo, a guy with a ton of experience raising these exotic specimens.

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Week of 03/22/13

Find Great Vintage Décor at Randolph Street Market This Weekend

Find Great Vintage Décor at Randolph Street Market This Weekend

The last indoor market of the season has a spring fling theme—don't forget your bonnet.

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Week of 03/22/13

Find Some Vintage Ad Posters Worthy of ‘Mad Men’ This Weekend

Find Some Vintage Ad Posters Worthy of ‘Mad Men’ This Weekend

See how beautiful an advertisement can be as 15 vendors bring over 5,000 original works to the International Vintage Poster fair this weekend.

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Week of 03/22/13

Set Your Passover Table with a $3,600 Seder Plate

Set Your Passover Table with a $3,600 Seder Plate

Doesn’t your ritual egg, parsley, and shank bone deserver better than the plate you’ve been using since 1983?

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Week of 03/21/13

Coyle & Herr Teams Up With One Kings Lane

Coyle & Herr Teams Up With One Kings Lane

They're not just in Bridgeport anymore—this local antique store has joined the online tag sale scene.

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ABOUT THIS BLOG

Gina Bazer and Alice Oglethorpe

Domestica is an online extension of the inspiration, advice, and scoop that the Chicago Home + Garden minimag provides four times a year inside Chicago magazine. Here, Chicago magazine style and Home + Garden editor Gina Bazer (left) and contributing blogger Alice Oglethorpe (right), along with guest bloggers, dish on home design trends, discuss design obsessions and dilemmas, share spaces they love, and bring you the latest local design news, from sales to events.

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Photograph: (Bazer) Anna Knott

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