hot spot: french kiss.
You never realize how important the bedroom is until you don’t have one, or at least, until the one you do have is barely functional after a move to a new city. In order to achieve near-perfect...
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Oct 03, 2011
hot spot: still waters.
Sometimes the best spaces are the simplest ones, and we can’t think of a better example of that in motion than the handsome rotunda in this Chicago home by Jessica Lagrange. Instead of packing...
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Sep 26, 2011
hot spot: work ethics.
Some people do their best work in really structured, orderly settings: sitting at a desk, classical music playing quietly, minimal distractions from the outside world. I am not one of those people....
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Sep 06, 2011
hot spot: open ended.
There are a lot of things we’re going to miss about summer: long swims, sand between our toes, no school zones, strawberry hand pies, but most of all, we’re going to miss outdoor living....
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Aug 22, 2011
hot spot: glam plan.
Unfortunately, we’re no Lulu Powers, and every meal we try our hands at isn’t an automatic gourmet masterpiece (think: chili so hot our lips burned for three days), which is why we...
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Aug 15, 2011
hot spot: dream duo.
Growing up, I was an only child for seven years, and I wanted desperately to not be. Sure, it would’ve been nice to have someone to bake mud pies with and someone with whom to make happy little...
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Aug 08, 2011
hot spot: work it out.
We won’t knock living a healthy, active lifestyle, but waking up early on a Monday morning to run a few miles before heading to the office certainly doesn’t rank very high on our list of...
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Aug 01, 2011
hot spot: history repeating.
Now that the premiere season of one of our favorite guilty pleasures—Million Dollar Decorators—has come to an end, we’re feeling a little out of sorts. Luckily, though, we can still...
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Jul 25, 2011
hot spot: level headed.
You’ve heard it time and time again: It’s what’s on the inside that counts. And while that is true, about 90 percent of the time, this Rancho Santa Fe home makes a good case for...
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Jul 18, 2011
hot spot: hen house.
What came first: the chicken or the chair? That is the question that immediately hatched in my mind when I first spotted this Miami, Florida, dining room by Robert Sidney Brown and Todd Dyer Davis of...
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Jul 13, 2011
hot spot: art beat.
Imagine waking up on the 61st floor of a Chicago high rise, stretching your sleepy arms over your head and looking to your left at an untitled, black and white work by famed artist Donald Sultan. If...
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Jun 27, 2011
hot spot: parisian twist.
Chicago’s famous for its killer architecture. Think: steel and glass and incredible feats of engineering. Sometimes, though, all that minimal modernism puts you in the mood for something a...
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Jun 20, 2011
