Take a drive through Jefferson Park and it’s Chicago bungalows as far as the eye can see. Gentrification has yet to reach this neighborhood on the Northwest Side. A number of police officers and ...

No one wants to live in a blank box. While the idea may be appealing during a construction phase, the reality of living in a space without any architectural features can quickly turn dull. Certain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though Huston’s client leaned into 19th-century grandeur, he wouldn’t have been wrong to reach even farther back—as in ancient ...

Q: I made the mistake of walking through several million-dollar homes one afternoon and saw a feature that I want to install in my own home: a coffered ceiling. I have a living area that I would like ...

Look up – chances are, what you see is a flat expanse of white paint and nothing else. It's a shame, because the ceiling is the one surface in the home that most of us never think about, even though ...

Those details turn plain ceilings into eye-popping attention-getters with rounded, vaulted, coffered and beamed accents, highlighted by scalloped trim, contrasting paint colors and strategically ...

Here’s a coffered ceiling disclaimer: They may cause an overwhelming desire to dress in formalwear—even for a night in. Interior designer Joyce Huston of Decorilla recalls a coffered ceiling ...