Author: caremorency

This is the first year in a long time that we will not be visiting any of the cool places featured during Chicago Architecture Center’s annual Open House Chicago. But forgive — we have a good reason. We’ve seen so much already! Like the Center’s tours, the most popular sites during Open House tend to […]

According to Architectural Digest (and many other news sources that don’t come directly to my e-mail inbox) Benjamin Moore has named a greenish-beigeish Metropolitan as its 2019 color of the year. To me, Metro (we’re on a nickname basis) looks like I wanted Celadon but went way too conservative, the light in my place fooling […]

I was always under the impression that the green revolution would be big and shiny, tall and turbine-y. We would know we had tipped from fossil to renewable fuels when white, three-bladed windmills lined the interstates throughout the middle of the country and Phoenix was able to generate enough solar energy to power Las Vegas. […]