Summer 2009

Features
Common Ground
Common Ground

A dramatic bluff-top site inspired one couple’s desire for a minimalist and airy family home. The result garnered a 2009 Detroit Home Design Award for residential architecture.

Of the Season
Sultry Sounds for Hot Nights
Sultry Sounds for Hot Nights

In Portuguese, bossa nova means “new trend,” and this lovely Brazilian music swept through America like a caressing Rio breeze in the late 1950s and throughout the ’60s.

Recipe
Summer Drinks
Summer Drinks

Sneaky Citrus Punch, Citrus Sangria, Café Habana’s Volcanic Mojito, Winning Tea Punch.

Furnishings
A Garden Plot
A Garden Plot

Kelly Reemtsen's 2008 oil, Pink Waterhose (With White Dress) looks innocuous enough; a woman appears ready to water her flowers. But look at the way she’s clutching the hose, almost as if it’s...

Shop Talk
Stretching the Boundaries of Yoga
Stretching the Boundaries of Yoga

Designers tend to be conceptual, big-picture types. But even given that, pairing yoga with architecture and urban planning seems a stretch, so to speak.

Book Review
Kemble’s Keepers
Kemble’s Keepers

Sought-after interior designer Celerie Kemble has released a coffee-table book attractive enough to grace the sophisticated rooms she creates.

Home Improvement
 Water Torture
 Water Torture

A basement flood can make a homeowner go off the deep end. But if you have a sump pump, there are some precautions you can take.

How-to
Home Eco-nomics
Home Eco-nomics

Three new books offer fresh tips on becoming a clean, green, and energy-lean homeowner.

Letter from the Editor
Invitation to Summer
Invitation to Summer

The fantasy of throwing a party provides its own gratifying entertainment. You compose an ideal guest list with the right mix of personalities, decide on flowers, read hors d’oeuvre recipes, even...

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2009 Detroit Home Design Awards from Hour Media on Vimeo.
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Upcoming Events

2009 Fall Remodeling & Home Design Show
10.09.2009

Come out to the Fall Remodeling and Design Expo, Oct. 9-11 at Rock Financial Showplace, consumers can visit with local contractors, energy specialists and designers who can enlighten shoppers with new information on how the new tax credits can...



Party Pictures
Baker's Summer Solstice
Baker's Summer Solstice

Baker hosted a summer solstice party at its store in Birmingham on June 20.

Honors for Ron Rea
Honors for Ron Rea

On June 9, designer Ron Rea was presented with the Birmingham Community House Community Service Award, which since 1988 has recognized people who, through their careers, make extraordinary...

CCS Student Exhibition Preview
CCS Student Exhibition Preview

On May 15, area art collectors attended the reception/preview for the annual College for Creative Studies Student Exhibition in Detroit.

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