2008 Best of the Good Life

Everybody wants to live the good life. But how? Well you could start by reading through the results of our third annual “Best Of The Good Life” survey.

The World's Greatest Metro Detroit Holiday Gift Guide

Holiday shopping can be stressful when you don’t know where to go or what to get. That’s where Detroit Home’s holiday gift guide comes in.

Collection Agency

Dennis and Bonnie Vankeersblick collect almost everything. Here’s how it happened.

Aric Karpinski

The Amazing  Technicolor Dream House

Graphic designer John Latin gives a formerly bland Royal Oak ranch a spin on the color wheel.

Taryn Bickley

Home is Where the Horse is

Gary Wasserman is a man of the world but his roots are planted in Metamora’s horse country.

Julie Yolles

Pontiac

Pontiac is going green. Habitat for Humanity, Chrysler Financial, and Gontina Building and Design joined forces to build the area’s first affordable home that meets the U.S. Green Building...

Fun House

Seasonal affective disorder is a fancy name for the winter blues. In other words, winter is depressing and everyone’s at risk. But before you go burying your head in a snow bank, consider giving...

Neoclassical

Neoclassical homes are most easily distinguished by their full-height porch and classical columns, symmetrically balanced windows, and centered door.

Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles in 1904. After graduating from high school, he served an apprenticeship under Gutzon Borglum — the sculptor who oversaw the creation of Mount Rushmore.

Northwest Ferndale

Have you ever found yourself wishing there were just a few more streets in Pleasant Ridge? Well, we did. So we ventured south into Ferndale and found a pocket of perfectly pleasant living just...

Five Questions with … Mary Liz Curtin

Though Clawson’s Leon & Lulu is owned by a husband-and-wife team, their names are not Leon and Lulu. Instead, owners Mary Liz Curtin and Stephen Scannell named the store after the family pets.

UGallery.com

If you gotta have art, you’re gonna need money. But with www.ugallery.com you’ll need a lot less.

The Culture Club

In Detroit, you don’t have to wish upon a star. Instead, you can whisper your wish to the bark of the ginkgo tree Yoko Ono planted downtown in 2000.

The Best of the Rejected Best of Categories

This year, for our annual “Best of the Good Life” readers survey, we decided to expand the number and range of the included categories. Of course, throughout the process, a number of categories...

Aric Karpinski