Barbara B. Buchholz

Four Chicago celebrities are about to share their fantasies of how a table should look, with a little help from area stores--and all for a worthy cause--Art Resources in Teaching's...

April's fluctuating spring temperatures usually signal the return of our fine feathered friends who wintered in sunnier climcs. To celebrate their arrival and raise money for a worthy cause, 35...

Woodmere China Inc., based in New Castle, Pa., has produced a new china pattern called The Tree of Life for use during the Jewish holidays, including Passover which begins at...

Whether a building does or doesn't make special assessments depends on its philosophy and sometimes its form of ownership. Cooperative apartments seem to favor special assessments because the shareholders can...

The current batch of plaid fabrics for the home barely resembles the red, green and black tartans once popular for upholstering seating in men's clubs and basement recreation rooms. And...

Daryl Michaels is used to solving problems for homeowners. But it wasn't until his elderly grandmother slipped and fell in her bathtub that he realized he needed to add a...

Authentic Shaker furniture commands thousands of dollars at antique stores and auctions-if you can find the spare chairs, tables, desks, chests and tall case clocks crafted in religious communes after...

Brad and Jill Lenhart's timing for rhyming evolved into a game of the same. The Lenharts, a Chicago brother-and- sister duo, each wanted a change in their respective advertising and...

Some people engage in spring cleaning. Bobbye Cochran undertook some major fall cleaning. After she got rid of the boxes in the storage space of her 1 1/2 year-old store,...

The publishers of St. Charles-based Country Sampler magazine have opened three Country Sampler stores in the Chicago area that feature thousands of hand- made articles, ranging in price from $2...