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Style – Always Something New

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Toms Price Home.

I like to think of style as eternal spring — the process of new growth, of starting fresh. There’s always something just under the surface waiting to push its way toward the sun.


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A Giant in Black & White

Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Toms Price Home.

Photography as decorative art has been popular for a while. Black and white images from Big Sur to the Eiffel Tower have been available for years now; but as I opened our latest shipment of artwork a new icon began to emerge from the packaging: Chicago.


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My Kind of Town

Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Toms Price Home.

Our world-class city makes for world-class pictures, and not just the skyline with its famous Sears Tower and Hancock Center. No other city can boast the swath of green space along our beautiful lakefront, protected as it is from shipping docks and heavy industry (thank you, Mr. Burnham), or the gleaming museum campus surrounded by [ read more… ]


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Where We Live

Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Toms Price Home.

Chicago is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Nice to see it getting its due.


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Tax Time

Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Toms Price Home.

It’s coming up on tax time again, time for all of us right-brainers to give thanks that there are people for that. I myself am not one of them. If I ever possessed an aptitude for an absolute science of any kind, it has long since been erased by years of subjective analysis doing visual [ read more… ]


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We Have People for That

Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Toms Price Home.

Over the years it has dawned on me that the more specialized we become in our own particular disciplines, the greater the gulfs in understanding that begin to separate us. For me and my design colleagues, it is immediately apparent what height to hang a picture, what size upholstery is appropriate or what color will [ read more… ]


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Need a Professional?

Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Toms Price Home.

What a complex world it is where each of us can exist in a professional sub-culture with its own purpose, its own customs, even its own vocabulary. When it comes time to trusting your health, your retirement, your taxes, or your home to a professional — well, thank goodness there are people for that. Here [ read more… ]


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Wearin' of the Green

Posted on March 13th, 2008 by Toms Price Home.

Here are a few more green delights.


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Wearin' of the Green

Posted on March 13th, 2008 by Toms Price Home.

Green, in its many moods, is a wonderful color for decorating. These photos from Century, Hickory White and Stickley show a few ways your home can wear it well.


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Moving Forward

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Toms Price Home.

Well, we’re at it again — circular saws are buzzing, hammers are swinging and soon the smell of fresh paint will be wafting from our newest construction project here at the Wheaton store. It can be a disruptive process, this ongoing effort to stay updated and current; and as we move and then move again [ read more… ]


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