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2 weeks ago | 
muckrack.com | Jill Waage
Tucked in a historic Chicago high-rise, this cozy kitchen for a family of five may be shy on square footage, but it’s not bashful about color. Bright blue and yellow appear throughout the apartment. “The kitchen is actually a palette cleanser” against more vibrant rooms, says designer Jasmin Reese.
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2 weeks ago | 
muckrack.com | Jill Waage
My relationship with color and pattern is complicated. In my line of work, I’ve come to appreciate a range of design styles, palettes, and schemes. Each home is an opportunity to see new combinations that the homeowner or family feel are livable and beautiful for them. This summer issue features a slate of homes with beautiful and livable color and pattern.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
muckrack.com | Jill Waage
Use of the phrase “design trend” provokes spirited conversations in our office. While it is a helpful and casual catchphrase, the team at Traditional Home tries to eschew it. Rather than chase fleeting notions, we aim for timelessness and fresh approaches to the classics as core investments in a home’s design. At the same time, design is constantly moving. Palettes shift in temperature, furniture profiles change shape, and new generations deem an element chic rather than dated.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
muckrack.com | Jill Waage
Putting together this winter issue is one of my favorite things to do as an editor. It’s a favorite pursuit of mine because this is such a favorite issue of yours. And I understand why. I’ve always loved the spirit of the holidays and my own family celebrations and traditions. Since I was a teenager, though, I also lived the holidays vicariously through the pages of the holiday issues of my favorite home magazines.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
muckrack.com | Jill Waage
The work of a designer or architect is multifaceted. They help people fulfill dreams, maximize views and natural light, restore historical details, and imagine new structures. They guide more sustainable choices, make focal points of antiques, intuit color schemes that express us, and create spaces that hold our core memories. That “short list” not withstanding, a quote in this issue resonated with me for its honest simplicity. Designer Mark D.
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May 3, 2024 | 
muckrack.com | Jill Waage
Summertime for me is always a sensory reset, even more so than spring. Maybe that’s because spring is always a bit tricky to pin down when you live in a part of the country where we fully experience the extremes of all four seasons. But summer is more definite and helps me see and enjoy our home and outdoor spaces with great clarity. A broad and tall series of windows to the timber-lined acreage behind us floods our rooms with southwest light.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
muckrack.com | Jill Waage
Springtime issues of magazines are invariably curated to be harbingers of the season ahead, satisfying an urge for budding flowers and optimistic color palettes to revive our gardens and interiors. In keeping, this issue features ravishing colors and patterns that make the pages themselves blossom. Each featured home has a strong connection to nature through its interiors and where they are sited on their extraordinary properties.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
muckrack.com | Jill Waage
there’s no place like home for the holidays. Could Perry Como have been more spot-on when his easy-listening baritone voice turned that holiday refrain into such a classic? Though the lyrics are relatively simple, the sentiment runs deep. For many folks, traveling great distances—Atlantic to Pacific, as the song notes—and navigating crowded airports or white-knuckling it on unpredictable winter roads is simply the price to be paid to make it back to the comfort of home.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
muckrack.com | Jill Waage
During a recent trip to the first Nashville Design Awards, I had the good fortune to catch up with many industry colleagues I hadn’t seen in person in quite some time. Among them were two friends I always look forward to seeing because I know I will leave uplifted, smarter, and still ruminating on our conversation—be it about design, our businesses, or even the weighty task of writing an editor’s letter. This time, I had all in the same conversation. Our topic: Taste.
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May 5, 2023 | 
muckrack.com | Jill Waage
Summer means it’s time to unwind—in mind and body, as well as in the ways we relax at home. While sun hats and flip-flops allow us to downshift our fashion, swapping out a traditional home for a casual vibe isn’t such an easy maneuver. So follow the lead of the homes featured in this issue, which focuses on livable luxury from coast to coast. Whether in western mountain ranges, on Nantucket Island, or in sunny Florida, these homes prove elegance can be both formal and casual.
