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1 week ago | 
detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth
HOMESTYLEKhristi ZimmethSpecial to The Detroit NewsView Comments Celebrate Earth Day with unique home tourCelebrate Earth Day with guided tours Saturday of Burh Becc at Beacon Springs in Ann Arbor. The home is only the second single-family residence in the world to have attained full Living Certification under the International Living Future's Living Building Challenge program: Net Zero Energy; Net Zero Water; Net Zero Waste and Red List free, ultra-healthy components and Indoor Air Quality.
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1 week ago | 
detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth
HOMESTYLEKhristi ZimmethSpecial to The Detroit NewsView Comments “This is literally trash,” Marty Kohn told appraiser Brian Thomczek with a laugh at a recent Trash or Treasure evaluation session held at the Michigan Design Center in Troy. There, about a dozen people gathered hoping to get good news about their items, or at least enough news to help them make decisions about their item’s future. Kohn elaborated on the statement in his original email asking for an appraisal.
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2 weeks ago | 
detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth
Khristi ZimmethSpecial to The Detroit News“I love bulbs,” writes renowned garden writer and editor Lucy Bellamy in the introduction to “A Year in Bloom: Flowering Bulbs for Every Season.” “I like them for their optimism, their resilience and for their transient beauty.”After a bruising election season and a long winter, many of us may find optimism and resilience in short supply.
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3 weeks ago | 
detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth
HOMESTYLEKhristi ZimmethSpecial to The Detroit NewsView Comments “It’s been hanging in my mom’s bedroom, but that’s about all I know,” Jackie Bramos told appraiser Brian Thomczek at a recent Trash or Treasure appraisal session held at the Michigan Design Center in Troy.
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4 weeks ago | 
detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth
“She gave it to me for Christmas,” Dan Hayes told DuMouchelles appraiser Renee Fessel of the LeRoy Neiman serigraph he recently brought in for appraisal. He included additional information about the gift in his original email asking for information. “My aunt owned an art/print gallery in Indianapolis many decades ago,” Hayes wrote to the column about the piece he was interested in having appraised.
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4 weeks ago | 
detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth
HOMESTYLEKhristi ZimmethSpecial to The Detroit NewsView CommentsIt’s hard to reconcile the “before” Sara Bernstein describes with the “after” seen during a tour of the Commerce Township home she shares with her husband, Scott, and golden retrievers Lacey and Larry. Now a spacious and light-filled two-story home on Union Lake, the original cottage-style home on the lot was just 900 feet and dated to the turn of the century.
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1 month ago | 
detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth
HOMESTYLEKhristi ZimmethTribune News ServiceView Comments “I am attaching photos of three items I inherited from my mother in 2019 which might possibly be of interest to you,” wrote Barbara Goldman asking for help appraising some items she was curious about. She recently brought them to an appraisal session held at the Michigan Design Center in Troy. There antiques expert Brian Thomczek took a closer look at her trio of items in hopes of giving her some additional information on her heirlooms.
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1 month ago | 
detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth
Event celebrates all things quiltMore than 150 handmade quilts will be on display along with a special sale of miniature and small quilts, a themed basket auction and vendors at the CAMEO Quilters Guild 30th anniversary quilt show. “Bloom Together,” is scheduled for 10 a.m. -5 p.m. April 4 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 5 at the First United Methodist Church of Troy, 6363 Livernois Road.
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1 month ago | 
mibluemag.com | Khristi Zimmeth
It’s hard to compete with 100 feet of Orchard Lake frontage, but the landscape that Matt Mosher, of Mosher Design Co. in Royal Oak, developed for a couple who moved from Chicago does just that. Part of a property that formerly housed one of the lake’s original estates, the house and gardens underwent a two-year renovation that began in 2019. A new, 4,000-square-foot residenceand guest house replaced the site’s original 1921 farmhouse.
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1 month ago | 
mibluemag.com | Khristi Zimmeth
Who hasn’t dreamed about having their own private island getaway? For the lucky owners of this Harsens Island second home, that dream is now a reality. Designer Nicole Withers worked with the Marine City-based homeowners, Vince Cataldo of Infuz Architects, and South Channel Homes on the project. Withers, of Jones-Keena & Co. in Troy, began working with the couple more than 20 years ago after Cataldo introduced them, when the architect and designer worked on the couple’s primary residence.
