Khristi Zimmeth

Detroit, Grosse Pointe Park

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Articles

Welcome Mat: Enter your photos for the Homestyle Garden Photo Contest today

1 week ago | detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth

Homestyle Garden Photo Contest kicks off for 2025It's time for you to enter your garden photos in Homestyle's annual contest! Here's how the contest will work: From May 30 through Aug. 18, you'll be able to enter pictures of your garden (shots from this year only, please) and winners will be named every week through Aug. 22. Weekly winners will receive a home or garden book.
Trash or Treasure: Antique chairs worth more in the past

1 week ago | detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth

“My aunt lived in Grosse Pointe,” Terry Gincott explained to appraiser Bob DuMouchelle at a recent appraisal session held at the downtown auction house and gallery. His grandmother worked for his aunt’s next-door neighbor, who was an avid antique collector, he continued. The neighbor and her husband would “travel to the northern East Coast to purchase antiques and have them sent back to the Detroit train station by rail.
Teaming Up for a Seat at the Table

2 weeks ago | hourdetroit.com | Khristi Zimmeth

Strength in numbers. That hope and philosophy prompted nine Detroit-based female architects, architectural designers, and landscape architects to join forces last year in an effort to raise awareness of their work and the possibilities it represents for transforming Detroit.
Welcome Mat: Kensington Metropark Art Fair is Memorial Day weekend

3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Khristi Zimmeth

New home goods at Target Looking to clean more efficiently and keep your family healthy? Two new handy home items recently made their debut at the retailer. Fans of Branch Basics will be happy to know that the healthy cleaning products are now available at their local Target or online. “Since day one, our focus has been on empowering people to remove products with harmful chemicals from their homes,” the company says.
Welcome Mat: Kensington Metropark Art Fair is Memorial Day weekend

3 weeks ago | detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth

HOMESTYLEKhristi ZimmethSpecial to The Detroit NewsView Comments New home goods at TargetLooking to clean more efficiently and keep your family healthy? Two new handy home items recently made their debut at the retailer. Fans of Branch Basics will be happy to know that the healthy cleaning products are now available at their local Target or online. “Since day one, our focus has been on empowering people to remove products with harmful chemicals from their homes,” the company says.
Grosse Pointe interior designer freshens up a northern Michigan getaway

3 weeks ago | detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth

Erica Harrison was relaxing at a pool in northern Michigan when she struck up a conversation with another nearby sunbather. A week later, the Grosse Pointe-based interior designer received a text from the woman, asking if she’d be interested in helping with an up north project a friend was working on. No small cottage, that project ended up being a former hunting club and golf course in Atlanta, east of Gaylord. It had been in the friend’s family for generations but was in need of a refresh.
Bold and Blue - Detroit Design

3 weeks ago | detroitdesignmag.com | Khristi Zimmeth

Designer/homeowner relationships sometimes have unusual beginnings. That’s certainly true of the connection Mia Johnson recently had with a client and a project in Bloomfield Township. “She’s my gynecologist,” Johnson shares. “She delivered my 9-year-old daughter.
After two centuries, DIA reunites portrait with armor in mini exhibit

1 month ago | detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth

ARTSKhristi ZimmethSpecial to The Detroit NewsView Comments Everyone loves a reunion – including, it seems, the Detroit Institute of Arts. On April 25th, the museum unveiled the latest of its ongoing mini exhibitions known as “Guest/s of Honor,” small gem-like displays designed to spotlight a work or works on loan from around the world.
Welcome Mat: 44th Annual Art Birmingham is May 10-11

1 month ago | detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth

HOMESTYLEKhristi ZimmethSpecial to The Detroit NewsView Comments Cranbrook House & Gardens hosting plant saleShop in person May 16-17 for native plants, perennials, fairy garden plants and herbs as well as tropical plants from the Cranbrook House & Gardens Conservatory Greenhouse at the landmark’s 53rd annual spring plant sale. You’ll also find gardening items and other related products to help you get your home and garden ready for the season. Plant purchases support preservation and operations.
Trash or Treasure: Vintage chair 'surprisingly comfortable'

1 month ago | detroitnews.com | Khristi Zimmeth

“It’s surprisingly comfortable, even more if you add a cushion,” Mary Jo Stemple told appraiser Brian Thomczek at a recent Trash or Treasure event. She was referring to the vintage wooden chair she brought to the Michigan Design Center recently hoping for more information and a value. “This chair was part of my inheritance from my father,” she wrote in her original email to the column.