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3 weeks ago | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Lynne Thompson
The red-brick Georgian colonial was exactly what the couple had been searching for: a Shaker Heights home on a half acre lot with an in-ground swimming pool, along with a whirlpool spa. But it wasn’t dive-right-in ready for fun in the sun. Brian Shirk of Genesis Landscaping in Chardon describes a chain-link-fenced backyard with landscaping so overgrown that it obscured views of the pool from the house.
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1 month ago | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Lynne Thompson |Roll Hall
The idea of an exhibit celebrating Saturday Night Live’s rich musical history wasn’t anything new. Executive producer Lorne Michaels and his friend John Sykes, chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, had been discussing it for at least a few years. But talk didn’t turn into action until SNL staffers began preparing to mark the weekly NBC comedy show’s 50 years on the air, most notably with a Feb. 16 anniversary special.
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2 months ago | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Lynne Thompson
The barn near the entrance to Sue Urban and Kelly Craighead’s bucolic 10 acres in Valley City doesn’t look like your usual farm building. The giant wedge of metal roof and rhythmically spaced battens certainly wouldn’t be mistaken for the 1980s dirt-floor counterpart it replaced. “The original owners had peacocks in it,” remembers Urban, owner of used construction equipment broker Urban Aerial & Earth.
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2 months ago | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Lynne Thompson
SUGGESTED: Cleveland's 10 Best New Restaurants of 2025, Picked By Our EditorsThe result is a decor that blends the approachability of a moderately priced chain outpost with the ambiance of an upscale hot spot. It serves as a showcase for a menu that executive chef Antonio Cano Jr. has been tweaking since he took over the kitchen in November, four months after Westsiders’ July opening. The former Fahrenheit chef de cuisine’s menu is driven by his Italian-Mexican heritage and other cultures.
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2 months ago | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Lynne Thompson
Summer Alaedeen needed to make the interior design equivalent of a buzzer-beating, game-winning half-court shot. A Westlake couple had hired her to redecorate their basketball-loving 11-year-old son’s bedroom as a surprise, and no mass-produced theme wallpaper or team logo decal would do. The light yellow room boasted a vaulted tray ceiling and large window, complete with a window seat, flanked by built-in bookcases.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Lynne Thompson
Minimalism isn’t for everyone, says Kristen Hennie, owner of Ducy Design in Westlake. She gives us the 411 on who wants it and why, along with how she makes it work for each homeowner. The ClientsHennie says minimalists are generally younger singles or empty nesters looking to simplify their lives. She recalls a client’s remark after she and her husband returned to their large Cleveland-area home after a stay in their Florida condominium: “We don’t need all this.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Lynne Thompson
Some parents lament the idea of becoming empty nesters. Wendy Berry’s clients embraced it. The couple had raised their two children in a 7,200-square-foot colonial and were ready to downsize after the kids graduated from college. “They just wanted to purge and have this very turnkey living,” says Berry, the owner of Chagrin Falls-based W Design.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Lynne Thompson
The room over the modern farmhouse’s four-car garage boasted multiple windows, a pitched ceiling, a full bath and two walk-in closets — the perfect place, the homeowners decided, for a guest suite. Laura Yeager Smith of Hudson-based Laura Yeager Smith Home & Design explains that the Aurora home only had an owner’s suite and bedrooms for each of the couple’s three grade-school-age children, who no longer had space to play in the lower level after it was finished as the adults’ entertainment area.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Lynne Thompson
My Health: The Effects of COVID on Heart HealthEven people who recovered from COVID-19 with seemingly no lingering complications may be at risk for experiencing a heart-stopping consequence. A new study led by the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Southern California found that those who have had COVID-19 were twice as likely to suffer a major cardiac event such as a heart attack, stroke or even death for up to three years after diagnosis of the infection.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Lynne Thompson
The Cape Cod-style home appeared to be ideal for a single person. The second floor consisted of three bedrooms and two full baths, spaces that could be relegated to owner’s and guest quarters, plus a home office or gym. But the new owner of the Cleveland Heights abode was an empty nester who wanted to age in place. That meant adding a first-floor owner’s suite — and utilizing every square foot of the existing main level, including the foyer.
