Grail house

Borrow less, eat less and believing more in humanity.

Not
Much more
To say.

Making Home

I wanted to establish the space in the atrium of our new home as one with vitality and light and color. I looked for light fixtures and knowing ai always have a penchant to spend thrifty and to have a fresh “unique” creative approach I struggled for what light fixtures I could place to deliver the ambience I envisioned.

One day at Ikea I had a glimpse of their paper lights – and thought of my daughter att home with her interest in paints lately and generally expressing herself and though a family art project was in order.

So for the cost of $180 I bought two medium sized paper lamps and one large one and bright them home.

The babysitters and our daughter slowly experimented with colors over weeks and eventually we hit upon a theme.

Now I will think of my daughter at this age for the many years to come. I sprayed the paper with a thin coat of no vic polyurethane so the lights have longevity and Izzy can look up at her 2 year old inspiration.

Will County, fed up with fees, pulls some accounts from Harris; MB Financial wins business
Saving East is in housing.
Saving north is around money.

Do like This County Official who noticed
Fees at Harris doubled:

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20110921/NEWS01/110929962/will-county-fed-up-with-fees-pulls-some-accounts-from-harris-mb

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Frugality to continue:

But affordability is there within reach for those who buy a home now

The weak home sales numbers will continue into 2012, 2013 and the market will stay down …. Even though the affordability is way up:
housing is now around 23 percent undervalued against disposable income per employee and disposable income per capita.

Will someone please get going on The Ramova Theatre rehab!
I peeked inside a few months ago and was elevated by the amount of antiquity intact but amazed at how ignored the building is by the Alderman and Daley clan.

Can’t someone fund raise or find a way to rejuvenate this building!?

Designed by The Vari Family – architects from Bridgeport – this building at Halsted and Archer leans onto traffic with modern cues as tens of thousands of eyes hit this corner each day.
It alters the space – being such a hard and fast street- this building meet us and lifts us a bit.

Unfortunately the units were designed very large and the unit count and prices do not allow the sales and pricing to fit the market now- so they sit unfinished and largely unsold for now.

But what a breath of fresh air coming out of the Cermack corridor as you go S on Halsted.