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Posted June 01, 2017in At Home With

Ellen Butler

Downtown domestication Ellen Butler had her eye on the new Fourth + Court apartments above Hy-Vee. Her employer, Happy Medium, designed the website and branding for the building, giving her [...]

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Posted May 03, 2017in At Home With

Laurie Schake

Half-court home court The gym can be a hassle. Parking usually isn’t great, lines form for equipment, and there always seems to be unattended children running around. Looking to shoot [...]

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Posted April 05, 2017in At Home With

Cyd Koehn

Three kitchens and a cook Cyd Koehn doesn’t remember when she made her first cupcake, but she knows she was doing it at a very young age. “I grew up [...]

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Posted March 01, 2017in At Home With

A tiny house on the prairie

But it’s time to move on Tucked in the countryside of Elkhart a few miles outside of Des Moines and slightly east of Ankeny is a house without a mortgage, [...]

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Posted February 01, 2017in At Home With

No place like dome

The sphere is nature’s most efficient shape. If you’ve spent much time in West Des Moines, at some point you’ve probably seen or heard of the “round house” or “the [...]

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Posted January 04, 2017in At Home With

Going home again

Whoever said, “You can’t go home again,” hasn’t spoken with Ron Choate. Choate grew up on the south side of Des Moines, a block from where he currently lives. He [...]

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Posted November 30, 2016in At Home With

The Abrams: The handwriting is on the wall

Aaron and Jackie Abram have the kind of home that your kids — after visiting for a play date — won’t shut up about. “The Abrams have separate women’s and [...]

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Posted October 05, 2016in At Home With

Living the dream

Eric and Ashley Juhl needed a nest for their family — one boy, one girl, a boxer named “Charlie” and a fat cat named “Whiskey.” They were out hunting for [...]

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Posted August 31, 2016in At Home With

The mental health of chickens

“Chickens go insane over watermelon,” according to Lee Ford. As an urban farmer living just outside Des Moines’ city limits, he should know. Ford grew up in East Los Angeles, [...]

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Posted August 10, 2016in At Home With

Lauren Chorpening

Sitting on the north side of the Sherman Hill neighborhood, the old brick building looks like all the other brick buildings. The prewar victorian style resonates up and down the [...]

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