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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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, [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →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 [...]
Read More →“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, [...]
Read More →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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