Posted June 01, 2017in At Home With
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 an inside edge. “Around the office, I heard someone say, ‘I think they’re going to start doing hard hat tours
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Posted May 03, 2017in At Home With
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 hoops? Forget about it. If a gym has a basketball court, it’s seemingly always occupied either by league play, pick-up
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Posted April 05, 2017in At Home With
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 in a huge family at a bed and breakfast,” she says. As the fifth of seven siblings, Koehn often found
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Posted March 01, 2017in At Home With
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, a foundation or zoning restrictions. Inside it are two young professionals simply trying to figure out life in their tiny
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Posted February 01, 2017in At Home With
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 dome home.” The iconic home is a contemporary story-and-a-half, single-family home built in 1980. The house has nearly 2,100 square
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Posted January 04, 2017in At Home With
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 initially bought his quaint home and then sold it to move to California. When he moved back to central Iowa
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Posted November 30, 2016in At Home With
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 men’s bathrooms!” they’d say. “With a urinal! And we wrote our names on the walls with crayons!” During the summer
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Posted October 05, 2016in At Home With
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 a home. It has been a seller’s market, and even though the pair had seen many houses, they weren’t anywhere
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Posted August 31, 2016in At Home With
“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, and, as a youth, he didn’t know how his life would play out. Sizing up the sanity of chickens wasn’t
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Posted August 10, 2016in At Home With
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 street, giving you a sense of being in another era. Stepping inside the building time moves forward and you find
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