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Studio IQL is located on Indian Queen Lane, in a converted church. I made an offer on it the first time I saw the building.
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by Val Nehez
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5/11/23
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Not everyone appreciates the roar of chainsaws outside their window first thing in the morning, but it was music to the ears of Pastorius Park neighbor Kava Franklin.
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by Francesca Chapman
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5/4/23
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Flower lovers, rejoice. Germantown Avenue is about to burst into bloom again, and it won’t just be at street level.
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5/4/23
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The “Kid’s Zone” at the Jenks Academy for the Arts and Sciences, a perennially favorite part of Chestnut Hill’s Home & Garden Festival, is back again this year.
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by Emily Plowman, Friends of Jenks
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5/4/23
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The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, the official arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is celebrating its 90th anniversary as a public garden this year in a big way.
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by Carla Robinson
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5/4/23
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With its rich history, diverse landscape and a new executive director committed to community engagement, Philadelphia's Awbury Arboretum is bursting with an exciting lineup of events and activities.
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by Carla Robinson
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5/4/23
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What’s your favorite treasured place in Chestnut Hill? It's time to vote for new sites to join the Chestnut Hill Architectural Hall of Fame.
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by Lori Salganicoff, Alex Bartlett and George McNeely
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5/4/23
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In the spring of 2016, a lawn sign popped up in the front yard of a home at Gravers Lane and Ardleigh Street. The sign advertised Backyard Eats.
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by Len Lear
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5/4/23
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It’s really here. Spring has finally settled in. Despite some recent chill, the welcome warmth of spring is drawing us outdoors again.
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by Frank D. Quattrone
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5/4/23
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The answer most people give today when they are asked why they love Chestnut Hill is that they love its historic village character.
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by Patricia M. Cove
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5/4/23
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It’s a sure sign of spring in Chestnut Hill: the annual Home & Garden Festival, returning to Germantown Avenue Sunday, May 7.
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by Francesca Chapman
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5/3/23
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While midway through the planning of our clients’ Elkins Park home, they got an offer to sell that they could not refuse. This left them searching for a new home.
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by Val Nehez
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4/28/23
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Every room usually has seating, tables of some sort, carpet and lighting. But if the walls are bare, the space also appears bare.
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by Patricia M. Cove
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4/21/23
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Some houses have to be helped to find their true nature. Others have nothing but their own inherent style and ooze existing character. For these properties, the only thing to do is follow their lead.
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by Val Nehez
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4/13/23
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Preserving and maintaining your older home is not cheap. Neither is it cheap to renovate them without diminishing their character, or their value.
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by Patricia Cove
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4/7/23
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When we help people plan a kitchen, we tell them to design to fit the way they actually live. But that’s not always so easy to do when you’re looking at a blank slate.
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by Val Nehez
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3/30/23
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A number of new design-centered stores have recently popped up on the lower end of Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill.
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by Stacia Friedman
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3/30/23
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Welcome Spring! It is the time of renewal, revival and redecorating. The time to put away the blankets and bring out the bunnies. And what goes with bunnies? Flowers.
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by Patricia Cove
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3/23/23
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This is the second of three articles about innovative urban housing in south Chestnut Hill.
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by Richard Bartholomew
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3/23/23
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"The Decoration of Houses” continues to be an exact and authentic classic, and is arguably the most important book of its kind.
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by Patricia Cove
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3/9/23
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