At Home with Lauren Hill

Interior designer Lauren Hill welcomes listeners to her home in Ravenswood, a suburb of Chicago. Lauren shares the design choices she implemented to make her home comfortable and welcoming to guests, and discusses why she chose to create a series of separate spaces in her home, instead of using what she calls the "old-school" open floor plan that seems to dominate American suburbs.  Homeowners and renters do not always have the means to completely overhaul their spaces, she says, so don't be afraid to mix and match different styles of furniture and artwork: "Eclectic is definitely just my style because of the pieces I've inherited and liked, and how my style has evolved over time."

Our mini-series "At Home" is a vicarious look at today's creatives. These are their stories of what it's like to live as a designer. You can follow the "At Home" mini-series with a special photo log, featured at classicist.org.