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Brickton Art Center : Design a Dream ShowcasePut 16 of the area's top home designers together, and you're bound to create something beautiful.
The Brickton Art Center's charity showcase of designers did just that with a new house at 423 S. Engel Boulevard. The brick, 4,800-square-foot home - built by Rob Lohens, president of L & K Development - features four bedrooms, two and one-half baths, a designer kitchen, and a 1,800-square-foot finished basement.
Walter E. Smithe Custom Furniture, the corporate sponsor for Brickton's "Design a Dream" benefit, furnished several of the rooms. A handful of Chicagoland artists adorned the walls, floors and ceilings with their works.
The house is open for public guided tours through Sept. 26. House walk tickets are still on sale, running $15 in advance and $20 at the door. The center plans a mother-daughter tea, a pampered spa day, cooking classes and creativity workshops at the house as well. Proceeds from these events will help the art center expand its programs and services, according to the center's officials.
Visitors to the house see plenty of surprises. A tiny mud room sports an elaborate bee-and-sunflower mural on the ceiling. A handsome custom foosball table stands in the basement. On one wall of the nursery, a line from a children's story about a frog is painted large and green.
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