Brownstone Boys: Is It a Good Idea to Build a Bedroom With No Window? Sometimes the best place to put a third bedroom is in the middle of the house. The gorgeous mural by Lauren Kaelin is the ...

Before this, Valencia primarily painted canvases in her room. “Now out of nowhere I’m painting a huge mural,” she said. The roses on the mural were Rebeca Quach’s idea.

"The transformation reads bright and airy in the day, and deep and moody after twilight hours," the DIYer says.

The bedroom mural project is part of a $2 million restoration effort underway at Wright`s onetime home and studio at 951 Chicago Ave., Oak Park. ”It was a gamble.

The only mural Maurice Sendak is known to have ever painted has been donated by the one-time children for whom it was made, and is being restored for display. We talk to the artist and the donors ...