Lisa Jevens

JOURNALIST, BRANDED CONTENT WRITER, EDITOR

Interior Design Adds the 'Wow' Factor to Senior Communities

Step into any of Chicago’s new or newly remodeled senior living communities, and you may think you’ve accidentally entered a fancy...

A tour of a new retirement community brings plenty of welcome surprises. Gone are the long hospital-like hallways, replaced by open...

Online searches. Open houses. Campus tours. Meals in the dining room. Applications. Financial calculations. If you're in the so-called...

Snore rooms. Drop zones. Tandem garages. Conversation islands. It's 2014, and the active adult real estate market is wowing buyers with...

Dreaming of a home in a Chicagoland active adult community, but have less than $200,000 to spend? There are at least three affordable...

Walk-in showers. Butler’s pantries. Pull-out shelves. Custom woodwork. LED lighting. When it comes to new home amenities, yesterday’s...

Every summer, House Beautiful magazine erects a pavilion in New York's Rockefeller Plaza and asks a renowned designer to make his or her...

With 9 out of 10 homebuyers using the Internet in their search, according to the National Association of Realtors, home shopping is like...