Brett and Shane’s Edgewater Glen condo
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Brett and Shane lived in Lakeview before buying their vintage one-bedroom condo in Edgewater Glen in 2001. While the new zip code lacks Lakeview’s hustle-bustle, it’s not without its own charms: the lake’s a few blocks away, the streets are lined with mature trees (including many Catalpas), and the housing stock is gorgeous – a mix of single family homes (mostly Foursquare and Victorians) and brick 2 and 3-flats interspersed with a fewer number of larger apartment buildings, including the vintage six-flat where Brett and Shane live. Built in the early twentieth century, the apartment retains many original details, including wood moldings and hardwood floors, but a few years ago, Brett and Shane gutted and completely redesigned their kitchen and dining room, opening the areas to each other and incorporating a built-in desk and cabinets. When they redesigned the kitchen, the clever renovators modified its entrance to follow the original architecture by duplicating the angled wall at the other end of the hallway near the front foyer. The ingenious plan gave them space to incorporate much needed built-in cabinetry, and it also gave them another prominent wall to display art from their eclectic collection, which includes everything from an original page of operatic, high octane comic book art by Flash artist Francis Manapul to a beautiful, quiet alley scape by one of my favorite painters, Chicago-based Chuck Meyers. Track lighting illuminates the art throughout, and in the evening, it appears to glow from the street. As I discovered when I first visited earlier this summer, Brett and Shane’s place is just as warm and handsome inside as it looks from the outside. Thanks Brett and Shane!
Brett Newton is a freelance art director. Click here for his website. Click here for past Open House posts.
Brett and Shane often shop locally. A piece by Las Manos Gallery owner, artist Michelle Peterson-Albandoz hangs above the fireplace, and they bought the mid-century chairs from the always amazing Scout. (Tonight: Ted Harris light show. Don’t miss it).
Brett’s mother’s husband Joe Zimmer built the large media cabinet.
Say what you will, but when I see a magnifying glass, I think detective.
A painting by Rockford based artist Deborah Newton (and Brett’s mother).
The front sun porch.
The wings are cute, but I wouldn’t trust him for a minute.
That’s the new angled wall they created, which I was telling you about earlier.
Top: a beautiful Chuck Meyers painting.
More original comic book art. Shane framed it alongside the published page.
Built-in storage galore and very cool to boot.
Meeting a person with more Superman memorabilia than me threw me off for a second.
Shane (left) and Brett in their building’s beautiful, lush shared back yard.
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