Health + Wellness

A Place To Breathe

Local nonprofit Yoga Moves MS celebrates 20 years — and MS Awareness Month. Article by Susan Thwing | Photography by Elayne Gross March is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month, a time to spotlight the people and programs helping patients live with greater strength, connection and hope. In Southeast Michigan, one nonprofit has been quietly changing lives for more than two decades — one carefully supported pose, stretch and breath at a time. Yoga Moves MS (yogamovesms.org) recently celebrated its...

Home + Design

The Diamond Standard

Diamond Developments redefines what it means to build well. Article by Todd Haight Most people who have lived through a major remodel carry the same memories: dust in the air, unanswered phone calls, a schedule that keeps slipping. And the nagging fear that what was promised might never arrive. Paul Livernois has heard those stories for decades. And every time he does, he shakes his head. “It doesn’t have to be that way,” he says. He smiles in an easy, unguarded way that has become his...

Home + Design

Modern Love

At Italcasa, high design meets human connection. Article by Susan Thwing Walk into Italcasa Design and you’ll notice two things pretty quickly: the boldness of contemporary European furniture and the ease of the conversation happening around it.  There’s no hard sell, no pressure to “know” design before you arrive. Instead, owner Bill Bahoora starts the same way he always does: with questions, stories and, depending on the time of day, espresso, water — or maybe a glass of Prosecco. For...

Home + Design

Whimsical, Wonderful

Designer Carrie Long’s own home is a functional, friendly and polished sanctuary. Article by Lynne Konstantin | Photography by Diana Paulson Carrie Long has an uncanny ability to see beauty in bones. For example, when the founder and principal designer of Royal Oak’s Carrie Long Interiors set eyes on the circa-1936 Colonial in West Bloomfield Twp., she saw beyond the long-neglected foreclosure. What she envisioned was a light-filled, welcoming and livable home for her own family — her...