Seattle Mag
AREA: Hot Property
High Style: A new downtown condo tower offers an urban and eco lifestyle.
Category: NW Home Articles The newest player in downtown Seattle’s bustling shopping and financial district is the 5th and Madison condominium tower. With a targeted gold star LEED rating, the 24-story eco-friendly building sports a plaza level green roof outside and, inside, energy-efficient Bosch kitchen appliances, wool carpets for easy breathing and water-saving solutions,…
AREA: Inside + Out
Outside Flair: Cool looks fit for hot weather.
Category: NW Home Articles This summer, junk those frayed, seen-better-days lounge chairs for a splashy new outdoor wardrobe. The Scoop Bronze Nest (starting at $6,160) from Terris Draheim (Seattle Design Center, 5701 Sixth Ave. S, Suite 258; 206.763.4100; terrisdraheim.com) is a stunning woven all-weather wicker piece featuring gorgeous curves. Each of One Earth One…
AREA: Green Paint
Taking a break from poison paints.
Category: Green Living Summertime is painting time, both indoors and out. Lead paint may be a thing of the 1970s past, but that doesn’t mean that today’s paint isn’t poisonous. Open up a can of standard paint and VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, come fuming out; inhaled, VOCs can really do a number on…
The Stylish Home: Summer Style
Kelley L. Moore’s pointers for poshing up your patio.
Category: NW Home Articles With the days of consecutive glorious sunshine around the corner, when the winter clouds roll back and that broad canvas of blue sky emerges, I’m reminded that it is time to bring the indoors out. In early summer, of course, Pacific Northwesterners still need to cuddle up when the sun…
Ultimate Coast Guide: Southern Oregon Coast
As promised, the complete guide to ultimate coastal destinations in Southern Oregon.
Go here if: you enjoy dune buggies and antiquing—and don’t mind a bit of a trek. Travel time: about six to seven hours from Seattle Feed Seymour at Darlingtonia Botanical Wayside A roadside preservation five miles north of Florence showcases one of southern Oregon’s rarest curiosities: the native carnivorous (it just likes insects—don’t worry) plant…
Video Special: Nancy Guppy at the Garde Rail Gallery
Category: Arts + Events Articles 5/1-5/31 // With an eye toward inequality and injustice, Bellingham artist Dale Gottlieb’s subject matter includes Martin Luther King Jr., the Tuskegee airmen and Abraham Lincoln. Telling stories first through painted images and spare cursive writing, Gottlieb then sends her creations to Nepal, where they are knotted into rugs…
Video: Seattle International Childrens Festival
Category: Arts + Events Articles 5/12-5/17 // Now in its 22nd year, this fest is simply the best for kids. This year’s theme is “Live from Planet Earth,” and accordingly features performers from all over the globe, including Australia’s 46 Circus Acts in 45 Minutes, and Germany’s Puppentheater Halle. Plus world music galore! Hours…
Area: Refresh, A Remodel Short Story
Big Success: A confined Capitol Hill condo kitchen gets a new open look.
Category: NW Home Articles The new sleek, space-savvy kitchen. A law professor with a passion for cooking and entertaining was frustrated by a cramped kitchen measuring just 110 square feet. Not only was the Capitol Hill condo’s outdated ’90s kitchen design dim and cramped, it was visually cut off from the dining room….
The Stylish Home: Cabinet Chic
Kelley L. Moore’s quick fix to keep your small space tidy.
Category: NW Home Articles The Chippendale bar ($95, Antika Antiques, 206.789.6393; antikaantiques.com) before its recreation. Consider adding other space-smart elements around your cabinet. Here, an old chair is made newly hip with fresh paint and mod fabric, a rubber tray layered in frost-white tumbled recycled glass from Bedrock Industries (206.283.7625; bedrockindustries.com) serves as a…
Cottage Industry
A newlywed couple’s labor of love turned a dilapidated fisherman’s shack into a nifty ne
Category: NW Home Articles One part of Diana and Tim Hammer’s larger cottage remodel involved turning an old 10-by-12-foot shed (120 square feet is the maximum structure size that can be built without a permit in Seattle) in their Ballard backyard into an attractive free-standing guest room/office, using mostly reclaimed and donated materials, including…
Walls: Wonder Walls
A 1916 Wallingford bungalow now sports space-smart surfaces.
Category: NW Home Articles CAST architecture’s Matt Hutchins next to his funky but functional shoe wall (the bench visible behind him hides a handy laundry chute). Many a footwear fancier has fantasized of having a closet dedicated to just shoes. Wallingford residents Noelle Noble and Scott Randall dreamed one better, they have an…
Green Scene: A Table Grows in Ballard
Salvaged urban trees turned hand-crafted furniture.
Category: Green Living Donald Smith believes that urban trees make the best furnishings, as they usually grow larger than most trees reared for lumber. For the past two years, the craftsman behind Ballard’s City Trees Furniture (1152 NW 46th St., Seattle; 206.783.1405; citytreesfurniture.com; open Wed., 9 a.m.–5 p.m., or by appointment) has been salvaging…