Architecture + Design

Tide and True

Tide and True

How Dilip Wagle and Darshana Shanbhag found their dream second home on Bainbridge Island

By May 2022, Dilip Wagle and Darshana Shanbhag’s dream of retiring on the beach was dead in the water. The Bellevue couple had spent years searching the west-facing waterfront corridor from Bellingham to Oregon, but always found themselves a step behind the pandemic-induced buying frenzy. They were about to give up when they noticed a…

Gables Queen Anne
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Publisher's Note: The Beauty Of A Second Home

Publisher’s Note: The Beauty Of A Second Home

A place to relax, refresh, and a solid investment

Nobel prize Literature Laureate Paul Thomas Mann had the right idea about a change in scenery when he said: “We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience…

The Home For The Sleepers Of Seattle For 53 Years
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The Home For The Sleepers Of Seattle For 53 Years

For more than 50 years, our goal has been to improve the lives of our customers by responsibly promoting durable, quality, earth-friendly products for the home. We source, sell, and act with integrity, striving always to provide unmatched service. Designed For Sustainability Bedrooms & More focuses on two-sided flippable mattresses, providing both investment value and…

Prismatic Palace

Prismatic Palace

Renovated home adds splashes of color to Wedgwood

Their new home, built in the 1990s, stood meekly before them, hat in hand. “There wasn’t anything special, wasn’t anything appealing,” she notes. Remnants of a bygone era included pillars, carpeted bathrooms, a sunken living room and a Jacuzzi in the master suite. The home’s disagreeable floor plan backed the family of five into the…

Interior Motives

Interior Motives

Seattle’s LeeAnn Baker brings a touch of Northwest elegance to her designs

LeeAnn Baker couldn’t wait for new home magazines to arrive. When they did, she immediately flipped to the back. She wanted to look at floor plans. That passion for interior design really blossomed more than 30 years ago while attending The New York School of Interior Design, where she worked alongside interior designers and architects…

Among the Trees

Among the Trees

Creative San Juan project seeks harmony with nature

Harriett “Hatty” Hatch began her career as a confident art teacher, but uncertain artist. In time, she would voluntarily check herself into the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. “I just wanted to be able to design a stable for a horse,” she recalls, “but I didn’t have a horse.” She eventually crossed trails with…

Going Out of My Gourd With Curiosity

Going Out of My Gourd With Curiosity

What’s a gourd and why does Washington state have a society dedicated to it?

Take a break from leftovers and explore the weird, warty wonders of gourds — fall’s most delightful oddballs. #PostThanksgivingReads #GourdLife #SeattleMag

Bringing Light into Seattle’s Darker Days

Bringing Light into Seattle’s Darker Days

Keep the gloom out and the coziness in

As the days get shorter and Seattle’s famous gray blanket settles in, it’s hard not to feel the urge to hibernate. The rain starts tapping at the windows, and staying inside in your comfiest clothes feels like the best option. But instead of letting the gloom win, what if we brought a little light into…

An Adventure Driven Purely By Impulse

An Adventure Driven Purely By Impulse

A chance trip to West Seattle leads to a new home

Kirsten Adams, Paul Midgen, and their young daughter, Lark, had no better luck than the three bears when they washed up on the shores of Seattle in early 2018…

Queer Eye Star Bobby Berk Showcases His Style in Newcastle

Queer Eye Star Bobby Berk Showcases His Style in Newcastle

New residential development features Berk’s signature touches

The pandemic is still very much on Bobby Berk’s mind — and it’s changed how he thinks about home design…

Montlake Maximalists

Montlake Maximalists

Couple strips 1915 Dutch colonial home

Subscribers to the minimalist movement that has dominated American interior design over the past decade-plus may be roughly cleaved into two demographic groups…

Picture Perfect, Inside and Out

Picture Perfect, Inside and Out

The Friedman home serves as a rotating art gallery

“Canoe Trails Residence” is a home art gallery designed with velvet gloves and without velvet ropes. For decades, Ken and Jane Friedman have been serious curators and creators of art. Jane formerly co-owned Friedman Oens Gallery on Bainbridge Island, acquiring notable pieces from around the Northwest and world. Their collection includes…

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