Architecture + Design
Room of the Day: Soothing Comfort in a Lakeside Living Room
A wood-burning fireplace, natural elements, mixed woods and inviting seating make this a relaxing spot after a day on the lake
This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. You won’t find a big-screen TV in this living room across the street from Lake Sammamish, near Seattle. That’s because after a day of boating or hiking on nearby trails, the homeowners, who live here year-round, long to stay unplugged reading, playing games, entertaining and snuggling up as a…
How to Stay Relaxed When Hosting Overnight Guests
Make sure their visit goes smoothly by following these simple steps
This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. Inviting friends or family to stay in your home is a great way to spend time together, but allowing people to share your life and your space also demands some thought and planning if it’s to go well. After all, you want your visitors to have a terrific time…
Ryan Lewis Takes a Bite Out of Food Deserts
The music producer and Macklemore collaborator dishes on his new cause
Music producer, DJ, Macklemore collaborator and Seattleite Ryan Lewis has a new cause: food deserts. He’s working with Naked Juice and Wholesome Wave—a national nonprofit founded by Michael Nischan, a James Beard award-winning chef—on a #DrinkGoodDoGood selfie campaign to raise awareness about the difficulty many Americans have in accessing affordable, fresh foods in their neighborhoods….
Cooking Classes to Spice Up Your Kitchen
Learn how to add excitement to your at-home meals
“The best thing in the world is when someone makes you dinner,” says Bonny Giardina, studio manager at Hipcooks, a cooking school in South Lake Union. And she’s right. We devote many pages in this magazine to discussions of what the city’s chefs might cook us for dinner, but the (less exciting) truth is that…
Hunting for Majestic Porcini Mushrooms
How to use these meaty mushrooms found in the woods
To the English, they’re “penny buns.” French speakers know them as cèpes, Germans say steinpilz. Here, in mushroom-hunting circles, we commonly call them kings, short for king boletes. On restaurant menus you’re more apt to see the Italian word for them, porcini (meaning “little pigs”), since this is the term of commerce for this mushroom…
Exploring the Woodworking Talents of the Pacific Northwest
Furniture designer Seth Rolland and artist Laura Yeats take inspiration from Washington's trees
Formfitting Wood furniture designer Seth Rolland is originally from New York, but feels most at home in the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. “There are traces of life and history in wood, which is why we humans relate so well to it,” says Rolland, who moved to Port Townsend 14 years ago from Taos,…
Hotspot Fire Pits Amp Up Outdoor Gatherings
Welder Tim Odell's fire pits and detachable grills are great for evenings outside
You could say welder Tim Odell’s Hotspot fire pits and detachable grills were inspired by the way the wind was blowing. “I live in the Methow Valley, and in the spring, the wind would blow from one side of my house and in the fall, from the other,” he says. Tired of gusts extinguishing his…
See 6 Stunning Patio Transformations
New amenities, plantings and paving elevate these outdoor living spaces
This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. A patio can be more than a concrete slab, as these six transformations show. From a geometric brick paving pattern that alludes to a homeowner’s vision for a labyrinth, to bluestone pavers intermixed with gravel to spread the budget further, these patios previously featured on Houzz inspire stylish outdoor…
Waterfront San Juan Home Brings the Outdoors Inside
A San Juan Islands vacation home practices an open-door policy with the outside
When the doors open wide at this waterfront residence on one of the San Juan Islands, it’s hard to tell where the indoors ends and the outdoors begins. Sliding glass panels at both the north- and south-facing sides of the1,600-square-foot house retract to open up the entire living area to the sights and sounds of…
Lakewood Home Seamlessly Blends Indoors and Outdoors
A Lakewood remodel creates light-filled spaces for a growing family
The ’40s bungalow just “felt right” as soon as Shannon and Pablo Supkay walked through the front door of the 2,000-square-foot house 10 years ago in Seattle’s Lakewood neighborhood.The two-bedroom house had a cozy atmosphere, the neighborhood was familiar to the couple, and they were instantly charmed by the peaceful Lake Washington view. Before shot…
Skagit Valley Family Transforms Patio into Extension of Their Home
An extensive patio project paves the way for an Edison family to enjoy the outdoors year round
After commuting to Seattle for work five days a week, Scott Edwards heads north to the Skagit Valley for some rural R&R. Edwards, managing principal for Dovetail General Contractors, and his wife had lived within the Seattle city limits for 10 years, but when their daughters, now 17 and 14, came along, they decided to…
Orcas Island Artist Gives New Life to Fallen Trees
With Laura Yeats' touch, madrona trees become beautiful vessels
ORCAS ISLAND ARTIST LAURA YEATS has developed a unique relationship with a particular species of the island’s ubiquitous flora: the madrona tree. She uses the madrona’s gnarled, spout-like knots—which form as the tree self-prunes and heals itself—to create her imaginative bud vessels. “They started out as solid, sculptural pieces,” Yeats says, “but Nisha Klein…
Design Team Marries Indoor and Outdoor Living at West Seattle Home
Jody Estes and Matt Wittman combine indoor and outdoor spaces in their West Seattle backyard studio
“We wanted to buy the worst possible property,” says Jody Estes, reminiscing about the house hunt she and her husband began in July 2007. Estes and husband Matt Wittman, of the eponymous Wittman Estes Architecture and Landscape firm in Georgetown (wittman-estes.com), knew they had the design skills to turn any nightmare property into their dream…
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