“Can this thing stand up?” Brandon Mullenberg asked when reviewing architect Mark Haizlip’s initial scheme for his and wife Nikola’s new Queen Anne home. Purchased in 2009, the site’s original Tudor-style house had fallen into disrepair, and its hillside location posed inherent limitations and concerns for the new owners. Presented with a total teardown and rebuild,…

Pioneer Square is welcoming a new tenant with big ideas for its new home. The Center for Architecture & Design—the result of a partnership between AIA Seattle, the Seattle Architecture Foundation, Design in Public and the AIA Washington Council—is scheduled to move into the historic National Building by the end of this year. Designed by…

From modern masterpieces to 5-Star Built Green homes, we’ve rounded up the Pacific Northwest’s most beautiful houses and how to get the look in your own home. 1. Modern RetreatAn award-winning Winthrop home by famed local architect Tom Kundig balances big valley views with intimate spacesBy Sheila Cain; Photographed by Ed SozinhoThe home’s materials of…

With iron gray siding and ultramodern facades, the three town houses on 18th Avenue and E Spring Street, designed by architect couple Tiffany Bowie and Joe Malboeuf (Malboeuf Bowie Architecture; mb-architecture.com), initially read more contempo condo than eco-friendly. But ascend the glulam beam staircases within each one, and you’ll see how the roof decks of…

Karen Hugg, owner of Red Madrona Gardens, a garden design and maintenance company, eats, breathes and blogs gardening. For those of you avid green thumbs immersed in the online world of gardening, Hugg was recently featured on Back To My Garden gardening blog and podcast with Dave Ledoux.  Hugg has gardened for nearly 20 years and…

In one week, Lindy Dodge, a furniture maker and owner of James Furniture Co., and her engineer husband Travis Dodge went from renting a place in Olympia to owning a craftsman home in Tacoma. “Renting didn’t make sense anymore so we thought we’d buy an old junker,” she says. But they had no idea it…

Haute cuisine fans of MistralKitchen have a new reason to raise their glasses. Partnering with acclaimed glassblower Michael Schunke, chef/owner William Belickis has debuted a custom stemware collection as the crown sparkler in the restaurant’s newly redesigned Jewel Box Bar.“Our cuisine is designed to be refreshing, to elevate,” Belickis says. “The glasses really grab that.”…

When 2008’s economic downturn forced then graphic designer Mark Dellplain to reassess his career, the Bellevue resident made an unusual decision: He bought a boat. “Growing up on Vashon Island, I watched my father build wooden boats,” Dellplain says. “He died when I was 7, and I wanted to see what it was about working…

Each month, we crawl through real estate listings on various websites searching for homes–in all sorts of price points and locations–that for some reason, just haven’t found the right person or family to call their own. Sad. But why haven’t these seemingly lovely dwellings sold? Almost a year ago we featured this one (which shockingly…

It was the wrong house. Or at least Emily Trittschuh wrote down the wrong address to check out on her weekly, Sunday-afternoon house hunt. The 1953 pea-soup green, 2,520-square-foot, ranch-style residence in West Seattle’s Admiral District was over her budget, but, since she had already driven out, she saw no harm in a quick walkthrough.

This summer has been a hot one, and there’s no better way to escape the heat than to lie by the pool in your own backyard. Imagine sipping on iced tea while sunbathing or making a splash with friends at your next pool party. Get inspired to create the perfect poolside spot with these seven…

Fred Huntsman and Barb Roberts’ love for mid-century modern design had them considering leaving their 1929 Crown Hill house for a new place that would embody the clean simplicity and indoor/outdoor integration of the 1960s. “We were starting to get serious about it,” says Huntsman, an outpatient staffing supervisor at Harborview Medical Center. “We had…

Each month, we crawl through real estate listings on various websites searching for homes–in all sorts of price points and locations–that for some reason, just haven’t found the right person or family to call their own. Sad. But why haven’t these seemingly lovely dwellings sold? A few months ago we featured this one (which shockingly…