May 2014
Update Your Sofa Instantly with Pillows that Pop
Pretty pillows with plenty of punch for your home
Left to right: Hand-stitched floral pillow ($650) from Susan Wheeler Home, local artist Nancy Klapmeier’s custom horse silhouette pillow made of felted wool and vintage suit scraps ($65) from Ludlow Home; Ryan Studio Neo Stripe Lagoon pillow ($225) from Veritables; Great Findz vintage pennant pillow ($78) from Haystack Home in Kirkland; and an antique suzani pillow ($225) from…
Where to Go for Top-Notch Upholstery
Aside from tempting tabletop fodder and furniture, Camelion Design (Ballard, 5330 Ballard Ave. NW; 206.783.7125) has a fabulous fabric line ($150 per yard), with a swatch count of 1,000 to choose from to give your couch or chair a classy new cover, or to create that just-right accent pillow. (FYI, Camelion recommends Eidem’s Upholstery, just…
Six Great Garden Stores in Seattle
Dig Nursery (Vashon Island, 19028 Vashon Hwy. SW; 206.463.5096) is a full-fledged, flora-rich nursery full of garden goodies, from plants and seeds to colorful pots and crow statuary. Exotic flora is the focus of The Palm Room (Ballard, 5336 Ballard Ave. NW; 206.782.7256), where you can buy one of its sexy succulents or tropicals, or…
Home Decor Stores with Classic, Contemporary Goods
Masins (Bellevue, 10708 Main St.; 425.450.9999) has been decorating homes in the Pacific Northwest since 1927. Today, this decidedly up-market and sophisticated store is filled with designs from Stickley to Kravet, and a staff of accredited interior designers to guide you through the process. Current crush: a dining table with a stained cobalt blue top…
Best Home Decor Shops in Seattle for Green Goods
NuBe Green (Capitol Hill, 1527 10th Ave.; 206.402.4515) really makes green beautiful—from vintage blanket-covered club chairs and salvaged wood furniture to handmade Pebble vases ($14–$26) from Seattle’s Material Good, which benefit good causes. It even has a rental service, complete with charming reclaimed place settings, vintage bud vases and candelabras, to make your next shindig…
Things to Do in Seattle: It’s Museum Week Northwest
Score two-for-one admission to a slew of museums in and around Seattle
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The Top Kitchen Shops in Seattle Bellevue
Located in the former Dish It Up space on Ballard Avenue, Culinary Essentials (Ballard, 5320 Ballard Ave. NW; 206.789.1334), originally an expansion of Bellevue’s J Culinary Essentials (now closed), serves up plenty of tableware and cooking gear, including Man Law barbecuing tools. Long a bastion for the cooking crazed, J.F. Henry (West Seattle, 4445 California…
Where to Get Luxe Lighting
Seattle and Bellevue shops where you can score glam lighting to the max
Hansen Lamp Shade (Lake City, 10706 Lake City Way NE; 206.363.1635) has been lighting up Seattle since 1937, and it is still the place to go for restoration and repair of your loved lights old or new, and for a custom hand-sewn shade. Not to mention, it has 3,000 shades at the ready; you’re welcome…
Stores in Seattle with Artful Accents
Score signed prints by local artists, such as Aki Sogabe’s glorious kirie (paper cutting) of a cherry-blossom-swathed Space Needle ($30), handsomely framed at The Art Study (University Village, 4630 Village Court NE; 206.525.2400), which also has some beautiful bric-a-brac, including magnifying glasses ($14.95). C. Michele Interiors (Mercer Island, 7605 SE 27th St., Suite 102; 206.453.4771)…
The Best Home Decor Shops in Seattle
Where to find great goods for every room in the house
Seattle and the Eastside certainly have their fair share of home shops–everything from lighting and green goods, to midcentury modern stores and consignment. We’ve rounded up the best of the best in each category so you can browse away and find the right shop for your need (or want) Modern Design Store Artful Accents Luxe…
Cookies on Capitol Hill: Hello Robin Wows
!–paging_filter–pRobin Wehl Martin opened her adorable blue- and white-trimmed jewel-box cookie shop Hello Robin em(522 19th Ave. E; 206.735.7970; a href=”http://www.hellorobincookies.com” target=”_blank”hellorobincookies.com/a)/em last December on the “it” corner of a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/capitol-hill-19th-new-12th“19th and Mercer/a, where she quickly fueled a brand-new Capitol Hill crawl that includes gourmet mercantile Cone Steiner (grab a pint!), Linda Derschang newcomer Tallulah’s…
Buying Art With An Emotional Connection
A Madrona art collection holds its own against a Lake Washington vista
The Madrona home that Alex Landes shares with her partner, Chris Koehler, boasts a stunning view of Lake Washington, with Mount Baker and Mount Rainier visible in the distance. But equally eye-catching is the art collection, which Landes has been amassing for the past 15 years. A local real estate developer and former owner of…