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Orchid Studio: A Tiny Backyard Getaway
A Crown Hill couple plants a little dream house in their backyard
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…
What’s Wrong With This House: Light-filled Magnolia Abode
This hillside home in Magnolia has been on the market for 193 days. Why?
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…
Seattle Magazine’s Top Doctors 2015
The 459 best physicians in the Puget Sound region as chosen by their peers
Stories by Sally James, Amelia Apfel, Sheila Cain, Elsy Pawelak Niki StojnicFor 15 years, we have asked Seattle-area doctors this question: To whom would you send a loved one for medical care? And every year, more than 1,000 doctors have taken time out of their busy schedules to nominate the peers they trust and admire—initially…
Instagram Inspiration: Our Weekly Top 5
Some fresh and eccentric variations on the potted plant thanks to the geniuses on Instagram
Instagram Inspiration is a new column on Seattlemag.com that explores our favorite Instagram themes each week. It’s hot. There hasn’t been much rain lately. Maybe your lawn is half a shade away from yellowish-brown. Maybe you don’t have a lawn at all. Whatever the case, it’s time to cultivate a little green where we can!…
Life in the Clouds: Cirrus High Rise Ready for Residents
The latest luxury dwelling to rise in SLU is stocked with every imaginable extra
Sponsored by Windsor Communities For the last decade, South Lake Union has led Seattle’s transformation and growth. With it came thousands of new workers eager for an urban live/work lifestyle. This month with the arrival of Cirrus, SLU’s newest and much needed high-rise collection of apartment homes along 8th Avenue, they’ll get the lifestyle they…
Instagram Inspiration: Our Weekly Top 5
Party planning ideas for the most festive Fourth of July
The Fourth of July is quickly approaching and we want to help you get your party planning in order. Whether you’re throwing a beach bash, chilling at a backyard patio party, or watching the fireworks with your sweetie, here’s how some festive folks are bringing the red white and blue to life. We’ve rounded up…
Tamara Codor’s Art Meets Home Decor
The Pioneer Square-based painter takes classical training to home decor
The spirit of the Renaissance hangs like gossamer on Tamara Codor’s art and furnishings, the legacy of time spent studying classical painting in the Loire Valley in her late teens. With business partner and furniture maker Sterling Voss, Codor creates decorative works, such as mirrors that reimagine 17th-century antiques (as seen in Bar Sajor) and…
6 Things Washington State Parks are Good for Besides Hiking
Get outside and get creative with these six ideas that go beyond the usual suspects
Sponsored by Washington State Parks There are hundreds of Washington State Parks–in all sorts of sizes (e.g. Posey Island State Park in San Juan County is a mere one acre) and with all sorts of attractions (think flaming methane geysers or tours of limestone formations). And while camping and hiking are perhaps two of the…
Floating in Luxury on Portage Bay
This contemporary Portage Bay houseboat features top-notch design and killer views
Peter Erickson knows houseboats. Founder of Northwest property development firm The Urban Fund, he has been a part of Lake Union’s historic houseboat community for more than 40 years, living with his wife and raising their two kids on a 1,400-square-foot property in Eastlake, as well as designing nine other Lake Union houseboats. In 2013,…
An Urban Oasis in Phinney Ridge
Seattle landscaper Scot Eckley creates a unique outdoor living space for a Phinney Ridge couple
After Jay and Katharine Petersen, an electrical engineer and a marketing consultant, respectively, finished building their contemporary-modern home on Phinney Ridge in 2013, they wanted to tackle the surrounding mismatched patches of yard—including a sloping, lumpy lawn. The couple brought in Seattle-based landscape designer Scot Eckley to help transform the hodgepodge into a reason to…
Queen Anne’s Pottery Princess
Mandy Shoger of Foxtail Pottery creates gorgeous clay dinnerware in Queen Anne
For potter Mandy Shoger, home is where the hollowware is. “Incorporating something handmade into your daily routine is so special,” says Shoger, who uses stoneware clay from Washington and Oregon and hand-throws custom dinnerware in her Queen Anne studio. “I think we’ve lost that in America: using products at home created by your own community.”…
Where to Shop for a Home Renovation Project
Interior designer Emily Lauderback reveals a few of her go-to shops
Seattle native Emily Lauderback, founder of interior design and remodeling firm Color in Space, started her company with a mission to bring design know-how, tools and proper color palettes to her clients. Lauderback says color is the thread that connects everything in a space. “And because colors are light reflected back to us, they have…
This Architectural Beauty Is Not Your Ordinary Vacation Home
Cascade Mountain home mixes green design with scenic backdrop
When Bill Broadhead and Julie McCoy found a piece of land just an hour and a half east of the city on Lake Cle Elum, they weren’t in the market for a mountain retreat. Broadhead was looking for a spot to build a snowmobile storage shed. But the site, in the Cascade Mountains near Roslyn,…
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