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Brighten Up Your Home With These Simple Northwest Candlestick Holders

Brighten Up Your Home With These Simple Northwest Candlestick Holders

Notary Ceramics candleholders at Flora and Henri add a hint of hygge to the home

This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. As you look forward to more daylight hours this season, let these elegant, handmade candlestick holders in bone white ($32–$40), by Portland-based Notary Ceramics, add further warmth to your home. Find them at Flora and Henri (Pioneer Square, 401 First Ave. S; 206.749.9698),…

Megan Toal

A Seattle Woodworker Is Turning Bathtubs Into Works of Art

A Seattle Woodworker Is Turning Bathtubs Into Works of Art

Award-winning Seattle design studio NK Woodworking crafts one-of-a-kind bathtubs from domestic and exotic hardwoods, finished with a durable marine varnish.

Prices for the Lotus model pictured here start at $30,000

Danny Sullivan

Winemaker Charles Smith’s Leschi Home Is One For the Ages

Winemaker Charles Smith’s Leschi Home Is One For the Ages

Scandinavian influence makes its way through this home on Lake Washington

Charles Smith and daughter Charlotte cozy up on the expansive sectional in the main living area. A big change he made to this space was removing a glass ceiling in the dining room—“It made the room seem vast,” Smith says—and replacing accordian doors that

Virginia Smyth

Wild Weekend: Bear Watching in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest
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Wild Weekend: Bear Watching in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest

Get up close and personal with the Canadian wilderness by land, sky or sea.

The majestic Kermode (Spirit) Bear.

Seattle Mag

These Seattle Women Started a Fashion Company That's Changing How Shoppers Think About Size

These Seattle Women Started a Fashion Company That’s Changing How Shoppers Think About Size

Online clothing brand Universal Standard's new program program allows customers to exchange sizes that are too big or too small for new ones

The Talfer Cocoon Coat from Universal Standard

Nia Martin

Should You Become a Life Coach?
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Should You Become a Life Coach?

Five frequently asked questions, plus how to get certified in Washington.

Sponsored by Rich Cavaness and The Certified Coaches Federation The primary criteria for anyone to be qualified as a life coach isn’t a course as much as it’s the lessons they’ve learned from their journey, including victories and losses, frustrations and all the events that have given them the ability to offer perspective. Becoming a…

Seattle Mag

Inside the Floor-To-Ceiling Makeover of a Cozy South Lake Union Condo

Inside the Floor-To-Ceiling Makeover of a Cozy South Lake Union Condo

Finding the light in an urban Seattle condo.

Furry rugs and soft pillows layer a variety of textures onto the white surfaces of the main living space in this bright and airy condo

Nia Martin

Showcasing the Best of the Seattle Suburbs

Showcasing the Best of the Seattle Suburbs

This month's Editor's Note from Rachel Hart.

This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue, as part of the “Best of the Burbs” cover story. Click here for the rest of the story. My love of big cities is undoubtedly a direct response to growing up in a small one. Racine, Wisconsin, had a lot going for it back in the ’80s…

Rachel Hart

Seattleite: Brittany Nicole Cox Is One Of The Only Antique Clock Restorers in the Nation

Seattleite: Brittany Nicole Cox Is One Of The Only Antique Clock Restorers in the Nation

Repairing antique watchworks and vintage mechanical objects, Brittany Nicole Cox keeps in time with the past

Antiquarian horologist Brittany Nicole Cox, pictured in her Columbia City studio

Caroline Craighead

Seattle Is Turning Pockets of Unused Pavement Into Parks

Seattle Is Turning Pockets of Unused Pavement Into Parks

A city initiative turns little-used streets and dangerous intersections into urban oases

Pavement to Parks opened the Pine Street Plaza concrete park in November

Danny Sullivan

Take a Stroll Along the New Washington Park Arboretum Trail

Take a Stroll Along the New Washington Park Arboretum Trail

"This is one of the biggest moves in the Arboretum since it was created."

This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. The new 1.2-mile paved stretch of trail in the Washington Park Arboretum is still awaiting its grand opening — now set for April 8. But pedestrians and cyclists are already testing out the long-planned addition to the park, which has been underway for…

Megan Toal

A Seattle Spa Now Offers Grooming for 'Urban Lumberjacks'

A Seattle Spa Now Offers Grooming for ‘Urban Lumberjacks’

“This city has the men with the best beards.”

This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Elana Bruinsma cut her teeth as an aesthetician at an Aveda salon and spa in her native Colorado and, most recently, for five years at Seattle’s The Wax Bar before opening her own digs, Elana at Tangerine Spa Studio (Wallingford, 4421 Wallingford Ave….

Nia Martin

Sign of the Times: 'Rage Room' Is the New Place to Smash Away Your Stress

Sign of the Times: ‘Rage Room’ Is the New Place to Smash Away Your Stress

Plus: Our guide on where to go to deal with stress in the age of anxiety

This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. When it comes to letting off steam these days, there is no better sign of the times than last April’s opening of the city’s first “rage room”—a place where you can literally, legally break stuff. But that frenzy of fury might not be…

Gwendolyn Elliott

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