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Home of the Week: Summerwell Homes
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Sponsored by: Summerwell Homes Recently named “Community of the Year” at the 2017 Tribute Awards by the New Home Council, Summerwell’s 16 homes, designed by renowned McCullough Architects, reflect a contemporary design aesthetic with clean lines, open spaces, dramatic interior lighting from sensitive window placement, as well as a decidedly upscale palette of materials, fixtures,…
Top 10 Tech Transformations for a Smarter Home
How modern home design is taking the fiction out of sci-fi.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. The concept of the smart home is no longer reserved for sci-fi flicks and Jetson-esque cartoons, which just a few short years ago may have seemed lifetimes away. Increasingly more homes are becoming connected, intelligent, and changing the way we live our daily lives, moving us closer to the once fictionalized…
Science be Damned, Spiritual Crystals Are Making a Major Comeback
From home décor to jewelry, crystals are having a moment again.
Need to mend a broken heart? Rose quartz crystal can help with that. Or ward off bad energy? Try wearing a black tourmaline crystal. AJ Crecelius of NW Crystals (Ballard, 2221 NW 56th St.; 424.419.9789), a shop selling healing crystals since 2015, believes that the metaphysical properties of certain stones can help cure ailments like…
Tweet Retreat: The Perfect Urban Escape From the Social Media Madness
Finding respite from the endless crush of the news cycle along the shores of Lake Washington.
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I just need to escape The Tweeting. It’s too easy to become entranced in the early hour of the morning by a Twitter feed of disturbing nonsense. My “stable genius” is unsettled! Fortunately, I’ve found an antidote. Nature abounds in Seattle. On recent walks and trips across Puget…
Work-Life Balance? Now, It’s All About Work-Life Integration
Some experts say it's the real key to happy, healthy and committed employees.
It’s midweek on a glorious day in Michigan, and Joe Decker, a strategic account executive for Bellevue-based Limeade, an employee engagement company, has just finished a client meeting. Despite a full calendar and imminent deadlines, Decker decides to take time to visit his grandparents, who live in Michigan, instead of hopping on the first plane…
Seattle Companies Are Seeing the Benefit of Primo Parental Leave Policies
Staying home with baby—and getting paid—isn’t an anomaly anymore.
The Gates Foundation’s generous paid leave benefit, open to men and women, allowed Chelsea Minkler to stay home for a year after her baby, Nora, was born. Better yet, Minkler was promoted while on leave.
These Local Companies Offer Seriously Cool Employee Perks
Free coffee and soda pop? A basketball hoop in the parking lot? Those were yesterday’s office perks. Today’s employers are finding other creative ways to stand out.
Art immersion Sasha Barr paints a mural at Seattle’s Facebook headquarters; the artist-in-residence program gives employees a window into the creative process.
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