May 2008

May 2008

Green Grows Up
Home: Green Grows Up
No longer just havens for hippies, residential and commercial properties are offering habitats for work and home that are increasingly energy efficient and chic. Architects and contractors alike...
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Small Room, Big View
Home: Small Room, Big View
An obstructed view of Mount Rainier just wouldn’t do. The powder room to this Bellevue home goes from dull, cramped and restricting to striking and stylish with a view that takes the breath away
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Elegant and Effortless
Home: Elegant and Effortless
A serene design palette and sophisticated plantings create the perfect backyard destination in this garden, chosen for the third annual Seattle Homes & Lifestyles’ “First in Home and Design”...
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Life in Abundance
Home: Life in Abundance
Like a lakeside Garden of Eden, the landscape of this Bellevue home serves up fruit and vegetables—and even shade for salmon—but also beauty for its human inhabitants. The garden was designed...
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Lake of Luxury
Home: Lake of Luxury
A Kirkland couple looked to the water—and Italy—to design their dream home. Old and New World influences meet and coalesce beautifully as cozy beach house chic meets dazzling villa elegance
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Designing with the Stars
Style: Designing with the Stars
Louisiana-native and Los Angeles-resident interior designer Kenneth Brown makes his first trip to the Pacific Northwest to share design secrets with consumers at Seattle Design Center’s “Eye on...
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Best of the Northwest
Style: Best of the Northwest
Highlights from the 2008 Northwest Flower & Garden Show include edible gardens, condo-sized spaces, interior design strategies used outside, yard decorating ideas and more
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Leaving Las Vegas
Style: Leaving Las Vegas
What happens in Vegas—comes straight to the Northwest. Trends in home furnishings that have made their debut in Sin City now make their way into the hands of local designers and hit the stands of...
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Not Your Usual Wall Flowers
Style: Not Your Usual Wall Flowers
Walls are making a comeback and grasping the limelight, becoming blank canvases where the possibilities are endless and the options are boundless. Stencil your favorite Victorian design right onto...
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Natural Wonders
Style: Natural Wonders
Inspired by ice, earth, forest and sea, exquisite forms captivate our endless fascination with the world outside. These home décor products are not only made from the most natural of elements, but...
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What's Inspiring
Style: What's Inspiring
With spring in full bloom, many in the Pacific Northwest look to the garden as a place for renewal, entertainment and beauty. In the spirit of the season, we asked local garden architect David...
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Walla Walla in Springtime
Life: Walla Walla in Springtime
Wine writer Jake Kosseff reports on spring reds—syrah, malbec, and cabernet sauvignon—from Walla Walla, focusing on the up-and-coming wineries to watch
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Wine Gizmos
Life: Wine Gizmos
There are never enough ways we can serve, store or delight in our wine. In fact, gadgets and doodads of all kinds keep our wine cool, pop our corks in a moment’s notice and appeal to our clumsy...
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Uncorked in the Kitchen
Life: Uncorked in the Kitchen
A little bit of food, a little bit of wine, a little bit of laughter, and sure—a little bit more wine. For chef and cooking instructor Becky Selengut, adding wine to dishes enhances the meal
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Make Room for a Wine Cellar
Life: Make Room for a Wine Cellar
Of all of our most pleasing possessions, what could possibly deserve a room of its own more than good old vino? As Shakespeare said, “Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.”...
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