Everyone Loves a Complement

When it comes to color, it’s all about working together.

By Jessica Voelker

Kitchen Confidential

When remodeling the most important room in the house, it’s all about asking the right questions.

By Jessica Campbell

Farm Your Backyard

Just what, exactly, has your lawn done for you lately?

By Judy Naegeli

House of the Spirit

A Kirkland homeowner discovers the joys of living artfully.

By Jessica Voelker

Discount Decor on the Down Low

Local designers share cheap-but-chic decorating secrets.

By Brian J. Barr

The Bifurcated House

A Seattle art school’s founding family puts a modern face on a Ballard bungalow.

By Jessica Voelker

Age Is Arbitrary

Warm up a modern home with antique accents and repurposed pieces.

By Tiffany Wan

Dream Small

A garden shed can house whatever your heart desires, but a good building plan keeps things real.

By Jessica Voelker

Lighten Up

If winter gray gives you the blues, try these bright ideas from local lighting luminaries.

By Calise Cardenas

The Natural

A Seattle architect’s naturalistic influences resonate in the Northwest and the country.

By Fred Moody

Our House

Tara Graham bought Grace Schlitt’s home in Madrona, and found she fit right in.

What's Cooking?

Stock your kitchen arsenal before company comes calling.

By Paul Fontana

High-Style Tiles

Amely Wurmbrand uses mosaic and tiles to lend artful touches to her modern Shoreline home.

By Christopher Werner

Let It Float

For two Seattle architects, updating a Paul Kirk split-level meant honoring an artist in transition—and keeping the owner happy, too.

By Brian J. Barr

Prefabulous

Tom Lenchek’s turnkey cabins bring Northwest style to the prefab movement.

By Jessica Voelker

Diggable Plants

Whether you're all thumbs or green thumbs, these five shops will grow on you.

By Katie Zipper

Woodway Hideaway

An award-winning remodel transforms a "dark, hunkering block" into a high-style sylvan sanctuary.

By James Ross Gardner

Tomatoes from Another Time

Heirloom veggies take gardeners back to their roots.

By Bill Thorness

Super Natural

Bring the outside in with home decor and accessories that reflect the great outdoors.

By Laura Cassidy

One to Grow On

Architect Emory Baldwin’s Greenlake home puts his simple—yet revolutionary—design philosophy to the test.

By Christopher Werner

Home Tweet Home

You may not be Twittering yet, but your broker is.

By Matthew Halverson

Home Theater

Pb Elemental built a house for two Queen Anne actors to play in. But will there be drama with the neighbors?

By Jessica Voelker

Stage Right

Turn dormant flower beds into a winter wonderland.

By Marty Wingate

Second to None

No matter what you’re shopping for in a second home—peace and quiet, 
sandy beaches, snowshoeing trails, 
the best artist hangout—the perfect place to buy is only hours away.

By Courtney Nash and Crai Bower

Little Giants

South Seattle Community College’s dwarf conifers come alive in winter.   

By Roger Brooks

The Artful Designer

Chris Haddad brings to life the modern designs of some of the Northwest’s most desirable homes—when he’s not making sculptures.

By Peter Sackett

Light House

A Madison Park family tosses aside its traditional roots to create a modern home that glows.

By Naomi Zeitlin

Earth Movers

Thanks to our area’s climate (and microclimates), we can be the gardeners we’ve always wanted to be.

By Marty Wingate

The Bee's Knees

Attracting pollinators to your garden bears fruit come fall.

By Marty Wingate

The House Next Door

When a Capitol Hill family needed room to grow, they didn’t look far. 

By Roger Brooks

Humdingers

A constant food and water source and a secluded place to rest are all a hummingbird needs to call your yard home. 

By Mary Robson

Splish Splash

By Roger Brooks

Grounds Work

Beauty on the outside helps make the sale.

By Ashley Griffin

The Dirt on Grass

For gardeners who seek perfect lawns, the soil comes first.

By Marty Wingate

Glass Houses

The perfect summer host is ready to serve mint juleps, mojitos, and merlot. Are you?

By Anna Roth

Island Fantasy

With a little know-how (and many checklists), Denny and Holly Onslow found paradise.

By Roger Brooks

Ramble On

A Kirkland couple opts for reconstruction over destruction. 

By Peter Sackett

Early Bloomers

Send bulbs below now for a sensational show come spring.

Home, Sweet Haunt

The bloodcurdling past and spirited present of a grand old Georgetown Victorian.

By Nena Peltin

Practical Magic

Fun with form and function in a Ravenna bungalow.

By Jessica Voelker

Second Life

Kyla Fairchild finds a home for No Depression online, and another for herself on Camano Island.

By Brian J. Barr