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James Steel has done a whole-house renovation project on a midcentury Northwest contemporary that was unique among the older turn-of-the-century homes in the neighborhood. living room 212848

April 4, 2020 at 7:00 am

Connections come together in the whole-house remodel of a 1958 Tacoma home that retains and respects its midcentury roots VIEW

THERE ARE FAMILY HOMES … and then there is Mark and Gayle's beautifully remodeled home in Tacoma’s Proctor District — which could have turned out...

Lake Union House Boat. Heron House Boat. Lake Union. Seattle, Washington. Chadbourne + Doss Architects. Dyna Builders.

March 28, 2020 at 7:00 am

Brand-new floating home on Lake Union with amazing views, inspired by the Great Blue Heron VIEW

GREAT BLUE HERONS alight — a lot — along this glistening stretch of Lake Union. Could be the impressive fishers simply have landed on the...

Zachary’s new bathroom “had been a long, skinny one,” Ty Warren says, and now has room for a new window, the washer and dryer (which used to be in the kitchen), and lots and lots of cool dinosaur decor. “We wanted to keep the laundry upstairs,” Ty says. “We actually designed this as two separate rooms, but once I demoed everything and we started laying stuff out, I went, ‘That’s going to make two really small rooms.’ This works.” (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

March 21, 2020 at 7:00 am

Your Place: With more heartwarming sentimentality than DIY experience, a Kenmore man updates his childhood home for his own family VIEW

SO MUCH IS so sweet here — with virtually zero DIY experience, but decades of memories and dreams (and only two trips to the ER),...

In the master bathroom “2 Knockin on Heaven’s Door” by Lesley Frenz hangs over the tub. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

February 22, 2020 at 7:00 am

A Madrona home gets an artistic remodel, and the results are sublime VIEW

Sarah Hurt started her International District business two or so years ago, “with two goals in mind,” she says: “to advocate for local artists, and...

NWLIVING WOOD HOME – LAKE FOREST PARK – 010820; Roger Wallace is the owner and architect of this Lake Forest Park home who has filled the interior with interesting wood furniture. exterior 211974

February 15, 2020 at 7:00 am

This forested home in Lake Forest Park is a (hands-on!) display of woods of the world VIEW

WE’VE ALL HEARD about that eager-beaver woodchuck who absolutely would chuck all the wood, if he could. Good thing he couldn’t. Because here’s how much wood architect...

Wed. November 20, 2019. NwLivingWest Perched on West Seattle’s northeast-facing bluff, the design centers around a stunning view of Seattle. Rooftop deck 211767

February 1, 2020 at 7:00 am

How a modern home in West Seattle evolved, and improved, over time and through redesign VIEW

“OUR STORY WITH this house is kind of a long one,” says Megan, standing in the warm, wide-open kitchen of the modern new home she...

The office, seen in this Snoqualmie home’s interior redesign, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. 211766

January 25, 2020 at 7:00 am

How ‘What if we turned the playroom into a media room?’ stretched into a high-end, whole-house interior remodel on Snoqualmie Ridge WATCH

THE ORIGINAL THREAD was a single strand — a simple string of vision and possibility. Kenny really wanted to hold a Super Bowl party downstairs....

The master bedroom opens to an upstairs deck, with a propane fireplace and glass railings. There’s another, more public, deck on the lower level, with access to the lake, and LED lights under warm cedar soffits. “When she’s entertaining at night, it glows,” says designer/builder Kent Perry, who lives in a houseboat with his partner, Todd Filer, on the same dock. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

January 18, 2020 at 7:00 am