Modernizing her midcentury-modern home has become an intensely personal (and personally intense) project. VIEW
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Cutting your own Christmas tree: a day of family traditions on a North Bend farm VIEW
A trip to a Puget Sound-area Christmas tree farm can be a bonding experience. In North Bend, the families cutting down these trees spoke of...
Sea reefs and sunsets: Living Coral is color of the year
Pantone Color Institute names the 2019 color of the year.
Bridget Beth Collins, the Flora Forager, paints with petals
The natural artist from Ravenna still considers herself a beginning gardener, but her botanical compositions are blooming into big business.
Sure, you could buy a festive blooming amaryllis, but it’s so much more fun to grow your own
Here’s how to plant bare-root bulbs for dramatic winter-brightening blossoms.
A modern home in Mazama is designed to defend against wildfires VIEW
GETAWAYS: A family compound with room for kids, dogs, guests and plenty of sports equipment serves as a beautiful base for year-round recreation.
A family’s Ellensburg-area ‘cabin’ nestles into its surroundings to create a relaxed and recreational state of mind VIEW
GETAWAYS: The Kane family of Sammamish enjoys ‘the 509 lifestyle’ and all the active opportunities that go with it.
Jim Olson’s Tofino Beach House is one for the books VIEW
GETAWAYS: This B.C. retreat snuggles into its wild surroundings — and stands out as the cover of a new monograph on the legendary Olson Kundig...
Celebrating the joys of living smaller VIEW
Seattle author’s new book ‘Little House in the City’ — and a just-the-right-size home for twin sisters in Wallingford — answers questions of space.
What’s housework worth? $1.6 trillion a year in U.K., officials calculate
Britain’s statistics agency considers unpaid domestic labor a huge hidden slice of the economy, with transport and child care its largest elements.