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March 26, 2020 at 6:00 am

7 skills Seattle Times features staffers learned from YouTube videos while home due to coronavirus VIEW

From baking a Japanese-style souffle cheesecake to making trivets out of wine corks, here's what our features staffers recently learned from YouTube videos.

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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...

Bonnie Berk’s Seattle area garden features a stabilizing wall, steps and a large steel sculpture out front with layers of colorful greens, reds and a white hydrangea in full bloom.

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February 8, 2020 at 7:00 am

Bonnie Berk, an artist and a gardener, honors the architect’s original plan for her 1916 Mount Baker home, but has other ideas with her landscape VIEW

THE FIRST THING you notice about Bonnie Berk and Larry Kessler’s property in the Mount Baker neighborhood of Seattle is the formidable retaining wall. Accentuated...

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....

January 19, 2020 at 6:06 am

Why Harry and Meghan moved to Frogmore Cottage and now will repay the cost of renovations VIEW

Prince Harry and wife Meghan have agreed to give up their royal titles and repay several million in housing expenses, stirring up another sensation in...

Nation & World

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

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

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