May 2008

AREA: Hot Property

High Style: A new downtown condo tower offers an urban and eco lifestyle.

Category: NW Home Articles   The newest player in downtown Seattle’s bustling shopping and financial district is the 5th and Madison condominium tower. With a targeted gold star LEED rating, the 24-story eco-friendly building sports a plaza level green roof outside and, inside, energy-efficient Bosch kitchen appliances, wool carpets for easy breathing and water-saving solutions,…

AREA: Green Paint

Taking a break from poison paints.

Category: Green Living   Summertime is painting time, both indoors and out. Lead paint may be a thing of the 1970s past, but that doesn’t mean that today’s paint isn’t poisonous. Open up a can of standard paint and VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, come fuming out; inhaled, VOCs can really do a number on…

The Stylish Home: Summer Style

Kelley L. Moore’s pointers for poshing up your patio.

Category: NW Home Articles   With the days of consecutive  glorious sunshine around the corner, when the winter clouds roll back and that broad canvas of blue sky emerges, I’m reminded that it is time to bring the indoors out. In early summer, of course, Pacific Northwesterners still need to cuddle up when the sun…

Ultimate Coast Guide: Southern Oregon Coast

As promised, the complete guide to ultimate coastal destinations in Southern Oregon.

Go here if: you enjoy dune buggies and antiquing—and don’t mind a bit of a trek. Travel time: about six to seven hours from Seattle Feed Seymour at Darlingtonia Botanical Wayside A roadside preservation five miles north of Florence showcases one of southern Oregon’s rarest curiosities: the native carnivorous (it just likes insects—don’t worry) plant…