Lauren Mang
Get Happy: The Jonathan Adler Online-Only Warehouse Sale is Coming
Score happy-chic finds for up to 70 percent off
Get ready for one whale of a sublime sale: Jonathan Adler, the purveyor of colorful and quirky goods including pottery, furniture, lighting, home accessories and just about anything else you’d need to spruce up your digs in high style, is hosting its online-only warehouse sale from Thursday, July 17 to Tuesday, July 22. Key in…
Congrats, You’re Automatically Married!
Monday, June 30 marks the day when most same-sex domestic partnerships change over to marriages
On the heels of yesterday’s 40th annual Pride Parade, many same-sex couples in state-registered domestic partnerships (unless one person in that domestic partnership is over the age of 62) woke up today as husband and husband/wife and wife. The change in marital status for same-sex domestic partners is an element of the 2012 Washington state…
Nine Local Homes with Stunning Entertaining Spaces
Beautiful homes made for throwing parties
Summer is officially in full swing, which means it’s high time for barbecues, s’mores near the firepit, breezy gatherings on the terrace and daytime picnics that transition into nighttime fireworks-watching parties. These nine to-die-for homes in and around Seattle (corralled courtesy of Seattle-based Porch.com), have their entertaining space designs down to a rarefied art. And…
Seattle’s Porch.com Simplifies the Home Renovation Process
Tackling a bathroom renovation? Want to see what your neighbor did with hers—and what she paid? Sign up for the Eastlake-based home improvement site Porch.com, the brainchild of CEO Matt Ehrlichman, to search a database of more than 1.5 million professionals—plumbers, carpenters, interior decorators—to find the right person to take on your task. In grand…
Who’s Ready to Drink on a Rooftop at Seattle Magazine’s Red, White & Brew?
If you missed last year’s spectacular tasting event that was thee hot ticket of the summer, you have another chance. Red, White & Brew, a fete jam-packed with Washington wines, beer from local breweries, cocktails from Hendrick’s Gin and eats galore, is back for the third year and this time it’s taking place on Friday,…
Gorgeous Wall Coverings and Patterns Pop in this Queen Anne Home
A Queen Anne Craftsman veers bold with an elegant mix of motifs
When designer Beth Dotolo, co-owner of Ballard firm Pulp Design Studios, known for its richly layered and sophisticated style, proposed that most of the walls—and some ceilings, too—inside Geoff and Audrey Kozu’s stately Queen Anne abode be festooned with patterned wall coverings, the couple didn’t bat an eye. “They were fearless—a designer’s dream,” Dotolo says….
The Au Naturel Accent Table Your Living Room Needs Now
Spruce up the living room with the sturdy Fuller tree stump table made of Douglas Fir ($925–$1,050) from Seattle furniture maker Meyer Wells. This reclaimed wonder sports a top that’s been scorched using the Japanese charring technique shou sugi ban, which creates a rot-resistant charcoal barrier and intensifies the grain details on the stump’s surface,…
New Book from ‘Treehouse Masters’ Star Explores Tree House Design
If you see yourself living in elevated environs, mingling with the wrens and swinging with the sparrows, a tree house might just be your bag. Pete Nelson, tree house designer, builder, owner of Fall City-based Nelson Treehouse and Supply and host of Animal Planet’s television show Treehouse Masters, has penned his sixth book on the…
Vote now for Seattle Magazine’s Best of 2014 Readers’ Choice Awards
VOTE NOW!Our annual year-in-review story in December is always packed with editors’ picks for the best our city has to offer. But you also have a say: Vote for your favorites—everything from takeout joints to pool halls—in the Best of 2014 Readers’ Choice poll. Cast your vote on our Facebook page here by Monday, July…
Totokaelo’s Jill Wenger Featured in T Magazine
Jill Wenger, the owner of men’s, women’s and home accessories boutique Totokaelo on Capitol Hill, gave some serious Seattle shout-outs in a recent interview with the New York Times‘ T Magazine. In it, she praises Spinasse and Bar Sajor as two of her favorite nosh spots as well as Il Corvo for lunch and Mr….
Road Trip! 24 Hours in Vancouver
I just boarded the BoltBus for my 24-hour media road trip to Vancouver, courtesy of Tourism Vancouver. On tap for this whirlwind tour is a local beer flight tasting at the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park (I’ve never been and am told my usual footwear choices will not be acceptable for that trek), dinner atop Grouse…
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