Brennan Conaway
Brennan Conaway is a valued writer for Oregon Home Magazine.
Elisabeth Dunham
Elisabeth Dunham is a valued writer for Oregon Home Magazine.
Photos from the Oregon Home 2015 Fall/Winter Issue Release Party!
Photos by Jason E. Kaplan
People had a great time ringing in the newest issue of Oregon Home Magazine. Now you can check out the pictures from the event.
A Day Of Almost Entirely Vintage Shopping
By Nancy Ranchel
My friend Shannon wanted to shop. I’ve written about Shannon before: we have good shopping chemistry. We like the same (alternative) stuff, we’re mellow, we know how important lunch is to the day. And coffee breaks. On this particular Tuesday, we met at 9:30 to get an early start. And we promptly discovered that most of the stores on our list don’t open until 11AM.
Our Fall-Winter 2015 Issue
Our Fall-Winter 2014 issue
The Future of Housing
How and where Oregonians live is changing to meet the needs of a burgeoning population.
Book Review: The New Nomads
Filled to bursting with bicycle trailers, high-concept campers, floating homes and domesticated shipping containers, “The New Nomads” is a great big picture book for architectural adventurers and a celebration of “temporary spaces and a life on the move.”
We Went Shopping for Your Home of the Future
Convertible furniture, Tiny Homes and cool stuff.
Building Smaller and Smarter
Five years ago, Erin and Ben Roby were living in a 2,200-square-foot, four-bedroom house in Hillsboro. “But we only used a portion of the house on a regular basis,” Erin recalls. So when the couple decided to build a house after moving to Hood River, they chose a prefabricated one-bedroom, 675-square-foot home designed by Salem’s ideabox.
Apartment and Condos: Learning to Fit In
Multifamily housing has come to occupy a greater portion of Oregon’s housing market, but many face challenges wedging into existing neighborhoods of single-family homes, sometimes incurring the wrath of nearby homeowners (especially when they’re built without parking).
