My place: Jennifer Batten
A lead guitarist plays house.
How to add art to your garden
Personality blooms in the garden with thoughtfully placed glass, mosaics, sculpture and more.
Focus on fountains
Produced by the marketing department of Oregon Home
Add a splash to your home or yard with a Backyard Entertainment unit, a unique water feature with a lively display of LED lights and movable water nozzles choreographed to music that you control with a tablet, smart device or PC.
Stellar shelter
When Joe and Linda Kintz replaced a rotting gazebo in their Eugene hillside garden, they wanted more than just a basic garden shed. “We wanted space for storage, but we didn’t want anything ugly,” says Linda. “Those aspects came together in the design.”
Project showcase: Midcentury kitchen
Produced by the marketing department of Oregon Home
Suzy Vitello moved into this ranch-style home knowing the future held renovations. The kitchen in particular was in need of an upgrade, from the pea-green walls to the peninsula cabinets, which gave the space a cell-like feel. “A bank of upper cabinets cut us off not only physically from the dining room, but emotionally as well,” Vitello says.
Contemporary Craftsman kitchen remodel
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Elizabeth Epping adored so many things about her 1910 Southeast Portland bungalow, including the home’s basic layout and original architectural details. But the kitchen, which still had Montgomery Ward cabinetry from the 1920s and a closed feeling, needed a major refresh.
Birds of a feather
Bend artist Layla Coats collects twigs and rocks on her walks with her dog all around the Pacific Northwest. When she brings them home, the twigs become tiny perches and the rocks fit together as mini stone veneers.
May veggie gardening tips class
The weather’s nice, and you want to get out and grow some veggies! But where to start? Portland Nursery is putting on a refresher course on what do to in May in the vegetable garden this Saturday.
Scrap fabric, pillows and summer
What to do when the sun comes out and you can see how dirty your house is? First, you could clean. Second, you could get out of the house until it is too dark to see all the dust and hairballs floating around and save yourself some grief and work. You can probably guess which path I take.
