The last remodeling project (maybe)
It may be the first New Year’s resolution in my life that I actually and fully completed. On Jan. 1 this year, I vowed this would be the year that we finally remodeled my bathroom, which I likened to a Greyhound bus station pit stop in a column I wrote for the magazine’s December/January issue.


A traditional French country home graces the Domaine Margelle Vineyards near Silverton.
Julie Olson turned an urban church into a personal sanctuary and filled it with her Moroccan treasures, including 12-foot camel doors.
I have waited all year for this moment. I uncover the fire pit, dry off the chairs, pull out the cushions and begin the long road to recovery from the interminable winter and spring. Summer finally has come back to me.


Old World mixes with country contemporary in a Gearhart cottage. The owners’ shop, Sesame and Lilies in Cannon Beach, shares a distinctive aesthetic with their home.
Oregon’s eastern high desert has captivated me since I first stepped foot in the state more than eight years ago.
A collector turns her Cannon Beach home into a homage to nursing.