Meet the Designer
Portland-area designers serve up style and imagination to support Molly’s Fund Fighting Lupus.
The Details of Fine Craft
When it comes to kitchen design, a handcrafted cutting board might not be the first thing that comes to mind, but Jeremy Graham at Black Canyon Woodworks knows that the details are where a home comes alive.
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Guest Contribution
One of the many enjoyable parts of our jobs here at Contract Furnishings Mart is the ability to keep a pulse on the trends happening in the industry.
Repair Café
By Nancy Ranchel
One of Portland’s coolest groups of people got together, again – the Repair Café.
Winning kitchen design
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Janel Campbell, design consultant at Neil Kelly Company, knows what makes a kitchen fabulous. “Great kitchen design is about function foremost,” the avid home chef says. Starting with that focus, Campbell creates stunning kitchens, including the condo remodel that garnered her top local prize in the 2010-2012 Sub-Zero and Wolf Kitchen design contest.
WILLCO employees have a shared passion for quality work
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Drive through any of Portland’s neighborhoods and WILLCO’s work is on display. You’ll find it in the glorious historic exterior restoration of The Governor Hotel, the award-winning bathroom remodel in a Laurelhurst neighborhood craftsman home, a Westmoreland dormer master suite addition and in the dual, seven-story Columbia River condominium paint job in Vancouver. That’s because WILLCO, founded nine years ago, is one of the go-to businesses when clients want top quality remodeling, painting and restoration.
In hot water
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Herb Heagh-Arvitt was committed to finding an energy efficient solution for heating water, but his electric heat pump water heater was not doing the trick. He hit the ceiling when his system took nearly all day to recover enough hot water for his guests to get a shower.
Children’s book author Heather Vogel Frederick
Heather Vogel Frederick is best known for the Mother-Daughter Book Club series. She writes from her home office in Portland’s Garden Home neighborhood.
Metalwood Salvage
I recently found out about a great salvage and scrap place in Portland called Metalwood Salvage. They make furniture out of salvage to sell at reasonable prices.
Repair cafe
Portland has been missing something. A place that everyone needs and needs to love- a Repair Café. These cafés exist in Europe, where people stop by the venue on designated nights to have a coffee and get their toasters repaired. Or the hole in their sweater darned, or perhaps a ripped piece of drapery fixed. Like-minded citizens volunteer their services and skills in an effort to keep goods in good working order and out of the landfill.
