Sow your garden now
Late winter is the perfect time to prepare for a productive spring garden. Learn how to get a head start on the season with this class from Dennis’ 7 Dees.
Hammer, nails, pints & pals
Here’s an improvement in home improvement. Say you need a washer for the faucet, some penny nails for the porch, or solid hinges so the backdoor swings open when you’re welcoming friends and slams with gusto when you’re not. You can pick up all that – and a beer – at the Cannon Beach Hardware and Public House.
Good Earth Home, Garden and Living show
America’s first sustainable home and garden show returns this weekend to Eugene.
Houseplants 101
Learn how to keep houseplants happy and alive inside with this free class from Portland Nursery.
What is your “home improvement” personality type?
When it comes to home-repair projects or tackling a weekend “honey-do” list, most homeowners fall into one of four distinct personality types. Which type are you?
Buy a dishwasher, save a marriage
When I arrived, I found dirty dishes piled in a precarious heap in the sink. This wasn’t just a few cereal bowls left to soak before a busy day at the office. Evidence of many meals consumed lay buried in the strata of plates, glasses and cutlery.
Portlandia: Where quirk works
To celebrate the second season of Portlandia, Portland’s Central Library is exploring some of the things that make the city special. Up first? Backyard chickens, of course.
Portland places
Aaron Voronoff Trotter illustrated the many different architectural elements seen around Portland and turned them into a set of classy playing cards. See the original Portland drawings as well as many more the artist drew of places of interest around the Pacific Northwest.
Send us your remodeling stories
I once was a fearless decorator. In high school, I painted a friend’s bedroom walls with an elaborate mural of strange creatures and visual inside jokes that only two teenage girls slightly obsessed with David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust days could find even remotely appealing.
The stuff of dreams
Oregon’s eastern high desert has captivated me since I first stepped foot in the state more than eight years ago.
