If the islands of your dreams harbor cooktops and prep sinks rather than ships, you may be primed for words of wisdom about kitchen center islands. Oregon Home talked with three kitchen designers and an architect about how to navigate through the choices you need to make – height? width? shape? in-island appliances – to end up with a kitchen icon that cooks.
Tired of the patch of sod next to that helicab landing concrete square of a patio that rates as your backyard? Before you schlep home new plants from your favorite nursery, do a bit of planning. Oregon Home talked with a garden designer, a landscape architect, two landscapers and a water feature designer to get to the root of what makes for a backyard makeover success.
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“There are a lot of connections between furniture and sculpture, such as the importance of the finish details and the need to be accurate,” Karma Lloyd and Bill Simmons create Organic Industrial style furniture, so called because of the combination of wood and metal.
“There are a lot of connections between furniture and sculpture, such as the importance of the finish details and the need to be accurate,” Karma Lloyd and Bill Simmons create Organic Industrial style furniture, so called because of the combination of wood and metal.
Gloria Kelman creates works of art with silver clay. It doesn’t feel like silver when you’re shaping it,” she says. “But, when you’re done there’s this A-Ha! moment when you take it out of the kiln and hear that metal clink.”
Gloria Kelman creates works of art with silver clay. It doesn’t feel like silver when you’re shaping it,” she says. “But, when you’re done there’s this A-Ha! moment when you take it out of the kiln and hear that metal clink.”
There’s more to exploring Northwest Portland than shopping up and down the bustling N.W. 23rd and N.W. 21st avenues. North and south of Thurman St., when the vibe starts to go industrial, the pickings become more one-of-a-kind. Here are some of our favorite shops to explore after you tire of the national chains’ outposts and the hipster boutiques.
Herman Brookman (1891-1973) was a Portland residential architect who, during the 1940s, helped to shape the distinctive Northwest regional style. In “HERMAN BROOKMAN, ARCHITECT: THREE EARLY PORTLAND WORKS,” Henry Kunowski will offer an overview of Brookman’s career. The presentation will feature three Romanesque- and Byzantine-style Brookman buildings: Fir Acres, an English Country-style masterpiece; the Harry Green Estate near Laurelhurst Park; and the main sanctuary of Congregation Beth Israel. Pre-registration is recommended.
Embellished doorplates. Gorgeous doorknobs. Hand-forged pulls that delight your inner blacksmith.
