Downsizing Made Easy

9-downsize-fw15How do you downsize a home with a lifetime of furniture, clothes and collectibles without the headache purging can bring? Donating your items feels uncomfortable. A garage sale sounds overwhelming.

Oregon Home’s Free Room Makeover

The winners of Oregon Home’s Free Room Makeover contest were the Probst family, a clan of four who live at the edge of a picturesque neighborhood in Hillsboro.

The Joinery Features Portland Art Museum Pieces

Whats Over the HillThe Joinery is proud to announce a partnership with the Portland Art Museum’s rental sales gallery. The Joinery will be displaying local artists work in our downtown showroom and rotating the featured pieces on a quarterly basis.

Colorful Smoked Trout Salad

Crave Salads? I do! A few evenings ago, I was having a salad craving — not my usual fare, but a new and exciting one…:-). If you love delicious, nutritious seasonal salads, check out my Colorful Smoked Trout Salad that I cooked up the other evening.

OREGON HOME ISSUE RELEASE PARTY

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What does the future of housing look like to you?

Come celebrate Oregon Home magazine’s timely issue and

the ORA Award Winners at this exclusive industry event with drinks, bites, music and prizes!

Recycled Glass (Yes, I’m Talking Wine Bottles!)

By Nancy Ranchel

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Does this happen to you? You go to pull out your recycling, and you notice the freakish amount of liquor bottles in the glass bin. You pause. You think about what the recycle guy (mine are guys) must think of you. You hope that instead of judging, they just wish you’d invite them to your next party. But you suspect they’re judging.

Garden Makeover On A Budget

To stay on budget, there were no design drawings, instead lawn paint was used to outline the pathway and planting berms. Our goal was to design a beautiful garden with a sense of order, while retaining the integrity of the surrounding woods.