Movies: Small is Beautiful – A Tiny House Documentary

A review by Brennan Conaway

Jeremy Filming Small is Beautiful Dee williams ben campbellPortlanders love to re-think basic assumptions about house and home. We transform lawns into vegetable gardens, houses into urban farms, backyards into chicken runs, and change garages to ADUs. We are always re-imagining our city and how we live in it, always experimenting, so it’s no surprise that the latest tiny house film is all about Portland.

Remodeling Projects: The Last Stage in View

By Nancy Ranchel

11053135 462319800598810 2563522090048003458 nMy egg / yellow / closet room is finished — and there’s no better feeling than a project completed! (Maybe if a remodeling project wrapped up while I was sunbathing and Idris Elba was massaging my feet…) In this thing called real life, however, finishing a project is pretty much the pinnacle of accomplishments.

Remodeling Projects: The Last Stage in View

By Nancy Ranchel

11053135 462319800598810 2563522090048003458 nMy egg / yellow / closet room is finished — and there’s no better feeling than a project completed! (Maybe if a remodeling project wrapped up while I was sunbathing and Idris Elba was massaging my feet…) In this thing called real life, however, finishing a project is pretty much the pinnacle of accomplishments.

Decorate, Design with Salvaged Plastic

By Nancy Ranchel

P1000001Salvage in design is my thing, and industrial salvage is where my heart lives. But when it’s time to make a purchase for the house, I don’t discriminate against any type of salvage.

Music in the Garden

Need a picker-upper when you’re dragging through your Spring garden to-dos?