residential longings

As seen this morning at Bedlam Coffee in Belltown where the whole staff is sworn to secrecy as to who roasts their espresso beans: it’s strictly hush-hush, and they won’t tell you the reason or even if it’s a local roaster. Quirky!

Crutches and loft-viewing don’t always pair perfectly. Sometimes we must let others be our eyes. As seen earlier this week at a new listing on Capitol Hill. 

Walking home from the office this evening, I was stopped short by the multitude of hot pink blossoms on a rhododendron tree in front of the Presbyterian church on the corner of Harvard and Howell. While gazing up close at it, one of these God’s eyes winked at me through the blooms, sort of startling [...]

In Seattle, air-conditioning is a rare find. Instead, on a warm day, we must resort to opening up all the windows. As seen this past week at the Pike Place Market during an especially nice day. 

So important are mothers that scores of their children went a long way towards diminishing the flower supply at the Pike Place Market this week-end in order to honor them. The flower vendors could hardly keep up, and everywhere one looked in and around the market, people carried their large bouquets away with them. I’ve [...]

Tomorrow, I am showing this one bedroom condominium apartment at Continental Place, a swanky Belltown high rise, one of the early downtown condos in Seattle. Life could be so simple and elegant here.  All high-end appliances in kitchen are under-counter. Sleek! 2125 1st Avenue, at the corner of Blanchard, overlooking Pike Place Market and Elliot [...]

Orange is one of those retro colors that has remade itself into something modern again. Orange is everywhere!   I am knitting an orange sweater right now because, of all the pretty colors in the bin at the yarn shop, the orange yarn is the one that got my juices flowing (ha ha! juices!). And [...]