by Marisa | Sep 25, 2009 | Architectural Features, Modern Homes
A couple of days ago, I received a call from Wendy Cohan inviting me to tour a new construction contemporary modern home they had recently put on the market. I love to tour all things modern, so we set up an appointment for the very next day. After I got off of the...
by Marisa | Sep 9, 2009 | Architectural Features, Listing, Modern Homes
Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world through the design approach. The site, building, furnishing and surroundings are creatively integrated into an interrelated composition. Frank...
by Marisa | Aug 31, 2009 | Architectural Features, Mid Century Home Furnishing, Mid Century Modern
A couple of weeks ago, fellow blogger Atomic Indy featured his amazing hardware purchase from Rejuvenation for his MCM restoration project. It got me thinking how fortunate us Pacific Northwesterners are to have a showroom right down the street. Then it made me...
by Marisa | Aug 26, 2009 | Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
I started following @Janus_Home on twitter a little while ago and the tweets were pretty entertaining; good taste in music, and there were posts with links to fun, vintage Craigslist items that they weren’t pursuing but (according to them) somebody should. The...
by Marisa | Aug 10, 2009 | Architectural Features, Mid Century Modern
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to take a little field trip and head out to Silverton to visit the only Frank Lloyd Wright designed home in Oregon. The Gordon’s commissioned Wright to design the home in 1957 but the cost came out to be around $56k to build,...
by Marisa | Aug 6, 2009 | Architectural Features, Mid Century Modern
John Yeon is credited with being one the the founders of the Northwest Regional Architectural style. One of his most popular projects, the Watzek house, was widely published and admired in both Europe and the US. It was deemed by House Beautiful magazines 1946...
by Marisa | Jul 31, 2009 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
UPDATE: THIS HOME HAS SOLD I had the opportunity (with permission from the listing agent) to take a tour of this amazingly well preserved mid century modern home designed by famous Portland Oregon architects Saul Zaik and Jack Shimshak (under the Zaik/Miller firm). ...
by Marisa | Jul 27, 2009 | Architectural Features, Modern Homes
The Northwest Regional Style was a popular building style in the Pacific Northwest from 1935 – 1960. The most notable characteristics of the Northwest Regional Style are wood framed construction, siding, roofs that were often left unpainted, floor to ceiling...
by Marisa | Jul 22, 2009 | Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
While cruising the local vintage store circuit the other day, I decided to stop in at Shag since I had checked out their website and it looked like they might have some interesting pieces. It is located on a small strip of stores on Sandy right across from the...
by Marisa | Jul 17, 2009 | Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
UPDATE: THIS HOME HAS SOLD I was out touring the new listings in Montavilla today and saw this cute little 850 sq. ft. mid century home built in 1950 that has a very modern design. It almost has a completely flat, slightly pitched roof and from the outside looks...
