March 2007

Sweet Digs: American Craftsman

Recent posts on Sweet Digs Seattle: Peggy Loves Ballard South Seattle: Pushing Tin for $20K Less In the early 1900s a reaction to Victorian opulence and mass-produced furniture, the Craftsman style house “incorporated clean lines, sturdy structure, and natural materials”. Furniture maker Gustav Stickley published a magazine called The Craftsman, which featured original house and […]

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Berkeley: “French Country House” Far Far Away From Peaceful Provence

The realtor had set up a boombox to play music in the front room of this traditional home with a “French Provincial aesthetic” on its first open Sunday. The reason was clear: to mask the noise of the constant flow of traffic on Tunnel Road outside the room’s imposing bay window. Although apparently the legal

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Worth Every Ninety-Nine Million Nine Hundred Pennies (almost sounds affordable?!)

At $999,000 I would normally not be surprised that 1450 43rd Avenue has been on the market for 128 days. The difference is that when some remodeled homes are actually selling in the Sunset for over a million, this home has a better remodel than most of those that I have seen, and unlike others–has

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