Daily Find
The first Sur La Table store opened at Pike Place Market in
1972, filled with professional kitchen accoutrements that were, at the time,
hard for the home cook to find. Original owner Shirley Collins scoured the
world for the high-quality premium cookware and accessories that Sur La Table
has become synonymous with. In September, the company opened their first Seattle-area
store in 13 years at The Bravern, bringing to Bellevue their stellar product
lines such as copper cookware from French company Mauviel 1830 and the
stainless collection from Belgium's Demeyere.
By Alison Brownrigg | October 8, 2009
Daily Find
With autumn in the air, so
begins the time-honored tradition of celebrating the harvest. Although we're
more than a few miles from our rural roots, Seattle's got its own urban-style harvest party
at Seattle Tilth's Harvest Fair on Saturday, Sept. 12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can stock up on everything you'll need to keep your
garden growing into the fall and winter months, and
shop the Urban Marketplace for locally made goods such as soap, organic
clothing, honey, jams, jellies, teas and chocolate.
By Sheryl Wiser | September 11, 2009
Minding the Store
Is there a corner of your neighborhood that needs a retail revitalization?
By Alison Brownrigg | July 31, 2009
Daily Find
I enjoy buying art for my
home, but find that the poster tubes that protect my new prints soon start to stack
up as they wait for frames. The problem is, I'm a bit intimidated by frame
shops. There are so many options for molding and matting that I just can't pull
the trigger on a custom frame. But West
Seattle's new Wallflower Custom Framing may well be the shop to conquer
my frame phobia.
By Alison Brownrigg | July 21, 2009
Daily Find
It doesn't take a quarter
acre and hours of work to enjoy home-grown produce. A window box or small pot
on a sunny kitchen counter can provide culinary herbs to enhance your cooking
all summer long. Below are a few shops that can help you get started.
By Alison Brownrigg | May 26, 2009
Daily Find
Not only
are indigenous plants easy to care for because they are acclimated to the
region, they preserve the habitat for the animals, insects and fungi that are essential
to the ecosystem. Below are three local nurseries that sell plants native to
our region.
By Alison Brownrigg | May 18, 2009
Daily Find
Seattle is filled with great restaurants and fervent foodies,
so it's no surprise that we also have our fair share of excellent restaurant-supply
stores that sell primarily to the trade, but are also open to the public. Here
are a few of our favorites. We'd love to hear about yours.
By Alison Brownrigg | May 12, 2009
Daily Find
Have you ever walked through
an open house and found yourself oohing and aahing over the way the house was
staged rather than the house itself? Realtor and stager
Katrina Puetz opened Furnishments in December 2008 as a place to sell pieces
from her staging company. The store has evolved to include furniture, home decor and accessories from the community
at large as well as fellow stagers.
By Alison Brownrigg | April 15, 2009
Daily Find
I aspire to do many things: repaint my kitchen, wallpaper my bathroom
and reupholster some immense wingback chairs that are currently
catching dust in my attic. While I have the best of intentions to get
all those tasks accomplished, they keep getting pushed lower and lower
on my to-do list as things like parenting, working and sleeping take
precedence. When I do get around to reupholstering those chairs, though, the fabric will most definitely be coming from Bainbridge Blues, a Bainbridge Island-based textile company run by friends and business partners Liz Le Dorze, Mudge Mair and Frances Nunes.
By Alison Brownrigg | January 23, 2009
Minding the Store
Shop early for the best deals at the annual Rejuvenation Factory Seconds Sale.
By Alison Brownrigg | January 14, 2009
