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2 months ago | 
portraitmagazine.com | Donna Pizzi |Michael Clifford
It’s unusual for an interior designer to have spent two decades getting to know their prospective client. However, Susan Marinello of Susan Marinello Interiors experienced that when a dear family friend’s brother and his wife purchased a 1960s Lake Washington home that they wanted transformed into a contemporary traditional one.
“I admit, I felt particularly protective, excited and highly motivated to help them,” says Marinello.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
portraitmagazine.com | Donna Pizzi |Cody Ulrich
This Historic 1913 Laurelhurst Tudor perched on the shores of Lake Washington, was taken under wing by Beth Dotolo of Seattle’s Pulp Design Studios and transformed by replacing a recent hyper-trendy makeover with a more artful aesthetic. The previous owners had wisely updated the kitchen with modern-day amenities, but their choice of a Legacy Grand design overflowing with glitzy gold and crazy pattern on patterns throughout did not suit her clients’ taste.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
finehomebuilding.com | Donna Pizzi |Slide-By House |Abby Cote
When in 2004 we bought this 1909 bungalow in Portland, Oregon, it was so dilapidated that the house inspector asked us if we knew what we were getting into. We could envision what it could become, though, because we work as a writer/stylist and photographer team for OHJ and other shelter magazines. We poured time, money, and sweat equity into the bungalow remodel.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
portraitmagazine.com | Donna Pizzi |David Papazian
When a young family with a spunky French Bulldog purchased this 1940s Colonial Portland home, they decided to move into it first before determining how to modernize it. “After living there with all our previous furnishings,” says the homeowner, “we found it very closed off and uncomfortable.”
Looking for a fresh start, they took a friend’s recommendation to contact Joelle Nesen of Maison, Inc.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
portraitmagazine.com | Donna Pizzi |Andrew Giammarco
For a couple accustomed to entertaining large numbers of guests indoors and out in their former suburban home, downsizing to an unfinished urban retreat overlooking Lake Washington clearly presented a design challenge.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
portraitmagazine.com | Donna Pizzi |Benjamin Benschneider
Stepping outside her comfort zone, a talented artist of a certain age knew she wanted three things in her new lakeside home: to live surrounded by art amidst a landscape interspersed with gardens and courtyards, and all on a single floor. Other levels were reserved for family or eventually a caregiver, with a lush rooftop garden reachable by elevator.
Schultz Miller project manager David Broder recommended John DeForest of DeForest Architects for the job.
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May 8, 2024 | 
portraitmagazine.com | Donna Pizzi |Aaron Leitz
“It’s a ‘Renovation,’ not a ‘Restoration,’” say the new owners, describing the extraordinary undertaking to update Seattle’s once notorious “Pink Palace.” Built in 1910 and updated in 1922 by the noted Seattle architectural firm of Bebb & Gould for Elijah Grammer, a Washington State Senator from 1932-33, the home’s costly 1922 renovation added the stately staircase with bronze balustrade and enclosed the northeast terrace to become the library.
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May 8, 2024 | 
portraitmagazine.com | Donna Pizzi |Kevin Scott
From the moment you set foot in this modern Union Bay home created by architects Stuart Silk and Amanda Cavassa, partners of Silk Cavassa Marchetti Architecture & Interiors, you are struck by the design and engineering feat of its central staircase. “Stunning are the sleek, dramatic dark wood railings and stone steps that rise like a solid ribbon ascending through the floors,” says Silk. What began as something with asymmetrical curves, adds Cavassa, quickly became an engineering challenge.
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May 8, 2024 | 
portraitmagazine.com | Donna Pizzi |Miranda Estes
A desire to turn a 1.5-acre garden from a vast expanse of sometimes boggy grass into something more suitable for a family of five with three very active children, the homeowners turned to the Seattle landscape architectural firm of Land Morphology and its CEO and President, Richard Hartlage. “Richard designed a series of different garden spaces around the house that make you feel embraced by nature – the plants, trees and mountains,” says the homeowner.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
portraitmagazine.com | Donna Pizzi
After earning an Art History degree from University of Oregon, and years spent working in a San Francisco art gallery, Linda Falvey returned home to Portland a single woman passionate about transforming a 1961 hillside home in need of work, into a Midcentury gem.
A friend recommended Erik Ostmo of Ostmo Construction, who, in turn, suggested Arlene Lord of Lord Interior Design with whom he had often collaborated, to undertake the project.
