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Summer, when a person's fancy turns to - Energy Savings?

Yes, yes, and Yes, again! What's a better feeling than knowing you've cut energy costs and made your nest more energy-efficient?You can do It Yourself!The City of Seattle's downloadable brochure, Do It Yourself Home Energy Audit - A Step-by-Step Guide for Identifying and Improving Your Home's Energy Efficiency, delivers what it promises.... Read more

A Casual Shrub Border

(Written by Cynthia Creasey)Nothing beats the casual shrub border when it comes to easy of maintenance and creating a beautiful, year round, dynamic garden element that creates a powerful impact via a variety of scale, form, color, scent and flowers!A shrub border provides visual separation and a physical barrier that... Read more
Pablo Picasso. The greatest artist of the 20th century, and the Seattle Art Museum was host to a massive show of over 150 of his iconic works, on loan from the Musée National Picasso in Paris. More than 400,000 visitors came out for the exhibition, with some visitors having waited six hours or more... Read more

Is there such a thing as a "too small house?"


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The wonderful architect Sarah Susanka has done a lot to bring the notion of "living small" to American homeowners; not so much making do with less as making what you have do more.The leading gold medal contender for "making what you have do more" has to be architect Gary Chang,... Read more

The Cy Young Award comes to Seattle!


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We want to congratulate the 24-year-old ace of the Seattle Mariners' pitching staff, Felix Hernandez, on winning the American League Cy Young Award today!The vote for baseball's highest honor of individual pitching performance went: 21 for Felix Hernandez, 4 for David Price of the Tampa Bay Rays, and 3 for... Read more

Two Seattle baseball players win awards!


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This week, two Seattle Mariners won the Rawlings Gold Glove award: Ichiro Suzuki and Franklin Gutierrez! For Ichiro, this is his tenth Gold Glove award, behind only Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente who have won twelve each, and tying Ken Griffey Jr and Al Kaline for third place among outfielders... Read more

Congratulations to the Seattle Storm!


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Congratulations to Svetlana Abrosimova, Sue Bird, Abby Bishop, Swin Cash, Lauren Jackson, Alison Lacey, Camille Little, Ashley Robinson, Jana Vesela, Le'coe Willingham, and Tanisha Wright on winning the Women's National Basketball Association Championship!Thank you for an amazing season - undefeated at home and in the playoffs!And, of course, you champions... Read more

Seattle-Area Home Values Stable for 7th Consecutive Month


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The just-released Case-Shiller Index for October shows Seattle values at 149.26, virtually unchanged for the seventh consecutive month, providing further evidence that home values have stabilized in the Seattle area. After reaching a low of 149.03 in March, index values have hovered between 148.94 and 149.54, a fluctuation of less... Read more

Reflections on 2009


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Remember last December? Want to? * The economy was teetering on the brink of collapse. * Real estate values splattered. * The banking industry took a $700 billion bailout. * General Motors and Chrysler thought they wouldn't make it through the end of 2008. * Manufacturing was in the tank. * The workforce was losing... Read more
An Associated Press article from Friday points out what most homeowners already know - it still generally pays to own a home. Even though prices are down significantly from the peak, they're still worth quite a bit more than they were a decade ago. In Seattle, the median home price... Read more

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