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Terrariums!

By Kate Bryant

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Winter Gardens

By Kate Bryant

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Life Style

A Portland couple proves that accessibility and high design can coexist.


By Amara Holstein

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Lure of the Local

One of Pietro Belluschi’s Northwest regional icons gets an update—from his son.


By Kristin Belz

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From Russia With Love

Oregon’s Christmas-tree industry falls hard for an exotic foreigner.


By Derek Pettie

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Plantwise: What’s Growing This Month

Autumn Attack Plan.


By Kate Bryant

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Family Circle

A unique architectural remodel on Mount Tabor envelops its owners in warmth.


By Amara Holstein

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Plantwise: What’s Growing This Month

Frost Fever


By Kate Bryant

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The New Victorian

A family of London transplants gives a historic house an eclectic overhaul.


By Amara Holstein

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Plantwise: What's Growing This Month

Fall kickoff.


By Kate Bryant

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Plantwise: What's Growing This Month

Blue Bonanza.


By Kate Bryant

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Urban Escape

A renovated split-level provides a forested haven of style for a creative family.


By Amara Holstein

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Plantwise: What's Growing This Month

Plan for Winter (Yes.)


By Kate Bryant

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Secret Gardens

With a freewheeling spirit and a small army of fervent plant geeks, the McMenamin brothers have casually cultivated some of oregon’s most stunning gardens.


By Kate Bryant

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The Architect

Kengo Kuma, 56


By Randy Gragg

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Plantwise: What’s Growing this Month

Plant Summer Veggies


By Kate Bryant

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Wishlist

Ideas for eclectic urban living


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Rich Living

Pok Pok chef Andy Ricker’s Southeast Portland condo is a casual showcase of worldly aesthetics.


By Amara Holstein

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Get Your Summer Garden Going

What’s Growing this Month


By Kate Bryant

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Flower Futures

Oregon’s nursery industry cultivates hardier times.


By Benjamin Tepler

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Street of Greens

A Portland economist discovers a link between density, greenery, and money.


By Geoff Koch

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Home Designer Q & A

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New Designs For The Times

By Amara Holstein

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Our 10 Greatest Homes

A virtual tour of landmark dwellings


By Randy Gragg

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Greatest Houses

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Jurors' Picks

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Lost Gems

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April: Sow Seeds!

What’s Growing this Month


By Kate Bryant

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Portland's Greatest Homes

The highlights of more than a century of iconic Portland architecture.


By Randy Gragg

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Spring Seeds

By Kate Bryant

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Portland's Ecotraditions

By Randy Gragg and Melissa Dalton

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Plant (and Hug) a Tree

By Kate Bryant

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Future Flats

A buzzing bike boulevard sprouts ambitious eco-apartments


By Georgia Perry

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Here Comes The... Sun

A West Hills Victorian beams bright with color, style, and warmth


By Amara Holstein

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Winter Tool Maintenance

Your Monthly Garden Tip


By Kate Bryant

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The Silver Lining

A bold downsprout design makes winter's deluge...fun?


By Georgia Perry

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Trading Spaces

A Portland State scientist takes his skills from NASA to rural Africa.


By Julian Smith

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December Muses

By Randy Gragg

Fall & Winter Cleanup

Your monthly gardening tip


By Kate Bryant

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Wish List

Ideas for an evolving home


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Home, Grown

A charming Alameda fixer-upper slowly evolves into one family’s dream home.


By Amara Holstein

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Allium Sativum (garlic)

Your Monthly Garden Tip


By Kate Bryant

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Palette Power

A Portland gathering of color specialists will choose the next big hues.


By Kasey Cordell

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Get ’Em in the Ground: Bulbs

Your monthly garden tip


By Kate Bryant

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Perk Up Perennials

Your monthly garden tip


By Kate Bryant

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Follow the LEEDer

Hood River’s renovated million-dollar middle school is a lean, green teaching machine


By Lauren Fox

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Flowering Maple

Your monthly garden tip


By Kate Bryant

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ID-ing P-town

Portland searches for a future in industrial design.


By Christian DeBenedetti

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The Simpler Life

A Buckman couple proves that life in less square footage is both sustainable and stylish.


By Anna Sachse

Trash Compactor

Allen Field spreads the gospel of downsizing your garbage.


By Teresa Mahoney

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Cole Crops

Your monthly garden tip.


By Kate Bryant

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Portland Palettes

How to choose wall colors for the Northwest light


By Rachel DeSchepper

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Pretty Shady Character

Handmade lampshades put the spotlight on long-lost slides and digital pictures


By Rachel DeSchepper

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Picture Puzzle

Mingle the highs and lows of your art collection by hanging it salon-style


By Rachel DeSchepper

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Center of Attention

How to create floral centerpieces to add some life to your party


By Rachel DeSchepper

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House of Harmony

Reenergize your home (and your life) with the ancient art of feng shui


By Xylia Buros

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Glitter and Glass

High budget or low, consider the bowl, the lip and the moment when choosing stemware


By Eric Gold

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Summer Blaze

Make your evening gatherings brighter and cozier with an outdoor fire pit.


By Emily Cable

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Into the Woods

Skip shipped flowers and gather local finds to fashion your own sustainable centerpiece


By Xylia Buros

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Slice of Life

Consider weight, price, and performance when choosing the best knife


By Jon Hart

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Architecture of a Season

How to design the structure, color and smell of a winter garden


By Sean Hogan

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Planting Privacy

Create a colorful living wall with a mixture of trees, shrubs, and ornamental grasses


By Ashley Griffin

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Small World

The ancient art of bonsai, made easy thanks to our climate and these simple steps.


By Alyce Legasse

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Tree Hugging

Select and plant a tree that will bring joy to future generations of Portlanders


By Kate Bryant

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O, Tannenbaum

Explore the festive possibilities—freshly cut or living, towering or dwarfed—of Oregon-grown trees


By Kate Bryant

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Down to Earth

How to grow better vegetables by making richer soil and choosing the best area for your plot


By Kate Bryant

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For the Birds

How to build the perfect house for the scarce Western Bluebird


By Rachel Ritchie

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Leafy Aspirations

Eat healthier by scrapping the iceberg and growing your own baby and microgreens


By Kate Bryant

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Reaching Higher Ground

Add height to your garden or outdoor entertaining space by building a freestanding trellis


By Lucy Burningham

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Friends and Foes

Bugs, slugs and bees you ought to know


By Kate Bryant

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Very Berry Blue

Shorten the path from the vine to the bowl by growing your very own blueberry bounty.


By Kate Bryant

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Herbal Infusion

Low-maintenance evergreen herbs add color, fragrance, and culinary possibility to any balcony


By Diana Hauer

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Fresh Starts

Sow your own slew of seeds for a vibrant backyard vegetable harvest


By Kate Bryant

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Dynamic Downspouts

How to turn the downpour into a delight by trading downspouts for stylish rain chains


By Jon Hart

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A Moveable Feast

Turn your backyard into a seasonal dining room with a classic picnic table


By Rachel Ritchie

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Down Home Dirty Work

Laying an earthen floor is smart for the environment, plus it's soft, warm, and colorful underfoot


By Jackie D'Antonio

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Backyard Baths

Get clean while helping your plants stay green.


By Jon Hart

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Playing With Mud

Trowel on clay plaster to give your walls a rich, sustainable finish


By Melissa Dalton

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Belles of the Backyard

Create a fashionable fresh-egg factory with your own brood of exotic chickens


By Jon Hart

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Green: It’s the New Black

Green up your final act by embracing your own biodegradability


By Zach Dundas

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Tooling Around

Don your own belt (or bag) and enjoy the endless thrill of DIY home improvement


By Ryan Baldoz

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Clematis 'Rooguchi'

Your monthly garden tip


By Kate Bryant

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Bathroom in a Box

Crafting a modern master suite for a century old home


By Amara Holstein

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Yards Apart

Six Portland households find renewed purpose for that familiar American space between sidewalk and front door.


By Camela Raymond

Houses That Make History

A historical timeline documenting the evolution of Portland's single-family home


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Market Madness

By Eva Hagberg

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Moving Through the Landscape

Path Architecture designs a modern sanctuary for two avid cyclists in Southeast Portland


By Amara Holstein

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Winged Wonders

Brighten your winter months by transforming your backyard into an avian paradise.


By Kate Bryant

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A Missing Park Block Returned

Three different viewpoints on the final chapter of downtown's longest-running saga


By Randy Gragg

Halprin

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Sand Castle

Two designers transform a neglected coastal rental into a light-filled paradise


By Victoria Blake

Bottled Bounty

Make the season's harvest last by following our beginner's guide to preserving


By Ashley Gartland

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Before the Finishes

Remodeling advice from the pros


By Jessica Pruitt

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Chic Revival

Bringing back traditional glamour


By Amara Holstein

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Honoring the Past

A couple restores a midcentury marvel


By Lisa Radon

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Blue Sky

One idea for a better Portland


Slow and Steady

By Lisa Radon

Desirables

By Lisa Radon

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Head to Toe

A local ceramicist goes global with her whimsical creations


By Lisa Radon

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China Futures

By Randy Gragg

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Home Alone

Portland's newest luxury high rises lack just one amenity: neighbors


By Kasey Cordell

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Cultivated Living

A family creates a sanctuary for birds, beasts at their hilltop Portland home


By Amara Holstein

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Holst Architecture

A bold new generation of buildings is changing Portland's landscape, the Holst is the architecture is the vision firm behind many of them.


By Randy Gragg

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Portland's Rising Stars

A tour of buildings designed by Portland's up-and-coming architects.


By Randy Gragg

Throw a Block Party

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Party Power

Sellwood neighbors build a block party into a civic tradition.


By Randy Gragg

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Building Blocks

A new generation of young architects is reaching beyond the expected to blend high density, sustainability, and thrift into a bolder breed of Portland building. At last.


By Amara Holstein

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Revisionist History

Inspired by the decorator even Martha Stewart seems to worship, a Portland couple reinvents a Southwest carriage house.


By Camela Raymond

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Life as Story

A careful eye and meaningful keepsakes make a masterpiece of a Dolphin Park bungalow.


By Anna Sachse

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Town and Country

A former carriage house in the Southwest Hills gets an elegant new life for a family of four.


By Anna Sachse

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Ready Made

To achieve superior interior design with minimal elbow grease, it pays to be a household of artists (or at least to know a few).


By Anna Hirsh

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Bring in the Noise

A family finds peace and quirky comfort in their Alberta farmhouse by surrounding themselves with art made by their neighbors.


By Anna Hirsh

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Prefabulous

Stylish living, straight off the factory floor


By Camela Raymond

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Coming of Age

An out-of-date split-level becomes a brighter, whiter, den of high style.


By Camela Raymond

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Green Acres

Think communes went out with the 1960s? Welcome to Cedar Moon, where the quinoa grows tall, Nubian goats mow the lawn, and life (almost) off the grid is sweet.


By Randy Gragg

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The Ripple Effect

Portland is the center of the green revolution.


Edited by Kasey Cordell

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Not in my Backyard

Invasive plants are out, native plants are in, and Portland gardeners are embracing their wild side.


By Stacey Wilson

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Good Buy

Hang your hat at one of the state's greenest homes.


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Lake Escape

"Remodel" would be an understatement for the overhaul that Bob and Stevie Burke gave to their spectacularly sited Lake Oswego home.


By Harriet Klein

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Perfect Pitch

On a Mountain Park slope, Litmus Design's modern twist on a Japanese lodge finds harmony with a plant enthusiast's 50-year-old garden.


By Camela Raymond

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Best of the City 2008

Dig into our surefire, gotta-get-cracking, must-do list of the city's most fabulous people, places, and things.


Edited by Brian Barker

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A Garden in the Forest

On a wooded slope near the city's most famous park, a private two-acre oasis blooms.


By Emily Chenoweth

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Club Med

Palm trees, a saltwater pool, and a gourmet garden make this Alameda house a private resort.


By Camela Raymond

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Liquid Lesson

A bright solution to a soggy problem blooms at Mt Tabor Middle School.


By Jill Davis

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Contemporary Craft

High-end modern furnishings and chic handmade decorative pieces put a new spin on Arts & Crafts.


By Camela Raymond

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Daylight Dapper

A Cedar Hills ranch loses its “’60s fright” look but keeps its sleek lines in the hands of two professional decorators.


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Inside Connection

Conceptual artist MK Guth and her husband bring the outdoors in with a savvy addition to their Mount Tabor cottage.


By Camela Raymond

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Greened Spaces

On September 19, Portland will trade parking spots for parks.


By Kasey Cordell

Portland Polemic

For Oregon natives who fled to larger cities and then came back, homecoming isn’t always so easy.


By Anna Hirsh

Upstairs Eden

Forget the farm. All you need to grow delicious heirloom tomatoes is a little patch of rooftop.


By Jordan Crucchiola

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Perennial Favorites

When lovers of salvias and slime molds crave a good book, they turn to horticultural publisher Timber Press.


By Jill Davis

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Against the Grain

A builder and furniture maker proves you don’t need an architect’s license to create a beautifully designed house.


By Camela Raymond

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High-Water Haven

Winter floods and financial red tape couldn’t stop an architect couple from building their dream cabin in Hood River.


By Brian Libby

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Haute Diggity

Need a boxwood for the backyard or a succulent for the sill? Look no further.


By Camela Raymond

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Milwaukie’s Best

A fussy vacation home becomes a stylish family hangout in Portland's most undersung riverside 'burb.


By Camela Raymond

Hedge Fund

The oak standing in front of your home offers shade—and cold, hard cash.


By Eileen Stark