Home In Ellensburg Featured In Magazine
The home of Bryn and Jon Widman isn’t exactly in our back yard but it’s close. The 1920s Tudor house is in Ellensburg, and it will be featured in the June issue of Country Sampler’s Decorating Ideas.
The boldest decorating stroke the Widmans used in renovating this home was to hire Ohio artist Debra Darnall to paint a 48-foot, 19th-century-style wall mural that stretches up the stairwell wall and around the second-floor hallway.
Mark your calendars
The annual Gardeners of Spokane plant sale will be May 7-10 at NorthTown mall. The selection will include annuals, perennials and a few vegetables as well as miniature roses.
Just a reminder
The Planting the Seeds workshop sponsored by the St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute is Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon, at the institute, 711 S. Cowley.
The workshop focuses on teaching people with physical limitations about options for solving their gardening barriers. Topics include tools for adaptive gardening, garden design and inexpensive solutions for barrier-free gardening.
Cost is $5. For information, call 838-7254.
For women only
A seminar focusing on clutter will be held from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Church of the Open Bible, 8303 N. Division. But this workshop, which includes brunch, involves de-cluttering your life as a prelude for organizing your home. The workshop will be taught by Peggy Jones and Pam Young, a team of sisters that travels the country giving seminars in controlling clutter.
“We go to the heart of women and help them know everything in their life is going to be all right. This workshop looks inward at getting your life in order,” says Jones. “We give women a new reason to come home.”
The workshop, titled “Feminar,” is $12.
Suburbia at 50
It’s been 50 years since the first veterans of World War II moved into rows of identical houses and created a community called Levittown on Long Island. A house in that first Levittown originally sold for $8,400.
And, while we’re talking suburbia, most of the housing stock in this country was built in the ‘50s and ‘60s “for a working husband, a stay-at-home wife and a bunch of kids,” Today’s Homeowner magazine says. As a result, new life- and workstyles require physical changes to the house.
Hibernation habits
How did you stay warm and busy during bad weather this winter? In a poll by Fannie Mae, the congressionally chartered mortgage company, 31.1 percent of respondents reported reading in front of the fire as their activity of choice. Watching TV and videos narrowly beat catching up on housework as the second favorite cold-weather activity.
Quote of the week
Comedian and TV star Drew Carey recently bought his childhood home in Cleveland, USA Weekend reports. Carey suggests it “if you have good memories of the place. I don’t think the Menendez brothers should buy their childhood home.”
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