Home Design and Remodel Fair at PNA

The Wallyhoods have been dreaming and scheming now that Detached Accessory Dwelling Units (DADU, aka your garage converted into a mother-in-law unit) have been legalized in Seattle. To feed our micro-developer jones, we're heading to the Home Design & Remodel Fair this weekend at the at the Phinney Neighborhood Center: The PNA is hosting its 13th annual home design and remodel fair on January 31, 2010. The event runs from 10am-4pm in the Blue Building of the Phinney Neighborhood Center (6532…

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Wallingford Green Lake Garage Sale and Open Houses

Note the singular "garage sale". We're sure there are more out there, people unload their junk all year 'round, even January, but we could only dig one up to share with you. Open houses, on the other hand, we've got in spades. View Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales & Open Houses in a larger map Lots of fine homes out there, all waiting eagerly for your move in. We'd like to draw your attention in particular to 4333 Wallingford Ave…

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Welcome sponsor: Historic Homes in Seattle

Like we mentioned, we've got a small passel of new sponsors coming on board, so we hope you'll excuse the small passel of welcome sponsor posts. For this one, we turn our attention to HistoricHomesInSeattle, realtors focusing on vintage and historic homes. We're not going to talk about that at all, though. Instead, we're going to share a bit of the story we found on the "About" page on their site, which we find more interesting than complimenting realtors on their…

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Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales and Open Houses

Well, this week's map would be better titled "Open Houses and Garage Sale", because we've only got one garage sale. What's happening, people, you actually want to keep all that stuff? It's junk! Get rid of it! View Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales & Open Houses in a larger map As always, thanks to My Green Lake for assembling.

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Home Tour this weekend

The Grand Dame of Wallingford events is coming up this Sunday, October 4, the Wallingford Home Tour. Purchase a ticket at Stoneway Hardware, Tweedy and Popp or the Wallingford Neighborhood Office ($15 adults / kids under 12 free) and you'll get a map of eight homes around the neighborhood that have been carefully selected for their architectural distinction and their owners' sunny willingness to allow a parade of perfect strangers to tromp through their living rooms. We don't know which houses…

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Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales and Open Houses

Find below, in all its geolicious glory, a map of the garage sales and open houses going on around Wallingford and Green Lake this weekend, as ever, presented by Wallyhood and My Green Lake. View Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales & Open Houses in a larger map This week's Pick o' the Week goes to the sale on Densmore Ave N & N 47th St, not for the Tignanello Purse (although we are intrigued by its exotic name), but rather…

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Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales and Open Houses

As we do each week in happy collaboration with My Green Lake, we present you here with a map of all the garage sales and open houses around our mutual neighborhoods this weekend: View Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales & Open Houses in a larger map This week's Pick o' the Week is 2312 46th St, which provides an inventory of items in painstaking detail, including an "oil filled radiator" (we would have thought of a more appetizing way of…

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