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Ask a Designer, Custom Residential, Interior Design

Where Should I Splurge on Design?

Remodeling your home, or building a new one, is an exercise in compromise. There will always be more money you can spend and more things that you want. So, getting the most out of your project involves knowing how to compromise wisely. So, where should you splurge on design?

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Dining Room Table: What type to you need? – Board & Vellum
Ask a Designer, Interior Design

What Type of Dining Room Table Do You Need?

When you’re in the market for a dining room table, where do you start? Would a round one work? Or a built-in banquette? Maybe a kitchen island? Or, an extendable leaf? Use these tips to figure out what type of dining room table is right for how you live in your home.

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What height of stool do you need? – Board & Vellum
Ask a Designer, Interior Design

What Height of Stool Do You Need?

What’s the difference between table height, counter height, and bar height stools? What does that mean in inches? You’ll be forever kicking yourself if you buy the wrong height stools, so make sure you follow these rules to get it right so you can still comfortably.

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Integrated Design at Board & Vellum
Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, News

All Together Now: Integrated Design at Board & Vellum

The benefit of an integrated practice like Board & Vellum, which offers architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture, is that all the projects we work on get better – even if they don’t involve all the disciplines. Here, B&V principal Jeff Pelletier explains why.

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Patterns of Place: What Helps Build the Places We Love? - Featured Image
Architecture, Ask a Designer, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture

Patterns of Place: What Helps Build the Places We Love?

What is it about certain spaces that makes them feel so great? Let's explore "patterns of place" – design features that help form the places we love. From location, to entry sequence, to passive systems, materials, quality of light, and more, these patterns help make that crucial switch from house to home.

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Tailor Made Custom Design Featured in Luxe Magazine: Complex Finishes & Pairings - Cropped for Featured Image
Interior Design, News

Tailor Made Custom Design Featured in Luxe Magazine

We're so proud of our own Alev Seymen for her contribution to this gorgeous Jules Thomas design project featured on the cover of the Fall 2015 issue of Luxe Magazine! While working at Castanes Architects, Alev provided the drawings and managed the project through construction, working in tandem with Klaus Toth of Toth Construction.

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Light and Day with CJ Brockway of Sparklab

For a few months of the year, Seattle is darker than anywhere else in the country. Living through it year after year, Seattleites have developed a special relationship with light, both natural and otherwise. How can we better take advantage of this special relationship in architecture and design? How can designers integrate light thoughtfully into their work? How come streetlights are so darn harsh? What’s Kelvin, and should we care? (Yes, we should.)

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