Unique Homes

Recent posts on Sweet Digs Seattle: Peggy Loves Ballard South Seattle: Pushing Tin for $20K Less In the early 1900s a reaction to Victorian opulence and mass-produced furniture, the Craftsman style house “incorporated clean lines, sturdy structure, and natural materials”. Furniture maker Gustav Stickley published a magazine called The Craftsman, which featured original house and […]

Who writes the fluffy house descriptions?! Out-of-work poets, creative writing students, used-car salesmen? Bottom line: words matter. Real-estate listings, not unlike personal ads, are crafted to minimize blemishes and maximize perceived selling points. Decoding home marketing-speak can be just as complicated as figuring out what men really mean when they say “I love you” or

Today’s most popular home is located in Pleasanton at 6382 Paseo Santa Maria. With 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, almost 2,700 square feet and a huge master bath, this home is priced at $998,000 and has been on the market for 30 days. Zillow thinks this house is valued at $1,007,000 and the neigborhood’s average list

House hunting has made me bi-polar. The high of reading a listing describing my dream home and then the depression that ensues upon getting there and it’s anything but. Meanwhile, I’ve hired a therapist to help me forget about that perfect house I was outbid on, and that one killer deal I just missed. To

Yesterday’s most-clicked property is a landscaped house in Ballard that just hit the market 3 days ago. Looking at the pictures on this blustery cold morning, I was struck by the presence of pampas grass in the front yard. For some reason, that stuff always reminds me of sunny trips to Disney World as a