3127 NE Rosa Parks Way

3127 NE Rosa Parks Way // $589,000 // 2,768 SF

Pristine Concordia Ranch exceeds all expectations. Immaculately maintained, this home embodies sleek mid-century details combined with modern day functionality. Main floor natural light flows across hardwoods through 3 main floor bedrooms and customized kitchen. Exquisite basement remodel; huge family room, laundry nook with cabinets/sink ideal kitchenette opportunity, two "bonus" rooms or future bedrooms w/ dedicated side entrance.

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Living room // Dining room // Kitchen

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Finished Basement

Brooklyn to Cully

A great friend introduced me to their colleague Christine, her husband Ian and their sweet boy Silas. This family of creatives living in Brooklyn were thinking moving roots to Portland. They put a trip to visit on the calendar, and I put together a tour to explore different pockets with them so they could get a feel for Portland.

There's so much to fall in love with about Portland and the Pacific Northwest, but the first day of their trip was not it. Through torrential downpour we drove across town while I explained the attraction and nuanced differences of each neighborhood. I figured there was no chance Portland's charm shone through the worst rain I've ever seen.

Boy was I wrong. They loved it. Over the next year they made the move west. They found a place in Alberta to rent and started exploring town. Once they had a good sense of where they wanted to buy their first home, the search was on!

Ian's background in design and architecture gave vision to the perfect home in Cully: hardwoods hidden under carpet waiting to be restored, a living room dying to opened up, and a finished basement with a separate entrance ready to rent.

Ian and Christine got a leg up on the competition as I spent time to build a relationship with the listing agent and understanding terms the seller cared about. With this insight, they were able to put together the winning offer and score a great home!

I work hard to fight for my buyers and get them any advantage I can in this sellers market. If you're considering buying or selling your home, I'd love to help!

Modern Portland Homes

Pietro Belluschi, Robert Rummer, John Storrs, John Yeon, Bud Oringdulph, and Saul Zaik led a beautiful movement of natural materials, striking lines, post and beam architecture, and vaulted ceilings all coupled with extensive window lines. They had a keen sense of good design and knew how to bring the outdoors in. Today, firms like Skylab Architecture, Works Progress Architecture, and Scott | Edwards Architecture are carrying this torch to push the limits of how a space fits into the environment and how our homes make us feel.

While my love of architecture is not limited to modern homes, there's nothing quite like warm wood, clean lines, and a wall of glass to bring nature indoors. 

 

Mid-Century Modern

Portland Rummer // Remodeled by the Segerholt's and featured in Dwell

With grey days from October to May, mid-century moderns staples of floor to ceiling windows, heavy doses of skylights, and open floor plans help keep us Portlanders happy throughout the winter. 

Mid-century modern was led by the belief that form no longer followed function. Homes should be built around families, not the other way around. Architects focused on simple design that brings light into the home, creates spaces for entertaining, and frames views of the yard and garden. 

Most of Portland's mid-century modern homes are scattered throughout southwest Portland and into Beaverton. 

 

Contemporary

Arboretum Residence // Skylab Architecture

Portland has incredible architects that are pushing design. With a focus on natural materials and bold lines, they are creating amazing art. Homes like the Hoke House prove wood exterior and natural materials can still be used in Portland's wet climate.

A few builders like H. Hudson Homes are focusing solely on new construction of thoughtful, modern homes to fit a creative lifestyle. 

Most of Portland's contemporary homes are in fill projects in close-in eastside neighborhoods or found in the west hills. 

 

Let's work together

If your heart also melts over gorgeous modern design, we should be friends. I'd love to help you find your dream home, or help you sell your current home. Shoot me a call, text, or email to connect. 

Curb Appeal: Fall & Winter Edition

With limited light, lots of gray, and cold nights it's crucial to provide buyers a warm, bright, cozy home to fall in love with.

While there's less buyers searching in the fall and winter, overall home inventory is lower as well. Here are our basic, affordable tips to get an edge on your competition and to boost your homes curb appeal during Portland's colder months:

1: A Well Groomed Front Yard

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Help buyers to envision what the front yard will look like come spring and summer with a nice tidy front yard. The view from the front of your home is the first impression the buyer will get. Rake up debris, trim overgrowth, and remove weeds. Cold weather plants like evergreens and tall grasses can really help to liven a stale yard. 

2: Exterior Maintenance

It's important to show buyers that your home has been well cared for. Make sure to clean the leaves and debris out of your gutters that accumulated during the fall. A pressure washer can do wonders to uncover a beautiful porch and walkway that has been coated with dirt and moss. 

3: Outdoor Lighting

Now that the days are getting shorter, most buyers will be touring after work when it's dark. Make sure to invite buyers in with warm pathway and front door lighting. A series of solar path lights to the front door is inexpensive and a beautiful touch.

4: Go Full “Hygge”!

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Cozy spaces and fun decorations help add warmth to the cold. Touches like a neatly stacked pile of firewood against a wall and big chunky blankets on the sofa are great. Try flanking the front door with cold-hardy topiaries or hanging a wreath on the front door. Let's stay away from going overboard with inflatable reindeer, but limited white lights over shrubs can provide a nice cozy feel. 

Need help boosting your home's curb appeal? I'd love to sit down to chat and give you my ideas!

Construction everywhere: Know what's being built!

These days everywhere you look it seems like there’s a hole in the ground and a crane in the sky. I get asked a lot what all of this construction is, and more importantly..who’s going to fill it! Over the past few years we’ve seen construction ramp from multi-family (apartments), to commercial office, and now on to hotels. Multi-family has really lead the charge in Portland for the past few years, but commercial office has taken off recently.  

For commercial office space, Park Avenue West was the only real major new development in town prior to 2016 (the new Class-A tower that sits downtown just behind Nordstroms). Right now, there’s almost 1.5 million square feet of office currently under construction. That’s a lot! And here’s the interesting part, over half of that space already leased. That means a majority of the commercial space that hasn’t been built yet is already spoken for.

The latest piece to the construction puzzle that’s currently booming are hotels. From the new boutique Grove Hotel on SW 5th and Burnside, to Marriott's project on SW 3rd, to BPM’s project on SW Columbia, to the 16 floor Porter hotel on SW 2nd and Jefferson...they seem to be popping up all at once! While us that live here don’t realize how tough it is to rent a hotel in town, Portland’s been notorious as one of the hardest places to book a room and this new development is welcomed by many.

While there has been an enormous amount of apartment construction, new condo developments have been minimal. The Cosmopolitan was a true sign post to prove demand. The new tower on NW 10th and Northrup is now 96% sold, including the penthouses that went for upward of $4 million. The developer, Hoyt Street Properties, now has approval on Block 20 which is just north of The Cosmopolitan which will have 155 units ranging from 1 to 3 bedrooms (700 sf to 3,200 sf) on top of the ground floor retail/mixed use space. The design of a recessed tower allows for a massive community landscaped terrace on top of floor 4 and 5. Block 20 was designed by local architecture firm Bora and construction is planned to break ground in the 1st quarter of 2017.  Check out a few of the renderings that have been released below - this look like a perfect fit in the Pearl and well needed!

Aerial rendering of Block 20 from Bora architects showing roof top decks.

Block 20 rendering from Bora Architects with view from The Fields Park.