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Seattle Street Of Dreams - This is the Last Week

Anyone who likes to look at homes, especially homes they can’t afford to buy, this week is your last chance to see this years Street of Dreams. I went with 2 of my interior design colleagues from my past life. We love going through and critiquing everybody elses hard work, since we use to do the Street of Dreams! I don’t get many chances to be catty! Of course there were flaws but always much good. The settings were particularly nice and woodsy. There were not the huge long walks like last year where you could run a marathon on some of the driveways. Also the prices were down from last years highest of 5.5 million to just under 2 million.

We were told to look for the $84,000 Fountain. Is this it?……… NO! We did finally find it. It was very unusual, but just as I was ready to take a picture of it my camera had the gaul to say YOUR BATTERY IS EXHAUSTED!

Street of Dreams homes, though expensive, are generally a very good price for what you get. Many new products are introduced, sometimes at no extra cost because the vendors want to get it out and noticed by the public so they often provide them to the builder at minimal cost. Also they are always innovative and usually one of a kind, although they might be duplicated by the builder later (at a higher cost).

Most people attending are not planning on buying a home there but are looking for ideas and products or perhaps looking for a builder to build their dream home. This is a great place to do that.

The best house achitecturally and the most profession interior design job in my opinion was The Urban Lodge. The builder was Grey Lundberg of CMI Homes, Inc. Curtis Gelotte was the architect. Interior Design was by Schoenfeld Interiors. You can tell when the designers work with the house and the builder closely. Results are not pleasing or professional when they just plop the furniture in after all else is done.

I was perturbed by the fact that many of the builders and/or designers used too many different wood finishes in the same house or even the same room. One kitchen had so many it looked like a kitchen showroom trying show you all finishes. Some multiple finishes can work, but it takes great discernment and skill to pull it off well. It seems to be a fad right now, short lived I hope.

The Street of Dreams is open from 10 am to 9 pm daily. Quinn’s Crossing. Last day is August 19th, for more info click on www.seattlestreetofdreams.com

Posted by Kathleen