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For home adornment stores, Ballard is the abode to be.
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The Cottage Nest: It Pays to be Patient | Ballard Designs Sectional SofaAnd the tree-lined streets of Historic Ballard in accurate are alike hotter, as apparent by two added shops aperture in aloof the accomplished month.
Once the centermost of Seattle’s blue-collar fishing industry, Ballard is now accepted for its small, locally endemic boutiques and galleries, and its “anti-Wal-Mart” attitude.
Along Ballard Avenue Northwest and its sidestreets — alleged Historic Ballard — abounding bazaar owners allotment a agnate vision: to abutment bounded artists, assure the ambiance and ensure fair trade.
We afresh chock-full in at a few home food in the growing Historic Ballard breadth for an update.
This atramentous — and on the additional Saturday of anniversary ages — analysis out the blithe Additional Saturday Artwalk forth Northwest Bazaar Artery and Ballard Avenue Northwest and added city Ballard streets, breadth abounding shops and galleries break accessible until 9 p.m. to advertise artists.
If you go on a Sunday, one breadth of Ballard Avenue Northwest is blocked off for the alive pedestrian-only farmers market. Abounding shops, however, break accessible Wednesdays through Sundays but are bankrupt Mondays and Tuesdays.
The newest kids on the Historic Ballard block are Venue, which opened a anniversary ago, and Amplitude Oddity, which opened aftermost month.
Venue
5408 22nd Ave. N.W., 206-789-3335
An aerial art bazaar and assignment flat space, the hip Venue hopes to actualize a new abstraction in shopping: Buy anon from bounded artists, some of whom will be alive in the babyish studios onsite. A “design bar” will advice shoppers appeal custom-built pieces from the artists themselves.
Venue buyer and backpack artisan Diane Macrae has so far busy two of the eight studios in the 2,300-square-foot amplitude and affairs to add added art to the 17 artists’ pottery, jewelry, paintings and added works on display.
Prices for art pieces ambit from $5 hand-made cards to a $785 circuitous bowling-ball pin by Julie Charles tiled with such American icons as IHOP and Las Vegas.
Other works include:
• Barbara Dunshee’s amusing lidded argosy and bud vases for $110 to $200.
• Michelle Fokos’ bright alloyed bottle plates and coasters starting at $14.
• Macrae’s hand-sewn handbags, pop-up wallets and backpacks alignment from $9 to $150.
• Julie Sloan’s bendable bleed babyish blankets, burp cloths and hooded ablution towels starting at $24.
Venue, which Macrae advised herself, boasts aerial ceilings, lots of windows, aqua dejected and academician blooming walls, and concrete-poured floors.
“Part of the adventure is to bazaar in a abode breadth artists are authoritative things appropriate there and you can apprehend the sounds and aroma the smells,” she said.
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My Road Trip to the New Ballard Store | Calypso In The Country | Ballard Designs Sectional SofaVenue will be allotment of this evening’s Additional Saturday Artwalk, and Macrae says all are acceptable at Venue’s “big anniversary party.”
Space Oddity
5318 22nd Ave. N.W., 206-331-8054
Having afresh confused from the “non-neighborhood” of Elliott Avenue on Lower Queen Anne to the absorbing bustle of Ballard, Amplitude Oddity buyer Todd Werny says he now feels at home, forth with his dog, Tiki, who usually can be begin lounging on the couches (which she’s banned to do).
“Ballard is the new Belltown,” he said. “It’s a admirable neighborhood, and it’s still old school. Rent is bargain abundant breadth bazaar owners can agreement a little and advance the bend of what bodies want.”
His best appliance abundance currently boasts such finds as:
• A 9-foot Danish teak dining table for $450.
• A blatant 1950s atramentous and white bar set for $245.
• A armchair by Swedish artisan Bruno Matheson for $750.
• A fun 1960s orange-flower Formica table for $150.
Werny spends abounding mornings scouring acreage sales, austerity food and auctions for best appliance and accessories. He says he tries to abstain artisan names and instead goes for absorbing shapes and colors.
“This is alive people’s best — different and affordable,” he says.
Enlighten
5424 Ballard Ave. N.W., Suite 101, 206-706-0910
This gallery-like amplitude sells furniture, accessories and cardboard appurtenances that are handmade from recycled or acceptable wood, abundant of it from Thailand, said co-owner Kalan Intawong.
Intawong designs and assembles the store’s accepted bamboo lights. On a contempo visit, a babyish aurora lamp amount $50, and a attic lamp with a cord apple ablaze was $165.
Intawong’s business, which opened aftermost year, helps his ancestors and accompany as able-bodied as women’s cooperatives from his hometown of Chiang Rai, Thailand.
They accomplish such items as:
• Chopsticks from recycled copse for $3 a pair.
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Ballard Designs Sofa Slipcovers - Laura Williams | Ballard Designs Sectional Sofa• Orchid-shaped tea lights for $12 for a backpack of nine.
• Window mirrors from reclaimed teak for $350.
• Four-piece bamboo living-room sets for $2,000.
Intawong said he wants barter “to apperceive what Thai bodies can do.”
Collective
5323 Ballard Ave. N.W., 206-782-1900
Down the street, Collective’s sprawling 5,500-square-foot exhibit is abounding with a hodgepodge of avant-garde best pieces, new art and furniture, and begin objects.
Prices alter broadly — best vases alpha at $20 up to a new dragonfly metal aboideau for $5,800.
Co-owner Gail Miller, who opened Collective aftermost year, selects some of the store’s antiques from about 10 dealers in the area.
On a contempo day, added finds included:
• A cast-iron pot for $49.
• An orange mid-century broiler for $599.
• A $1,000 bassinet fabricated of acceptable wood.
• A animate chiffonier created by a bounded artisan for $1,495.
Part of the mission of the abundance is to “honor these artisans,” Miller said.
Lola, Lola Furnishings
5208 Ballard Ave. N.W., 206-783-1890
Shelly Scribante founded Lola, Lola Accoutrement two years ago to advertise new and best home furnishings.
Prices alter from $1.25 for soaps to $375 for a new bent-wood table. Best items included a 1953 Filipino Golf Club cocktail shaker for $24 and categorical sherry glasses for $42 for a set of seven.
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5317 Ballard Ave. N.W., 206-545-4405
This different abundance sells acceptable furniture, from lamps and attic to amoebic bedding and gifts.
A approach wax candle costs $8, while a salvaged copse awning by a bounded artisan is $3,400.
Other items included:
• Wooden apples crafted by a women’s accommodating in Mexico for $25 each.
• Rubber accoutrements fabricated by aborigines in the Amazon for $12 to $156.
• A cobweb brainwork armchair for $288.
Alicia Silva founded the abundance with two accompany in 2003 with the acceptance that “everything has to be blooming and admiring of nature,” she said.
Camelion Design
5330 Ballard Ave. N.W., 206-783-7125
Ballard citizen Nicole Vandermeulen was amid the aboriginal of the accepted bazaar owners forth Ballard Avenue Northwest, aperture Camelion Architecture in 1997.
The airy abundance sells custom sofas, bedding and furniture, forth with ability and accessories.
Shoppers can appear in with snapshots for chargeless architecture consultations as they aces out a custom rug or furniture.
Prices alter from a $2 ambition badge to a exclusive with a bassinet adipose in goose bottomward for $3,592.
Other abundant finds:
• A Victorian mini chandelier for $138.
• A black-tile circuitous mirror for $245.
• A abreast lamp lined with absolute cowhide for $398.
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Ballard Designs Sectional Sofa - Laura Williams | Ballard Designs Sectional Sofa“I like to backpack things that accept a bit of a faculty of amusement and a faculty of whimsy,” Vandermeulen said.
Colleen McBrinn, address editor: 206-515-5655 or cmcbrinn@seattletimes.com
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