Belltown Design

Jul 2017

The ADU was designed to serve as a rental apartment in the basement of this large Capitol Hill home in Seattle. The house, originally built in 1902, still had it’s original floor plan in tact. The ADU was designed to echo the sentiment of the main house in sentiment and style, while retaining its own, unique identity. Together, these clients and Belltown Design decided to incorporate some of the Industrial Age style with it’s Victorian flair. The ADU is a “Hi Lo Mix” of building materials, geared towards easy living in a small space. This remodel has a $100,000 price tag. Our architectural drawings reflect an open concept. The kitchen was separated from the rest of the apartment with a short, peninsula and industrial style pendant lights. We incorporated Shaker Style warm white painted cabinetry, with period authentic glass fronts and oil rubbed bronze bin pulls. The appliances are modern, apartment size, in stainless steel, with schoolhouse lighting fixtures. The white subway tiles go all the way up to the ceiling, with dark grout and reclaimed wood floating shelves. The main beam remained “raw” and rustic; optimizing this structural feature to create a statement. With Seattle’s own Plank and Grain, we designed and built a moving wall between the bedroom and living room with reclaimed wood from the house. These natural building materials lend themselves to the vintage sentiment we aimed to achieve. The lighting is a mix of Industrial style and Art Deco. These fixtures are unique configurations of shapes and metal finishes, creating layers of light on dimmers within this small space. Lighting makes for versatility in a space like this, ranging from ambient to task with dimmer capabilities. Photo by Paula McHugh

$100k

Seattle, WA

Apr 2016

These clients found us on Houzz and hired Belltown Design because they liked our small space solutions. This remodel involved turning a rather ordinary living room into a fine Craftsman-style living space. We hired The Mantel Shoppe to help us by building this lovely, Blue Slide Tile fireplace that Eli and I at Norberrys designed for these clients. Cathy from The Mantel Shoppe also built our custom cherry wood built-ins and closet doors, designed especially for these homeowners. The metal finishes were all oil rubbed bronze, right down to Cast iron heat registers by Acorn. The woodwork was finished by Aldrich father and son, the finest of woodworkers in the bunch!

$30k

Seattle, WA

Mar 2015

Coralee and John's 1895 Victorian home sits on Main Street in Fairfield Iowa and provides a picturesque skyline for the rest of the neighborhood! A quintessential Queen Anne Victorian, this 'grande dame' has a spacious, open floor plan, fat-round turrets, curved verandahs, and built of a multitude of materials, textures and finishes. I was invited into this project over a country dinner one Winter eve, pouring over house photos, and potential wall paint colors at Schmiddle Earth on Orcas Island. I seemed to have the right paint colors at my fingertips, and Sharon and Coralee were as crazy for color as I was! We put our heads together and eventually "nailed it" via email, phone, internet, using what I would describe as "color visioning skills". I really am a color specialist more than anything else, and the company I was keeping knew that:) and I am honored to have been the "go-to" color girl for this project. Photo by Coralee Dey and Sharon Schmidt

$1m

Fairfield, IA

Jan 2015

Remember the family in the Ambrose Russell cottage-home in Tacoma, near Seattle in an earlier project here on Houzz? Well, the gentleman half of this couple wanted custom, designed bedding, and SHE would just as soon go buy it at Yves Delorme! (They would have spent more there!) Belltown Design has it's design-stamp on this bedding, entirely handmade, his gift to her, the perfect thing to nurture them both! The ensemble includes 2 euroshams, 2 king shams, a 54" bolster, 1 square box pillow, 1 round box pillow, 3 boudoir pillows, coverlet, and duvet.

$8k

Tacoma, WA

Sep 2014

These clients were looking for a long range interior design plan honoring their home's historical context, and their modern family lifestyle. While addressing the subjects of color, lighting, hardware, fabrics, windows, and furnishings, we found graceful ways to arrange the rooms and spaces. These photos focus on the custom pillows and cushions we created for the window seats and furnishings. Ambrose Russell, was a large figure in architecture, who designed this house, and numerous historical homes and buildings in and around Tacoma, and Washington's Governor's Mansion in Olympia.

$30k

Tacoma, WA

Aug 2014

This 592 square foot condominium in the Grandview tower made of concrete and steel is located in the heart of Seattle in Belltown. On the 16th floor facing west, there are spectacular views of the city, Elliot Bay, and the Olympic Mountains. We gutted the place, and designed it "to the square inch" to be a functional for living and working, fully in accord with the views, natural light, and orientations. The Grandview, built in 1979, is the Grande Dame of Seattle's downtown high rise condos and makes me think of Bauhaus architectural style!

$55k

Seattle, WA

Jan 2014

This family engaged my design services to create both the interior and exterior paint colors schemes. This new Craftsman home, had just the foundation laid when we began to envision wall color and lighting. A family of five, each having a "love" for color, in their own way…with no qualms about stating their preferences! The colors we ultimately selected were close to those in nature, and all about the land by the river in Issaquah. Brandy is from the Southwest, and Daniel, a New Zealander, which has direct affect on each of their color-sense. They informed me that if I could produce the ‘right’ Terra Cotta tone for their home interior, then, for them, it would be well worth my paycheck! You’ll see this Terra Cotta in the slideshow; Audubon Russet, BM HC-51. The exterior color scheme speaks to our Northwest, while the all of the interior colors we designed to flow from room to room, be unified by a certain tonal quality, and were meant to delight these house inhabitants! Daniel, is a Boeing engineer, and fond of industrial style lighting fixtures too. We narrowed down a world of products and selections, and set “Craftman” style parameters for door and cabinet hardware, interior metal finishes, tile selections, patterns, countertop, other building materials, which really helped the selection process. Coming Soon: How to Apply a Metallic Paint Wall Finish using Modern Masters Copper and an HVLP sprayer. This will give you the cherry-on-top, of this overall wall color scheme!

$5k

Issaquah, WA

Nov 2013

This client wanted her home to feel warm, cozy, and relaxing, a place to enjoy good company, an excellent meal, with an indoor/outdoor appeal. Besides choosing lighting fixtures, our design process included gaining a fresh outlook for the interior design of this home as a whole! I consulted on styling, utility, lighting, color, fabrics, products, furnishings and art display. What we came up with was what the space itself called for, suiting the client's eclectic taste. We moved furniture, paintings, accessories, art, and didn't stop until everything was infallibly in its place. These photos show our finished product.

$25k

Friday Harbor, WA

Jun 2013

A typical Seattle bungalow, this jewel box in Ravenna sits in a row of three homes built in the early 40s. The "best" of the three houses has a Batchhelder Tile hearth, indicating whose house the builder's was! Jewel box is the "other two," having a modest red brick hearth, original fir doors, hinges, knobs, backplates, claw foot tub, and fine French doors. We all agreed that the client's love of " things vintage" would ultimately be reflected in this little home in the coming years of restoration. Establishing a wall paint color scheme goes a long way, and one of the projects you can DIY!

$8k

Seattle, WA