POSTS TAGGED ‘home upgrades’

Imagination sometimes requires shaking off the shackles of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin aptly wrote, “I shut my eyes in order to see.” Local artist Lucia Neare’s citywide art installation, There’s No Place Like Home, was a dancing, singing, ice-skating, frolicking, floating testament to Gauguin’s credo about imagination. And while… Continue Reading >

Motivation comes in all shapes and sizes.  For the Sakai-Moore family, the motivation to upgrade their Ballard home was small but powerful: their daughter.    The Sakai-Moore’s house was built in the 1950s, and, like many homes built in the era, it was heated with oil. The environmental impacts and cost of oil became a… Continue Reading >

Motivation comes in all shapes and sizes.  For the Sakai-Moore family, the motivation to upgrade their Ballard home was small but powerful: their daughter.    The Sakai-Moore’s house was built in the 1950s, and, like many homes built in the era, it was heated with oil. The environmental impacts and cost of oil became a… Continue Reading >

On average, the Pacific Northwest sees its wettest days in the last two weeks of November. True to form, forecasts indicate the next several days will soak Seattle, but Thanksgiving is perfectly timed to buoy our water-logged spirits. As family and friends gather over turkey and cranberry sauce – or saag gosht and matzah ball… Continue Reading >

Community Power Works is pleased to welcome five new companies to its pool of City of Seattle approved home performance contractors. With a 300% increase in demand for the program since January and over 3,000 participating homes, the new contractors join 20 busy teams already serving program participants. Selected new contractors demonstrated that they met… Continue Reading >

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), residential energy accounted for 22% of all energy used in the United States in 2011. Although home energy upgrade programs like Community Power Works make a tangible impact, the approaching cold season and its high energy costs require homeowners to be especially vigilant. We thought we would… Continue Reading >

Marketing people love the word “performance.” It just screams better. It’s sort of like a nacho chip-maker using the word “Xtreme” to describe the flavor of their chips. It elicits instant curiosity to experience an Xtreme flavor—or in this case home performance. But, what is home performance exactly?  Home performance is the idea that taking… Continue Reading >

Owner: Joe Baker Location: Belltown Neighborhood – 2522 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98121 Measures:  New beverage cooler, deli reach-in cooler, “cheese Island” reach-in cooler, 26 existing refrigerator case motor replacements, existing refrigerator case temperature controls replacement, refrigerator case lighting replacement, existing overhead lighting lamp replacement, new “Elite list” pendant and track lighting Contractor: Batt &… Continue Reading >