Home, sweet, home tour.
There are two unique self-guided Seattle home tours this weekend to help change the way you look at your four walls.
The Modern Home Tour by The Modern Architecture + Design Society is 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 29 in Seattle. It features eight new and renovated modern homes. Tickets are $35 in advance; $40 on the day of the tour. Children younger than 12 get in free.
The Northwest Green Home Tour, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 29 and 30, is in and around Seattle. It includes green new homes, remodels, backyard cottages and rain gardens. The tour is free, with a suggested $5 donation.
Modern Home Tour
Visitors can talk to the architects, designers, builders and homeowners. The Seattle Architecture Foundation is the tour’s non-profit beneficiary and help staff the event by The Modern Architecture + Design Society.
The society, based in Austin, Texas, was founded to introduce modern architecture and living to people across the nation.
“We do about a dozen tours a year cities in across the U.S. and Canada. This is the sixth year in Seattle,” spokesman Ken Shallcross said. “There is always a great new selection of homes and a great group of people wanting to see them.”
The tour includes:
Madison Park home designed by Gloria Andrade and Mark Wilson.
New home on the west slope of Phinney Ridge by Coates Design Architects.
Urban retreat designed by Lane Williams Architects that sits atop Queen Anne Hill.
Residences on Fairview home, located on Wards Cove, designed by atelierjones.
Modernizing update by Best Practice Architecture to a 100-year-old home in Roanoke Park.
Renovation and addition to the “MTM Residence,” designed by babienko Architects, located near Woodland Park.
New home by Barcelo Homes overlooking Lake Washington.
New home by Dwell Development and JA Architects in a Mount Baker neighborhood.
More at: www.mads.media/2017-mads-seattle-modern-home-tour.
Northwest GreenHome Tour
Northwest Ecobuilding Guild’s tour showcases sustainable and green new homes, remodels and energy retrofits.
The tour’s broad range of dwellings include: A sustainable travel trailer. Homes using net-zero and passive house technology. Detached accessory dwelling units. Studio built completely from recycled materials. Built Green co-housing community.
Guild members are construction-related professionals and homeowners concerned with ecological building and long-term sustainability.
More at www.nwgreenhometour.org.
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