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We recently launched a new portfolio project, The Mercer Island Bike Skills Area. Completed by our landscape architecture team, in collaboration with American Ramp Company (ARC), the new bike skills park in the northeast corner of Deane’s Children’s Park on Mercer Island, is designed for skill building for all ages and abilities, as well as easy maintenance and minimal impact to the surrounding natural area. Board & Vellum provided local support to the project lead, American Ramp Company, leading public engagement and providing environmental code review. Our goal for public engagement was to provide fun and accessible opportunities for a broad range of community members to share their thoughts, ideas, questions, and concerns about creating this new park amenity in a well-loved park. Read more over on our portfolio: https://lnkd.in/gaUbWWay #parkdesign #landsacpearchitecture

Keep your eyes out for the latest issues of Portrait Magazine (Seattle and Portland editions) — where you'll find our project, the Mount Baker Historic Craftsman featured. "When Paul and Leslie Santarelli were looking for a home in Seattle in 2018, they were seeing too many houses that were just a little too new. “It was a lot of modern farmhouses,” recalls Paul. “There was nothing very old.” Then the couple walked into a 1912 Craftsman in the Mt. Baker neighborhood. They were amazed by the home’s historic detail, from the coffered ceiling and decorative stair railing, to the original tile around the fireplace and stained-glass windows glinting in several rooms. “This was a house that I’ve always dreamed about living in,” says Leslie. “It had so much beautiful character and potential.” After living there for a few years, they realized the few pain points: mainly, that there was only one bathroom for the three upstairs bedrooms, which wouldn’t work for the family of five, and the kitchen was worn and tired after an 80s remodel, resulting in a stylistic mismatch. For a remodel, Paul and Leslie sought out a team to design and build the project who was equally excited and passionate about historic houses. “For us, it was really about finding a team that had the same appreciation for the historic parts of the home that still existed,” says Paul. They found it in interior designer Hyrel Mathias, of Board & Vellum and later Hyrel Mathias Interior Design, Lance Hayes, architect at Board & Vellum, and contractor Brad Wageman of Ambrose Construction. Wageman, who began his construction career in fine carpentry before starting a firm that remodels all types of homes, has a particular satisfaction for working with century-old houses like this one. A remodel is a chance to “pluck these aberrations out of the home and make it whole again,” says Wageman." Read on, and explore the beautiful images from Miranda Estes, at: https://lnkd.in/gTHTvnYY

Ever been a little underwhelmed with a vacation home? Us, too. There's more to making a vacation home really sing than you may think. We share the details in the Summer Issue of Master Builder Magazine, in this feature on vacation home design. Read the Digital Version: https://lnkd.in/ggWf3nnV?

We are honored and excited to be a 2024 ONEder Grant Recipient for our proposal on fostering connectivity in the workplace, "Embracing Change: Exploring the Intersections." Congratulations, as well, to the other recipients, Mahlum and Perkins Eastman. Thank you, One Workplace. Here's to kicking off 6 months of great design research!

It's released! Our Laurelhurst Storybook Residence is in the inaugural Seattle | Bellevue issue of Build Magazine! Board & Vellum is built on the idea that every project is not only unique, but personal. We offer in-house architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture services, enabling us to compose a deeply collaborative, multidisciplinary team specifically suited to you and your project. Flip through the digital version of Build Magazine here, and find our spreads starting on Page 54: https://lnkd.in/g4UFQjtm

PSBJ BizSpotlight: Board & Vellum Expands Its Multifamily and Mixed-Use Portfolio "Board & Vellum gained early acclaim as the design force behind projects that became neighborhood staples, like the adaptive reuse of a historic home into local favorite Ada’s Technical Books & Café on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, and the Lucille on Roosevelt, a mixed-use apartment building with a ground floor experience residents readily made their home-away-from-home. Board & Vellum was also the multidisciplinary design team for the commercial spaces at the Lucille: the Roosevelt location of Armistice Coffee, and the coworking space, Seven Starlings Workloft. In the years since Jill Burdeen, Principal, joined Board & Vellum in 2018, she’s leveraged her now 20 years of experience in multifamily and mixed-use projects in the Seattle market to lead the expansion of Board & Vellum’s multifamily sector. Stellar, an elegant 160-unit apartment building in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood recently opened, in 2023. Stellar was developed by Pastakia + Associates, and Board & Vellum’s architecture and landscape architecture teams partnered with VIDA for interior design. Stream Overlake — a 224-unit apartment building with 1, 2, and 3-bedroom units along with over 4,000 SF of commercial space and a goal of LEED Platinum — is in the permitting process in Redmond, developed by Stream Real Estate. Tanager Apartments, developed by Euclid Development in partnership with HAL Real Estate, is soon to enter the construction phase, combining two adjacent sites in Capitol Hill, Seattle, to create a unified urban living experience sensitive to its neighborhood context. This year, a new adaptive reuse project by Board & Vellum caught the eye of the press, deemed “Seattle’s first office-to-residential conversion of the post-pandemic era.” Developed by Stream Real Estate, the project is transforming a prototypical ‘80s-era, ribbon-windowed office building into modern, market rate apartments." Read on at: https://lnkd.in/gc_SzzNj

🌟 Happy International Women's Day! 🌟 At Board & Vellum, we're proud to share that our Leadership Team is composed of an inspiring 77% women. Here's to celebrating diversity & inclusion by empowering women everywhere to take ownership of leadership roles! 🥂 #IWD2024 #WomenLeaders #EqualityInAction #architectureanddesign

We are excited to share these first images of the Stellar Apartments where the West Lake neighborhood of Seattle meets South Lake Union. Architecture and Landscape Architecture by Board & Vellum; Interior Design by VIDA Design. We look forward to sharing images of the interior and roof deck amenity space in the future. In the meantime, see additional photos and learn more about this new construction apartment building in our portfolio: https://lnkd.in/di9E9Z95 #multifamilydesign #multifamilydevelopment #multifamily #multifamilyhousing #multifamilyrealestate

Our Tanager Apartments project with Euclid Development now has a Master Use Permit. Read on at the DJC below, and check out more renderings and details about the project here: https://lnkd.in/gykUX6AQ DJC: https://lnkd.in/gJ9QP2K5 #multifamily #multifamilyhousing #multifamilydevelopment #capitolhill

Exciting news — our Mount Baker Historic Craftsman project is featured in the January/February issue of Luxe Magazine. Go grab yourself a copy of the magazine, or read more about the project and explore more photos of the space — including some before/after sliders — over on our portfolio. ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/g9sMfp74 #seattlearchitecture #seattleinteriordesigners This project was in collaboration with HMID and Ambrose Construction. Photography by Miranda Estes.