Oregon Home

Explore new ideas to make your dream project blossom at the 2026 Portland Spring Home & Garden Show. Visit us at booth #757 at the February 26 – March 1 and grab some free copies of Oregon Home magazine! 🌸🌿✨

Congratulations Mountainwood Homes! 👏

With the recent opening of its Northwest Portland showroom, Australian furniture retailer brings its signature modular design and engineered comfort to the Pacific Northwest. Founded in Sydney in 1977, the family-owned company was built on a simple idea: create furniture that evolves, can be repaired, and is made to last. In a Q&A with founder David King, discover how that original philosophy continues to shape the brand’s smart, flexible approach to modern living — see more at oregonhomemagazine.com/living-smartly 🛋️

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from dated to delightful — PKA. Architecture thoughtfully reimagined this Southwest Portland home room by room, honoring its mid-century roots while bringing in light, flow, and modern livability. See more at oregonhomemagazine.com/room-to-evolve 🏡🔨📐

Architecture by PKA. Architecture
Interior design by Morgan Hill Design
Built by Petrina Construction Inc.
Photography by MC Imagery

When your friends and family come over, give them something to talk about. These PNW-made finds are sure to get the conversation started in every corner of your home.

1. Sofa: “I’m taking this throw home with me.”  
2. Side table: “Wow, the light from that lamp is amazing!”
3. Coffee table: “What did you think of that book?”
4. Powder room: “The soap you have in there is so cute!”
5. Dining table: “Wait, is that the butter dish?”
6. Wall: “Those coat hooks could work anywhere!”
7. Living room: “I’m going to need to touch that cabinet.”
8. Ambiance: “What’s that amazing smell?”

See more at oregonhomemagazine.com/hot-topics 💬🏠

For Jessica and Jason Cain, the path to their dream home began with a chance encounter. With four young boys, the family had outgrown several Lake Oswego homes and had long envisioned building a custom home, but finding the right property felt daunting. A casual stop at a Renaissance Homes open house led to a life-changing conversation with founder and president Randy Sebastian, who revealed a rare gem: a five-acre property on Rosemont Road between Lake Oswego and West Linn — the family’s ideal location and perfectly suited for a custom home.

What started as serendipity quickly became a seamless building experience, leading to the Cains moving into their new home just under two years later. “We were wanting functionality and beauty, and we wanted to have it done quickly so we could get into our home and start living in it,” says Jessica Cain. “I feel like I can’t say enough about Renaissance. It was seamless. They were doing everything right and on time.” See more at https://oregonhomemagazine.com/home/from-open-house-to-dream-home/

A good gathering shares big love with your people — and doesn’t have to throw anyone’s health off. “The principle of abundance reigns supreme in grazing spreads,” says Shannon Sims (), a holistic health educator and food artist based in Portland and the visionary behind the catering company Food Art Love. Sims’ grazing spreads move beyond just cheese and charcuterie to incorporate seasonal produce, vibrant colors, and uncommon vegetables and fruits. Her forever goal is to make each spread deliciously captivating, inspiring to look at and irresistible to consume. She works in texture, color, flavor and seasonality, always finding alluring combinations that work well for many diets but feel like art. “My not-so-secret agenda is always to fill people up with local vegetables,” Sims says. 

See the ingredients that make up these delectable healthy grazing spreads at oregonhomemagazine.com/spread-some-joy

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Every design project ends up being a collaboration, but working with a household of art-loving creative directors presents a special opportunity for designing intentional spaces. For Jessica Hansen and the team behind Portland-based .interiors, this free flow of ideas between creatives was what made their work on a 1980s contemporary in Northwest Portland’s Forest Park so satisfying. Just as important to material changes was finding a way to hold the couple’s existing art collection — making choices that felt both congruous to the home’s design while holding space for beloved artworks and sculptural pieces the couple had collected along the way. “Working with a client’s collection of past items is what makes a house feel really interesting,” Hansen says. “You can’t just go out and buy things and also make it feel like a home.” See more at oregonhomemagazine.com/must-love-art 🖼️❤️
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Architect Risa Boyer of Portland-based had been looking with her family for a property near Mt. Hood for seven years, but their wish list was different than most. They wanted the peace and serenity of being surrounded by woods, but they also longed for a valley setting, with its feeling of abundance. They found it in an 11-acre property formerly known as Ziba Dimmick State Park, an abandoned swath of land abutting the East Fork River near Parkdale.

“It was magical wandering through the woods and discovering these different environments on the 11 acres,” says Boyer. “Going in on the property and then the project with another family and keeping the costs down allowed us to make this dream happen.” 

Together, the families planned for a sleek, modern retreat reminiscent of the barns of Hood River’s Fruit Loop, with an overall goal to create a serene space connected to nature — one that could accommodate a group while allowing for solitude. See more at oregonhomemagazine.com/together-at-last 🏔️

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- “Elevated basement” may sound like a contradiction in terms, but more and more, that’s what’s happening in the lowest levels of the home. “Basements are spaces full of untapped potential,” says Jessica Shevde of Portland-based Jessica Lane Interiors. For this 1910, 4,860-square-foot Craftsman-style in Portland Heights, Shevde amplified the space’s low natural light with new windows reflected by a decorative mirror and glossy tile backsplash, layered lighting including recessed ceiling lights and sconces, and strategically placed table and floor lamps. Benjamin Moore greige “Nature’s Essentials” warmed up the space. “The original basement was cold, dark and lacking storage,” Shevde says. “With creative design, a basement can become an inviting, comfortable extension of the home.”

Photos by David Papazian Photography