Step-by-step restoration from The Seattle Times

Tina Potterf writes in The Seattle Times about a couple, Kristen and John McPherson, who buy an old house in Snohomish County and begin to renovate the home with the assistance of Snohomish Old Homes Group.

After years of taking a back seat to their Southern California peers, Pacific Northwest bungalows are finally getting some attention.

Northwest Bungalow Love

Seems Courtney Love is $60,000 behind in mortgage payments on her Big Apple condominium, which the entertainer actually has on the market for $5.5 million. She owes $3 million on the property, according to the legal documentation the New York Daily News discovered in checking out the lawsuit.

Never really having gone out of style, there’s a whole DIY movement afoot, more closely alligned to arts and crafts.

ReadyMade is a sassy, mod, do-it-yourself (DIY) print magazine for people who like to make stuff from everyday objects. It delivers an assortment of practical projects and offbeat commentary.

Hate buying a new suit of clothes for a wedding or special event? Make your own tux. Soda Pop Tux.

Wondering what to do with those free AOL CD’s? Make a lovely CD Lamp out of them.

Like to make strange things out of electricity? Check out Dorkbot. It’s a world-wide organization, currently meeting at and hooked up in Seattle with The Center on Contemporary Art.

Mark “Devo” Mothersbaugh’s 2005 gallery tour of his new Beautiful Mutants collection stops next at Seattle’s Roq La Rue gallery. The exhibition of these hand- and digitally-”corrected” vintage photographs opens this Friday, September 9, but all of the works can also be seen online at Roq la Rue. Here’s a quote from the artist’s statement: “Symmetry - Rorschach’s patterns, though abstract, suggest different visual images to each person who views them, and each interpretation is correct. Objects in this world are what they are to you because of how you happen to see them.”

Since Christmas is just around the corner, you may want to consider getting his holiday CD, Joyeux Mutato, written, performed and produced by Mothersbaugh. It began life as a series of compositions to accompany an art installation but blossomed into a collection of Mark’s interpretations of traditional Yuletide standards. Though primarily instrumental, several recordings feature sampled voices; one track even has Mothersbaugh singing a unique version of “Silent Night.” It’s out of print, but you may be able to score a used copy on Ebay or Amazon.