by Lisa Broadwater | May 19, 2017 | About Bend, Bend Neighborhoods, Home & Design, Real Estate News, Uncategorized
Each Wednesday, the brokers in my Sotheby’s office gather together at our Old Mill location to talk real estate –- we share upcoming listings, discuss current market trends, review changes in our contract forms and generally exchange info. Recently, however, we headed...
by Lisa Broadwater | Mar 17, 2017 | About Bend, Central Oregon Events, Home & Design, Uncategorized
Fans of the Bend Area Habitat for Humanity ReStore, take note: The third-annual Furniture Flip Design Challenge is just around the corner. Appropriately enough, the annual fund-raiser coincides with Earth Day: Saturday, April 22. And, no, that wasn’t a...
by Lisa Broadwater | Jan 22, 2017 | About Central Oregon, For Buyers, Home & Design, Uncategorized
Have you heard of hygge? If not, no doubt you will be hearing about it soon: It was named Pinterest’s number one home and design trend for 2017. A slew of books on hygge have been released in the past year, and more are on the way. There are hygge shops, hygge drinks,...
by Lisa Broadwater | Jan 4, 2017 | About Central Oregon, Central Oregon News, Home & Design, Home Trends, Uncategorized
It’s 6 degrees outside, with about a foot of snow (and more on the way), so I can’t think of a better time to talk about spring. In a stroke of good fortune, yesterday’s paper (which I’m reading this morning) features a wire story from the Newport News (Virginia)...
by Lisa Broadwater | Apr 4, 2016 | About Bend, Home & Design, Local Resources, Uncategorized
I’m excited to once again be helping behind the scenes of the Bend Area Habitat ReStore’s Furniture Flip. This the second year for the fledgling fund-raiser, which benefits the Bend Area Habitat and its efforts to provide affordable home-ownership to...
by Lisa Broadwater | Nov 30, 2015 | About Sisters, Oregon, For Buyers, Home & Design, Real Estate News, Uncategorized
This summer I wrote about the building boom in Sisters. Now, developer Peter Hall has broken ground on Sisters’ newest subdivision, ClearPine. The 20-acre, 100-home project in northeast Sisters is being touted as a sort of scaled-down version of Bend’s uber-popular...