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A GREAT LABOR DAY SALE AT SOFA TABLE CHAIR
(September 3, 2010 • Calendar of Events, Member Sales & Promotions, Member Spotlight • 0 comments
Special order “Sofas” 15% off
Special order “Tables” 10% off
Special order “Chairs” 15% off
Any furniture and accessories currently in our showrooms: 10% off
Friday the 3rd thru Monday the 6th!
Looking forward to having you drop by…….
Susan, Kendra, Shenell and Violet
For more information please contact Susan Walter- Owner of Sofa Table Chair at (503) 231- 2785 or visit: www.SofaTableChair.com.
Custom Affordable, Beautiful Furnishings
Sofa Table Chair is Portland’s resource for a furniture store that spans the gap between cutting edge contemporary, and time-honored tradition. Our pieces feature everything from clean, sleek lines, to vintage looks, and offer sheer comfort and functionality. Be assured that there is something to fit everyone’s style and budget. By the way, we offer more than just sofas, tables and chairs…
Incidentally, as time marches on in the life of Sofa Table Chair, we are adding companies that build to suit your exact needs, using reclaimed lumber, as well as upholstering sofas and chairs with sustainable fabrics. There is also opportunity to order your pieces with soy-based foam cushions!! We will not be left behind in the campaign to protect and care for our environment.
Sofa Table Chair
1916 NE Broadway
Portland, OR. 97232
(503) 231-2785
5656 Hood Street, Suite 109
West Linn, OR. 97069
(503) 557-0420
Susan Walter, Owner
sofatablechair@gmail.com
Renovation Concepts Outdoor Pavilion at The Street of Dreams
(August 4, 2010 • Calendar of Events, Member Spotlight • 0 comments
The Street of Dreams is taking place right now in Portland from 7/31/2010- until 8/29/2010. Open all days: 11 am-9 pm.
Beautiful stylish Trellis custom made by Zion Metal Works
Custom Firepit from Lisac's Fireplaces
Custom Planter Box from Buildesign Inc. & Bamboo plants from LandServices Inc.
The Renovation Concepts Pavillion featuring Lisac's Fireplaces, Buildesign Inc, THE WALL, Railpro, LandServices Inc & Zion Metal Works
This year, 6 Renovation Concepts members were featured in the first annual Renovation Concepts Outdoor Pavillion at The Street of Dreams in Portland, Oregon.
Check out the photo’s to see the expertise of these Renovation Concepts members:
For more information on Lisac’s Fireplaces, Buildesign Inc., LandServices Inc., THE WALL, Zion Metal Works and RailPro please visit: www.RenovationConcepts.net
Third Annual Sidewalk Sale at Sofa Table Chair at West Linn Central Village
(July 29, 2010 • Calendar of Events, Member Sales & Promotions • 0 comments
Dear Valued Customers:
This weekend marks the third annual sidewalk sale at Sofa Table Chair in the West Linn Central Village. We will be open Friday and Saturday with bargains galore! The sidewalk will be full of deep mark-downs, as well as everything inside the store with mark-downs as follows:
Upholstered furniture: 20% off (excluding “Recession Chair”)
Tables and chests: 20% off
Floor model rugs: 20% off
Accessories: 10% off
Wall clocks: 25% off
Wall art and mirrors: 15% off
Lamps: 15% off
Special order upholstery: 15% off
Special order case goods: 10% off (excluding “Dinec”)
Special order rugs: 15% off
By the way, these in-store mark-downs will be honored at our NE store this weekend as well. Hope to see you!
Susan, Kendra, Shenell, Violet
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Sofa Table Chair, Inc.
1916 NE Broadway Street
Portland, OR 97232
Phone (503)231-2782
Fax (503)231-2785
5656 Hood Street, Suite 109
West Linn, Oregon 97068
Phone (503)557-0420
Fax (503)557-0421
For more information, please visit- www.SofaTableChair.com or www.RenovationConcepts.net
Contact: LaDonna Miller- President of Renovation Concepts for more information- (503) 310-9076 or ladonnamiller@earthlink.net
Calendar of Events for Art & Furniture festivals in the Portland & surrounding area
(July 28, 2010 • Calendar of Events • 0 comments
Summer is always a great time in the Portland area for many interesting furniture & art shows, festivals and Home Tours.
Here are some great events to mark on your calendars:
1. August 21-29th- Green Arts Collective Fair- 77282 Hwy 53- Nehalem, OR. 10am-4pm. For more information contact Kathleen Ryan (503) 368-5584.
2. August 21 & 22nd- 10th Annual Silverton Fine Arts Festivals- Coolidge St. Silverton, OR. 10 am-7 pm- Admission- Free www.silvertonarts.org
3. August 28th & 30th- Annual Dahlia Festival- Swan Island Dahlias 995 NW 22nd Ave, Canby, OR. Admission- Free- www.dahlias.com
4. September 4th & 5th- Art in the Pearl- North Park blocks- www.ArtInThePearl.com- Admission-Free
5. July 31 to August 29th: Street of Dreams- Cresap Summit- NW Portland.
11am- 9 pm- Admission $12-14 for Adults. www.streetofdreams.com
Enjoy!
For more information on great design & building professionals please visit www.RenovationConcepts.net
Passive Solar Design by Solar Oregon
(July 12, 2010 • Calendar of Events, Green Building, Healthy Home Trends • 0 comments
| Join us for an Interactive Workshop on “Passive Solar Design” |
| What: Goal Net Zero Interest Group Workshop
When: July 21, 2010 from 6:30 – 8:00pm
Where: Basement Lecture Room – Heritage Building, 3934 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97214 (please use entrance one block east on Grand Ave).
Interested in homes that produce as much energy as they use on an annual basis? Join Solar Oregon’s experts in a series of talks about design and construction of net zero homes. This workshop will concentrate on passive solar design and cover some of the differences and overlaps with Passive House concepts. Presenter Kathryn Gray is an urban planner, designer, owner of UrbanSun passive solar home design, and net zero homeowner. She has received Portland Office of Sustainable Development’s Build It Green grants for cutting edge technology projects, designed the first convective loop solar storage systems in Oregon and has years of experience designing passive solar systems throughout the Northwest. These workshops are meant to be interactive with plenty of time for your questions. |
This looks like a great workshop to attend. For more information, please contact Solar Oregon to register.
For more information on Energy Efficiency- please contact LaDonna Miller- Regarding the Renovation Concepts Energy Efficiency team. Meet with these contractors to learn how to make your home more energy efficient and lower utility bills.
For more information- please contact LaDonna Miller at (503) 310-9076.
REACH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT/RENOVATION CONCEPTS FIRST ANNUAL STEWARDSHIP PROJECT
(June 4, 2010 • Calendar of Events, Stewardship • 0 comments
NEWS RELEASE
REACH Media Contact:
Laura J. Recko
lrecko@reachcdc.org(503) 231-0682 x131
June 4, 2010
REACH TEAMS UP WITH RENOVATION CONCEPTS
TO HELP A SOUTHEAST PORTLAND RESIDENT
PORTLAND, OR – More than 20 local businesses are joining REACH on Saturday, June 5
to help a southeast Portland senior make her home safe and livable by donating over$15,000 worth of home improvement supplies and materials.
Volunteers from RenovationConcepts, Portland’s leading team of sustainable building and design professionals, are teaming up with REACH Community Development to complete repairs on the home of a recently widowed 68-year-old Richmond neighborhood resident.The homeowner has received several citations from the City for a variety of housing code violations and is currently living in her car. It’s just too expensive for her to make the repairs in the current economic downturn.
“This time in my life has been so dark. Working with all these nice, generous people has been a light in my life. There are no words to explain what this means to me,” says the homeowner.
The economic downturn has hit Oregon homeowners especially hard, particularly seniors who are struggling to pay their mortgages and continue basic upkeep on their homes.
REACH responds to this community need by providing free home repairs for senior homeowners throughout Portland.
Renovation Concepts members AAA Heating & Cooling; Bollinger Window Fashions; Builddesign, LLC; Emma Shea Interiors; Gene Darco Painting; Interstate Flooring Co; JB Construction Inc.; Joan Mullen Woods Interiors; LandServices; Olson & Jones; RailPro USA;Reds Electric; Sofa Table Chair; Stevens Printing; The Whole 9 Yards; and Zion Metal Works are all donating their time and resources to help this homeowner.
“As members of the building and design community in Portland, we are honored to be able to dedicate our time and talents to this project,” says LaDonna Miller, President. “We’re very excited about the opportunity to work with REACH. We sincerely hope our efforts make a difference in this homeowner’s life.”
“REACH is committed to helping Portland’s seniors be able to live safely in their homes,” says Dee Walsh, Executive Director. “We’re thrilled to be partnering with Renovation Concepts, who’re dedicating a very generous amount of their time and resources to provide a vital resource to seniors who can’t afford to keep their homes safe and livable.”
For more information about REACH’s Community Builders Program, please contact Anastasia Howard, Manager, at (503) 519-2099 or visit
www.reachcdc.orgFor more information about Renovation Concepts, please contact LaDonna Miller, President, at (503) 310-9076, or visit
www.renovationconcepts.netSince 1982, REACH has been developing and managing affordable housing and
providing supportive services to our residents. REACH also sponsors the Community
Builders Program, a free home repair program available to low income senior homeowners.
Our portfolio of over 1,300 units includes single family homes, apartment buildings and mixed-use developments located across the City of Portland.
Renovation Concepts is a comprehensive resource for consumers searching for top building and design professionals in the Portland Metro area. Renovation Concepts has over 30 professionals to assist homeowners with all of their remodeling, design, landscape and energy efficiency upgrade projects.
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For more information please contact LaDonna Miller- ladonnamiller@earthlink.net www.RenovationConcepts.net(503) 310-9076
The Rebuilding Center is hosting a fundraising Event
(May 19, 2010 • Calendar of Events, Sustainability in Portland • 0 comments
OPEN THE DOOR TO SUSTAINABILITY
Please join us on June 19th to celebrate the
vibrancy of sustainability in our region with
local food, one of a kind reclaimed art and
entertainment .
Open the DOOR to Sustainability will be
Portland’s first waste-free fun(d)-raising
event full of recognition and continued joint
efforts to bring sustainable living to the
forefront of our communities. Show your
support for sustainability and the work of
The ReBuilding Center while enjoying the
spirit that makes our region such a unique
and wonderful place to live.
THE AUCTION
The event will feature a very special door carved by premiere Northwest artist, LeRoy Setziol, on display for the first time. To learn the unique story of how this door almost wound up in the landfill click here.
Inspired by the story of how LeRoy’s door came to The ReBuilding Center and by his incredible craftsmanship, over 50 local artists created original works of art from our own salvaged doors. Each art door embodies the ethos of sustainability. These doors will be auctioned at the event — offering a unique opportunity to own an original work of art by a talented local artist. For more information about the doors and the artists behind them, click here.
An exciting “Best of Live” raffle offers the opportunity to win the Live Auction item of your choice for only $100. Only 100 tickets will be sold.
The auction event will be full to the brim with amazing packages and items including:
- LeRoy Setziol hand carved door
- Sustainable art doors by local artist
- One Week vacation rental on Orcas Island
- Electric Scooter from Columbia Scooters
- Mt. Hood Meadows 2010-2011 Season Lift Tickets
- An escorted, behind the scenes tour of Trailblazers Central – for 15 people
- Two Nights of casual sophistication at the Nines Hotel
- “Romeo and Juliet” two night package at The Heathman Hotel
- One full year of Organic Valley Milk
- And so much more…
ENTERTAINMENT
In addition to a live and silent auction, guests will enjoy live music; local, organic food catered by Abby’s Table; and locally produced beers, wines and spirits. We hope you’ll join us.
While we already have many exciting auction items, there is always room for more! We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to support this event with a donation. Consider things like: pottery, stained glass, items made from salvaged materials, tickets, gift certificates, dinners, art, music and vacations. Get creative! Click here to learn how.
Creating Healthy Indoor Environments in Portland Homes
(May 18, 2010 • Calendar of Events, Healthy Home Trends • 0 comments
This is an interesting Calendar of Event item on Indoor Air Quality sponsored by the Oregon Environmental Council.
On June 12, OEC will host a day-long training for volunteers to learn the key principles of creating healthy indoor environments. Join our session and get the tools you need to spread the word about reducing chemical exposure and improving environmental health in your home and community.
OEC is offering a full-day training for volunteer leaders interested in learning the principles of toxic reduction in the home and the benefits to human health. Participants will also learn tips and tricks for becoming effective community advocates and for leading community workshops to bring the Eco-Healthy Home materials to more social circles.
Participants will be the first to receive our new Eco-Healthy Homes Check-up Kit.
The workshop is free, but space is limited to 16 participants. We’ll give first priority to current OEC volunteers and others who’ve shown a commitment to our mission through our action network or as supporting members.
For more information on improving the Indoor Air Quality by having a Home Performance Review completed by the Renovation Concepts Energy Efficiency Team, please contact LaDonna Miller- (503) 310-9076 to schedule an appointment.
Understanding Sustainability Forum at Portland State University
(May 10, 2010 • Calendar of Events • 0 comments
Since the City of Portland is known as a leading Green City- it is always interesting to attend a forum where great minds unite and talk about Sustainability. This event being held at Portland State University on May 20th from 7-9 pm, is one that you should mark on your calendars and plan to attend.
For more information read the following article from the Oregonian.
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News: The Oregonian: Portland State University offers second annual forum: ‘Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities’Author:By Carrie Sturrock Posted:May 10, 2010
http://blog.oregonlive.com/pdxgreen/2010/05/portland_satte_university_offe.html
A humanities scholar, a social scientist, a city planner and an artist might all come at sustainability from a different perspective but together they can enrich and inform each other. That’s the goal behind Portland State University’s second annual forum “Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities” May 20-22.
The forum is free and open to the public and promises to be less academic and more accessible to regular people like me than last year’s. The three-day event brings together 60 scholars from different disciplines and backgrounds “to draw out the controversies over the meaning and practice of sustainability” through panel discussions and conversations. Natalie Jeremijenko will give the keynote address “After Copenhagen: Emerging Strategies of Political Participation” Thursday, May 20, 7-9 p.m. after opening remarks.
Jeremijenko, the event’s promoters write, “is an internationally recognized artist and engineer whose work primarily explores the interface between society, the environment and technology. She is currently an associate professor at New York University in the Visual Art Department, and has affiliated faculty appointments in Computer Science and Environmental Studies.”
For more information on purchasing a green home in Portland. Please contact LaDonna Miller- Real Estate Broker with Oregon First.
ladonnamiller@earthlink.net or (503) 310-9076