Going back to school allows us an opportunity to reconsider how our spaces help our kids prepare to learn. As we venture into a new academic year, we offer you creative pro-tips towards healthy homes, conducive to learning and overall wellness. Here are a few ways you could help your student adjust to another unprecedented school year. Go get ‘em, kiddos!
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Mercer Island Rotary: International Dance for Peace
In celebration of the International Day of Peace, the Rotary Club of Mercer Island is hosting an All Island International Dance Party.
WHEN: Sunday, September 18, 2022 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
WHERE: Mercer Island Community & Event Center
8236 SE 24th St, Mercer Island, WA 98040, USA
Everyone is welcome for an all-ages afternoon community dance. Dessert, drinks, and fun! Meet new people, and gather with neighbors for a world music dance party and benefit, for peace in Ukraine and around the world.
Tying in with the 18 peace poles that Rotary members placed around the Island in recent years — emblazoned with the sentiment of “May Peace Prevail” on Earth in 14 world languages — SZ signed up to be world languages table sponsors in Arabic. ليكن السلام سائدا على الأرض
SZ Build Series - Episode 2: Set in Stone
As a Design | Build team, SZ Build offers the unique advantage of leading projects from inception to completion. We thought it would be fun to share in this gratifying process, as we launch our SZ Build Video Series. Through these construction vignettes, we’ll give you a sneak peak into the sequencing and technical prowess of our rockstar subcontractors, as our designs come to life!
Our second episode features the forming & pouring of concrete footings and foundation walls of a new Detached Accessory Dwelling Unit (DADU) on Mercer Island. You’ll see our team pump concrete through an overhead boom directly into the forms, setting the footprint for the framework to come. We build for the beauty, durability and longevity of our homes.
In case you missed it, here’s Episode 1: Excavation & Groundwork
How to Get Started Remodeling Your House on Mercer Island
by Sarah Anne Lloyd, My Mercer Island
Dreaming of how to fix your house is easy, whether you want to build a functional home office, update your kitchen to match your culinary ambitions, or simply to breathe new life into an old Mercer Island house. The hard part comes in figuring out what it will actually cost, how long it will take, and how to even get started.
“It’s a process,” says Suzanne Zahr, who has been working on spaces on Mercer Island for her eponymous firm, Suzanne Zahr, Inc., for seven years. “It’s one that can be very enjoyable, very exciting, because you’re transforming an aspect of your world,” she says, but she also notes it can be stressful.
Preparation, planning, and a good team can help make the remodeling process easier, and Mercer Island has a number of experts on every aspect of remodeling, which leads to Zahr’s biggest piece of advice for people considering a remodel on their home: “Find a team you can trust, the rest will fall into place.”
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