tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post555898891568624921..comments2023-11-02T04:20:08.524-04:00Comments on Dream Kitchen: The Life and Death of a Seattle House: 700 West Kinnear PlaceLauren D. McKinneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492156665800981450noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post-71671642472196617762020-06-09T06:21:37.115-04:002020-06-09T06:21:37.115-04:00Fantastic post! Please keep sharing. btw, I know ...Fantastic post! Please keep sharing. btw, I know of a roofing company if you are interested in <a href="https://www.achtensroofing.com/" rel="nofollow">roofers seattle</a>. Please get in touch! Thanks, have a good day. <br />Georgia Cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07939965635773066425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post-66961398272496858702014-05-06T17:43:53.365-04:002014-05-06T17:43:53.365-04:00I have happened upon your post a number of years l...I have happened upon your post a number of years later. I happened upon it because 700 W. Kinnear Place is now the home of my parents. I never knew the original character of the place, though I most certainly recognize and identify with the pain of losing a home that has played a central role in your life. The home you knew may be gone, but I wanted to tell you that the home we know has become the heart of a family who loves it well. My three siblings and I, our spouses and our children gravitate from our dispersed residences to gather here. There is food, there is laughter, there is warmth. We fill every room - even the beige basement, with various cousins on couches and air mattresses - and the attic's closets are home to piles of old toys that come out to play with eager grandchildren. My mother cooks in the kitchen every night. I can see how this house, if empty, would read as soulless. A house, after all, is just a house. But home is about that which fills a house. I hope it brings you some small measure of comfort to know that the house that stands here now, while not the home you knew, is home to someone nonetheless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post-44954661699271401402014-03-02T00:47:00.570-05:002014-03-02T00:47:00.570-05:00It is important that for every home that we choose...It is important that for every home that we choose to be built for the family, we use nothing but only quality materials to make sure that it will give the protection that everyone needs from the harsh weather and water damage at times. Statewide Construction is a roofing company in Seattle that has expertise when it comes to roof design and construction. The variety of roofing designs that we have will truly fit your roofing needs but still remains friendly to your budget. Along with the quality of materials and the services we offer, we still have another thing in store for you. This is for the thing we call as emergency roofing. This means that if you may encounter roofing problems that needs urgent attention, just give our <a href="http://www.statewideconstructionwa.com/roofing.html" rel="nofollow">Roofing Company Seattle</a> a call and all it takes is just an hour or two for us to do the fix. That is how fast and reliable our services are. Seattle Roofing Contractorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07941888314448286133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post-283496306612506342010-01-18T00:59:00.304-05:002010-01-18T00:59:00.304-05:00Such a great essay! Found your post because I was ...Such a great essay! Found your post because I was looking for pictures of the house, the way it used to be. I nearby, and used to walk by it frequently. I remember an article in the Seattle P-I, when the house was first sold. Do you have any old pictures you could post?Deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00030100170770594843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post-58675713901536762602009-11-12T18:41:16.912-05:002009-11-12T18:41:16.912-05:00Lauren, catching up on Dream Kitchen. Fabulous. Wh...Lauren, catching up on Dream Kitchen. Fabulous. What a sense of place. And, so sad for you. I'm sorry. I remember you telling me about Uncle Fred and your ties to Seattle, but this paints a clear picture. I felt like I was there. When my grandmother's house sold, bungalow that it was, I cried real tears. But it, too, has survived via a string of new owners (one of whom, albeit, ripped out all the old original knotty pine walls). I stop by every few years, knock on the door, and ask to look around. I'm always met with surprise yet friendliness, and thus I get my fix. I hope someone does great things with it (and I suppose wtih the filming, they already are).Carpe Diemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17808165293643351387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post-73600754619051634442009-10-29T14:05:11.138-04:002009-10-29T14:05:11.138-04:00I was hoping that the ending to this story was tha...I was hoping that the ending to this story was that you bought the house on 700 West Kinnear Place.The house may have been changed dramatically but the foundation still retained it's soul.<br />Great story.Velvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16034246333318823700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post-31875651815446344602009-10-27T07:27:05.436-04:002009-10-27T07:27:05.436-04:00Wonderful story, Lauren. I have one place that hol...Wonderful story, Lauren. I have one place that holds that emotional investment and saw it this summer. It still holds the power to move me.Crissiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18030717984784405805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post-23447315725179635262009-10-24T06:07:07.685-04:002009-10-24T06:07:07.685-04:00Wow. What a great post. I delayed feeding the ca...Wow. What a great post. I delayed feeding the cats to read it.elsewherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15201501156740807013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post-91164538276059219272009-10-23T13:47:49.968-04:002009-10-23T13:47:49.968-04:00Lauren, when things hold sentimental value it'...Lauren, when things hold sentimental value it's tough to put a price on it. I can see why it is painful and why you have good memories of it. Although my family members have never been millionaires, I know what you are feeling. Even though it's a house, there are so many memories, so many smells, lights, breezes, pies, holidays...<br /><br />It's the good stuff you miss. The good news is that your kids will feel the same way someday. About some place.Domestic Goddesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05034924702019610611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post-28373347272550622632009-10-23T11:01:40.973-04:002009-10-23T11:01:40.973-04:00A couple of things to think about though - the fac...A couple of things to think about though - the fact that the house was preserved, improved, and added on to means something - it wasn't torn down.<br /><br />Fred may bot have liked what was being done to the place, but he did sell it, with no effort made to register it as a historic building, introduced no deed restrictions as to what could or could not be done with it after the sale. When you sell a place like that under such conditions, you're saying "goodbye" to the place!<br /><br />True, its original character is gone, but so is Uncle Fred, and Aunt Arlene, and Nana, the folks who actually lived in the place. We live all the way across the country from Seattle, and have no real connection to that old house now, or ever, really. It's a place in our family's history, not even really our history. It's not as if we grew up there or spent any significant time there. 676 Wallace Drive, or the quarters in K-town, have more real-life connection to us.<br /><br />The place in Seattle had acquired only symbolic significance to us, and "symbolic" can translate pretty easily to "imaginary". As Army brats, with no real "home", we decided to call Fred's house home, even though it never was ours. Like Canadians who imagine they have a connection with a royal palace in England, we imagined Fred's old house to represent us, somehow. But it only carried first-hand, and truly significant, memories for Fred and his sister - there the real-world connection ends for the family. Its status to us as a symbol is just a mental construct.<br /><br />The world changes - in 2000, a house like that overlooking Seattle with it's new wealthy class and booming hi-tech industry was the perfect site to construct something that held significance for what was happening at that time. It became a modern mansion for a millionaire, as opposed to an old Victorian house for a millionaire, which is what it was for Fred. Today's millionaire wants something different than what Fred's generation wanted, I suppose.Dan McKinneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17894533692096816181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127653.post-315826985644590882009-10-22T20:53:12.773-04:002009-10-22T20:53:12.773-04:00Great story Lauren! Sorry it didn't work out f...Great story Lauren! Sorry it didn't work out for you guys to live there :( And what a great obituary for your uncle too!Marciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14802642092432266860noreply@blogger.com