Traditional wisdom says fall is a great time to buy appliances, as that’s when manufacturers crank out new models and retailers drop the price on older equipment. But, according to several local retailers, that’s not necessarily so. “I wouldn’t say there is a typical timeframe,” says Jeff Kramer, a sales consultant for the local outpost […]
Traditional wisdom says fall is a great time to buy appliances, as that’s when manufacturers crank out new models and retailers drop the price on older equipment. But, according to several local retailers, that’s not necessarily so. “I wouldn’t say there is a typical timeframe,” says Jeff Kramer, a sales consultant for the local outpost […]
The September issue of Abode is on stands now (and find a digital copy below). Here’s what’s inside… A Q&A with Alloy Workshop architect and co-owner Dan Zimmerman. New dorms on Alderman Road. The low-down on what you should be looking for in a built-in. A peek inside designer/retailer Moyanne Harding‘s Lynchburg home. A woody […]
One thing about first-year college students: Year after year, they just keep showing up. In pursuit of better places for those folks to bed down, UVA has spent the last nine years building eight new structures on Alderman Road, a massive project that replaces older dorms built in the 1960s. With the first new building, […]
Your kid is struggling in school. You could get him a tutor. You could motivate him to work harder. You could provide all the love and support needed to make him want to be a better student. Or you could just buy him a desk so nice he won’t be able to stay away from […]
Each one bigger and better than before—that’s how interior designer Moyanne Harding describes each of her four retail shops, the first of which she opened in 1994, just three years after establishing her design business, Interiors by Moyanne. A fifth location, The Downtown Design Center in Lynchburg, opens this month. Harding graduated from Randolph Macon […]
You’d never know that Peter and Angela D.’s house, just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, isn’t brand new. Looking sharp in its ipe siding and modern lines, it appears to be a newly minted creation of Charlottesville design-build firm STOA, which just finished revamping it last December. What’s perhaps even more surprising is that it […]
The more dramatic the house, the more challenging it is to create an appropriate landscape surrounding it. When Jim and Cynthia Stultz built their Western Albemarle house in 2000, architects Daggett & Grigg drew them a plan for an imposing Palladian-style home, including an ambitious hardscape that featured a high semicircular stone wall along the […]
“I didn’t know what my future would hold, but I wanted to spend my time in college drawing and making things.” That’s Dan Zimmerman on his visit to Virginia Tech, the school from where he’d later graduate with a degree in architecture. A constant sketcher growing up, Zimmerman was interested in art but wasn’t sure how […]
What do you want with a big old house in the woods? This listing, a 4,000- square-foot home outside Madison, seems to invite far-flung ideas. Sure, it could be a family home, as it has been since it was built in 1986. But something about it suggests that it’s ripe for repurposing. We’ll muse on […]
The August issue of Abode is on stands now. Here’s what’s inside… A Q&A with landscape designer, author and lecturer Cole Burrell. A look inside interior designer Marta Tice’s favorite room in her home. The debate about dining rooms: Are formal spaces on their way out? A converted Batesville schoolhouse with plenty of possibilities. This […]