We’re all affected by design. A mediocre building, says VMDO founding principal Bob Moje, degrades the world we all share. “Every act of building is embedded with enormous potential to […]
Devils Backbone has been a mainstay of the local brewery scene since 2008. With its imposing building and its beautiful Nelson County site, it’s highly visible to Wintergreen-bound visitors, and […]
Sometimes it takes actually setting foot in a tiny house to know just how tiny tiny houses are. Perhaps that’s why several local housing experts are skeptical of the movement […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]