Fair play Strap on your bicycle helmets and shake out your reusable canvas totes: It’s time for Eco-Fair 2010! With plenty of activities for children (Bike Rodeo, anyone?!) and more booths than you can shake an organic seed packet at, this year’s Eco-Fair promises to be quite a celebration. As part of Earth Week, Eco-Fair […]
Fair play Strap on your bicycle helmets and shake out your reusable canvas totes: It’s time for Eco-Fair 2010! With plenty of activities for children (Bike Rodeo, anyone?!) and more booths than you can shake an organic seed packet at, this year’s Eco-Fair promises to be quite a celebration. As part of Earth Week, Eco-Fair […]
What’s black and white and green all over? Answer: the new column called Green Living. It’ll have much in common with the Green Scene blog I’ve been writing for a year and a half on c-ville.com, but Green Living will be most at home in the print version of C-VILLE Weekly. Consider this page a […]
Flights of fancy What is home sweet home when you’re a feathered descendent of the dinosaurs? Well, if there are friendly humans in the neighborhood, it might mean one of these charming birdhouses from Wild Birds Unlimited. Move-in condition; great for raising a family. Wren house, $18.99. One remote to rule […]
Mustard greens: The brassiest brassica The mustard plant is a member of the brassica family—that’s right, brother to broccoli, cousin to cauliflower—and may be the brassiest vegetable that finds its way onto our table. Mustard greens grow in a fashion similar to kale, collards and chard, with thick stems and long, broad leaves that fan […]
The fashion underground Problem: Finding space and privacy for a maturing teen When Mary Casell renovated her Woolen Mills home, she bucked the advice of others by making a significant investment in the basement. Choosing to compromise on budget elsewhere, she splurged on reclaimed hardwood floors and gave the semi-subterranean level the same thoughtful fit […]
From the unfinished great room on the main floor, built on piers to lend an illusion of floating in mid-air, John Forasté points out a far-off hillside filled with orderly dots of bare trees. Apple orchards, he says. In the distance are grazing cattle, clearly visible against the thick snow. Foraste’s half-built house is seated […]
Buyers know they hold the cards in the current lackluster housing market, but there’s one obstacle they might be wary of: misrepresentations by home sellers. Nationwide, there have been reports of eager sellers exaggerating square footage and acreage, minimizing property taxes or utility bills, conveniently forgetting about past problems with termites or insisting that charming […]
No matter how nice the rest of your house is, guests will gather and even force themselves into your kitchen during parties. The kitchen, being such an integral part of the home, can really make or break a rental. When it comes to the kitchen, many renters often complain about a lack of storage, workspace/counterspace, […]
Traditionally, a sawhorse—a trestle with two A-frames for legs—is used to support a piece of wood for sawing or cutting, but there’s so much more to this toolshed beast of burden. Place two sawhorses together with a wide plank between, and you have a scaffold to support all kinds of projects. You can used […]
Elk Hill is the kind of place where, after you’ve rung the doorbell, you just happen to notice a plaque informing you that the property is part of the National Register of Historic Places. Commanding a bluff south of Nellysford, the 1805 house presents a formal face to drivers passing below on Rt. 151: white […]