Community service ideas for teens
For teens, being a volunteer means so much, not only to building their character and generous spirit going into adulthood, but also as a way to fulfill their community service […]
Porch perfect: 11 local spaces maximizing outdoor living
The countdown is on: one month ‘til summer. If you ask us, that’s just early enough to start moving the party outside. We’ve rounded up 13 of our favorite outdoor […]
Shuffle the deck: Changing up rooms refreshes a Rugby kitchen
A stone house looks very permanent from the outside, but big changes can occur within. Though the Rugby neighborhood house that Hyam Hosny and Eric Spooner bought in 2009 was […]
In the right light: Behind a historic home, a landscape for night and day
A house that’s been standing since before the Civil War can demand a lot of attention from its owner. Such was the case with Matt and Tricia Lucas’ home, a Free […]
Call and response: For Dave Ackerman, architecture is about creative problem solving
Local architect Dave Ackerman (of architecture firm Wolf Ackerman Design) graduated from both Princeton and the University of Virginia, co-founded Formwork Design and spent 11 years as an adjunct faculty […]
Up on the housetop: Replacing your roof? Here’s what you should know
Hate to break it to you, but that tin roof on your love shack is rusted. Time for a replacement. What are your options? Bruce Martin, an estimator and project […]
At home with… Winifred Wegmann
After working at Crème de la Crème for the past nine years, store manager Winifred Wegmann noticed something: “I came to realize how much pleasure I take from helping people […]
Reading outside the box: Albemarle’s Northside Library caters to a modern crowd
The new Northside Library, on Rio Road, says anything but “Shhhh.” From the outside, it’s positively jaunty, with aqua-blue and goldenrod-yellow accents dressing up the brick exterior, and surprising diagonals […]
Seeing daylight: Keith Scott brightens up an Albemarle farmhouse
To hear Keith Scott tell it, the house his client started with was almost worse than no house at all. “It was one of those early-’80s, quasi-farmhouse suburban houses that […]
Virginia wine time
Not so long ago, the best wine was European, and good American wine was Californian. Period. Virginia oenophiles knew that Thomas Jefferson had tried and failed to make a drinkable […]