Home sweet home: Cottage please!
Moving is stressful. Moving to an old place that needs a gut renovation is more stressful. Fighting with your spouse every step of the way? That’s a major test. Jason […]
Building trust: For a Belmont farmhouse makeover, a couple gives their friends carte blanche
Enlisting your best friends to design and manage the renovation of your home can be a risky endeavor, particularly when you encourage them to exercise creative freedom in designing what […]
The DIY backyard: How to install a home landscape that’ll make you proud
We have all seen the perfectly groomed gardens on TV house-flipping shows and in magazines, including this one. Pinterest is a slideshow of landscapes that are intended to inspire creativity […]
A family home: The couple retired near Keswick, but the kids are always welcome
After meeting in college, the couple got married and pursued their respective careers—she as a librarian and he as a patent attorney—living for many years in Delaware. About two years […]
Heart of the townhome: A bright kitchen anchors a modern rowhouse
The Charlottesville woman grew up in California wine country—St. Helena, to be precise. Her home, where she lived until she was 16, had a farmhouse feel: open, airy, and not […]
Local turf: An Orange County farm for ready-made lawns
Ever wonder where those Yodels-like rolls of grass come from that you’ve seen stacked on pallets or laid out in front of a newly built home? From a sod farm, […]
Dramatic and Functional Stairway Statements
By Marilyn Pribus – It’s an iconic movie moment—Our Heroine sweeping down the dramatic curving staircase toward Our Hero or the Supporting Cast of 1,000. Of course most of us […]
Curb Appeal Sets Homes Apart
By Marilyn Pribus – You’ve probably heard the term “curb appeal” that often hovers over discussions of the marketability of a property, but just what is it? “Curb appeal is […]
Home Offices Are Popular
More and more, these days, people work from home, either full-time or part-time. As a home-based entrepreneur, however, you’ll soon find working with the computer in a corner of the […]
Questions to Ask Your Mortgage Lender
Here it is a new year and maybe this is the year for your new home. Whether you’re looking for your first mortgage or you’ve been down this road before, […]