Maximum Effort, Minimalist Effect
Polished modern residence required close collaboration A gabled roof and a grand piano are the two classical gestures in this deeply intentional South Asheville…
Of Bunnies and Men
Bender Gallery hosts art star Hunt Slonem in June Hunt Slonem is the Andy Warhol of bunnies, birds, and butterflies. His oils have hung…
Stone’s Throw from Modern
Cotswolds in the front, contemporary in the back — that’s the short take on this stately second home, styled like a European manor house…
The Oasis With Everything
Industrial chic meets cabaret glamour For an ex-New Yorker who loves his animals and his privacy, moving to the Asheville area was all about finding…
Winter Warmer
If you know how to build your own bunk room, it naturally follows that you’ll pick the right island-top material for your kitchen, say,…
Town and Country
The antique telephone booth weighed one ton and required nine men to ease it into place through a hole in the roof. It was…
Gestures of Empire
It’s a wedding-cake house, and not the modern minimalist kind smoothed in fondant, either. Some 182 years after it was built, Saluda Cottages remains…
Cool Breeze
With real elevation comes real responsibilities, so when Kevin Reed, owner of BlueStone Construction, carved out a dream home for Kirk and Minette Johnson…
High-Stamina Refinement
Though hardly reined in, size wise, at 7,400 square feet, this modern equestrian estate in Mill Spring is “intentionally low-slung and relatively understated,” says…
Many Happy Returns
Moose, an 11-pound toy poodle, and McGee, an 85-pound English Goldendoodle, are plenty cute all on their own. Together, though, the yin and yang…