Brown Furniture + Beyond
byThe 32nd National Arts and Crafts Conference will be held February 15-17 at Asheville’s Omni Grove Park Inn. Dubbed “the most important weekend of…
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The Best Laidback Plans
byLaurie Sprenger is a dietician from a big Italian family, and she likes to cook. But she and her husband Chris “don’t live in…
Old Homes Made New (and Vice Versa)
byTamara Gavin’s website, The Made Home, is endlessly engaging: equal parts design candy store, juicy tutorial, and reverent repository of architectural history. The…
Little Luxe Schoolhouse
byOil and water. Bulls and red. Stripes and dots. A tiny house bedecked in maximalism. All of these sound like dangerous pairings, but Erin…
Nice Guy (Faux) Finishes First
byThe ’80s and ’90s saw a domestic-painting craze. Walls were sponged, ragged, and stenciled in abundance. Initially a way to beautify the domains of…
To the Saddle Born
byFortuna Farm South sits right in the ring of foothills horse country. Here, equestrian estates dominate a conservancy of rural land and protected forest…
Re-Upping an Old Trade
by“I can walk around a project 100 times and think about how I’ll approach it,” declares Jenny Ellis, owner of Sittin’ Pretty Original Chair…
The Wright Stuff
byThis past February, architect Ryan McKibben and his new client walked a South Carolina property and then retreated to a conference room for a…
Let There Be Better Light
byNot unlike a graphic image’s negative space, lighting is an often overlooked element of interior design, according to Kayla Beavers, lead interior designer and…
The Next Cool Thing
byVacationers at a Woodfin property share a bird’s-eye view with whichever bird happens to land on the house’s support system. High among a grouping…