Maximizing Minimalism
byOwners Mike and Clare Haislip envisioned a “Mountain Zen” air for their retirement home in The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, and it wasn’t just…
Kitchens + Baths
All in the Family
byHarrietta and Joe Deaton of Hendersonville have made a life’s work out of resuscitating unlovely spaces, so when the wife-and-husband team bought their own…
Farm to Drafting Table
byLiz Hackett avows that “every inch” of her North Asheville home gets used, thanks to sharing space with two teenage sons and an 11-year-old…
A Kitchen of One’s Own
byLori and Chris Nelson think outside the box — or, in this case, outside the blueprint. The Ramble homeowners acknowledge that most of today’s…
Best in Black and White
byWhip-smart collaboration is behind this ultramodern high-contrast kitchen in East Asheville’s Falcon Ridge community. Although they met periodically with their project team, Karen and…
To Every Season
byBricks came tumbling down when it came time to renovate David and Berdjette Barker’s 107-year-old farmhouse in Black Mountain — but not all of…
Double Eagle
byDuring the studs-up renovation of their Cliffs Valley home in Upstate South Carolina, owners Julie and Kris Atwood lived for five months in a…
Continental Breakfast
by“My background is in the performing arts, so I have an eye for space and aesthetics, thought I am not an interior designer by…
Crème de la Crème
by“In our Cajun heritage, the kitchen is the heart of the family,” says Donna Lemoine, who shares a warm, elegant retreat in Balsam Mountain…
A River Runs Through It
byAs befits a retired sailor, she waxes poetic about the water: Mary Jane “MJ” Klug refers to the “gin-clear” rivers of Western North Carolina,…