Home & Garden
I’ve been on a pantry kick lately – tackling a number of client pantries around the area. Truly, this is one of my favorite spaces to organize. It’s usually a contained space, can be transformed in just a day, and there are some fabulous tools that aren’t crazy expensive that […]
Do you have a box/drawer/cabinet/bin/closet that looks like the picture above? If you live in the United States and use any kind of technology, there’s a really good chance you do. While you may, on occasion, untangle one of those cords or cables and put it to good use, most […]
When Angela and Sam Eberts began searching for a home in Chapel Hill, they knew they needed something special. The pair had been living in a converted cookie factory in Chicago, and weren’t afraid of a renovation – but every home they saw seemed wrong. “We must have looked at […]
Watching nonstop hurricane and wildfire coverage for the last several weeks, it’s hard not to ride a roller coaster of emotions – excruciating loss and grief, and hope and healing when we see how we care for each other. Over and over again, watching people wade through waist-high water with […]
At the end of a gravel road, past a vegetable garden and surrounded by trees where honeybees, a pair of dogs and almost 20 egg-laying chickens make their home, it’s easy to forget how close one is to downtown Chapel Hill. In fact, an old farmhouse would fit right in […]
I’m 47 years old, and I’m taking swim lessons. And no, I don’t mean that I’m taking a master’s class or perfecting my freestyle for speed. I’m literally starting in the shallow end and learning to blow bubbles. It’s not that I can’t swim at all. If you threw me […]
HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? When UNC professor of anthropology James Peacock (now retired after 45 years) and his wife, Florence, an accomplished professional singer of the baroque classical variety, bought this downtown lot in 1990, “the property had become a wild jungle,” daughter Natalie Peacock-Corral says. But the couple […]
The drive to Botanical Way is lush, curving through tree-lined streets around Morgan Creek. Turn onto Botanical, and the houses are substantial in scale and distinct in style; each one is its own statement and verdant retreat. At the end of the cul-de-sac, Dale and Mary Carey’s home is no […]
Kids in the neighborhood call Lisa Bobst and Scott Evangelista’s new home in Carrboro off North Greensboro Street “the Lego house.” It’s a label that Lisa says she is honored by. The metal-sided home’s whimsical, modern lines welcome passers-by with pops of blue, red and cedar complementing a base slate […]
We’ve compiled a few of our favorite kitchens from previous issues to show you where your neighbors are cooking up and sharing their meals. Featured in our January/February 2017 issue, Sandra and Stephen Rich‘s home on East Franklin Street is recognizable by the rose garden out front and by the […]
