Ask any person to identify the signature hardwoods of Western North Carolina’s mountains. They’ll chat of chestnut, oaks, maple, walnut, and probably hickory. Lacking from most everyone’s checklist will be the most closely harvested hardwood—the one particular extensively used by everybody from ancestors of the Cherokee folks to makers of […]
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New Lake Vista cottage designed to retain sense of history | Home/Garden
When retirees Bruce and Jim Gaynor asked architect Lindsay Woolf to design a cozy Lake Vista cottage that wouldn’t feel like new construction, Woolf, no stranger to historic houses, nailed the main features of the architecture with her first set of drawings. “Fifty percent of my work is historic houses,” said […]
Full of history. Full of clutter. There’s a big beautiful mess of a room at the heart of Norfolk
Colin Warren-Hicks The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK — A gleaming hand-painted bronze sign reading “Veni Vidi Vici” hangs above a wall of stained paint cans, dividing a vast work floor from a second-story mezzanine. The work floor is 100 feet by 100 feet and contains band saws, table saws and steel saws, […]