By Kelly McCall Branson Featured Photo: Renovated Businesses in Historic Downtown Garner; Photo by Wileydoc/Shutterstock.com As we continue exploring the many cities, towns and villages that make up the greater Triangle, this issue, we’ll head south from downtown...
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Finding a Price to Call Home: A New Construction & Residential Real Estate Outlook
Erica Jevons Sizemore Featured Photo By Simon Bratt/Shutterstock.com This is part of an ongoing series: What is Making the Triangle Area so Desirable? With nearly 25,000 people per year moving into Wake County, by 2030 another quarter million people will be living...
BE A STATEMENT MAKER
INTERIORS AND ARTICLE BY TONYA HILL, OPALUS DESIGNS PHOTOGRAPHY BY JW MOTION & STILL FIND YOURSELF BEING STAGNANT IN THE SAME DECORATING DOLDRUMS YET ANOTHER YEAR AND CRAVING SOME INSPIRED MOTIVATION FOR YOUR HOME’S...
New Homes & Ideas Spring 2022 Digital Issue
Features FINDING A PRICE TO CALL HOME EXPLORING OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH: GARNER & CLAYTON BE A STATEMENT MAKER Departments Home Products, Services, and Remodeling IdeasAlliance of Interior Designers New Home Directories Our new home...
Is the Open Floor Plan Going Out of Style in 2022?
By Laura Koshel, LK Design Photos by Catherine Nguyen It was very interesting to watch how home designs and interior design trends changed during the pandemic. After spending more time working or studying from home, many homeowners realized that some of the spaces in...
Go West: Exploring the Triangle’s Western Edge
By Kelly McCall Branson Featured Photo: Morehead Planetarium and Science Center; Photo Courtesy of KAD Photo/Shutterstock.com In our continuing series exploring the different regions that make up the greater Triangle, we now turn to the environs around one of its main...
Redefining the Luxury Market
This is part of an ongoing series: What is Making the Triangle Area so Desirable? By Erica Jevons Sizemore Featured Image: Montreaux; Photo courtesy of The Jim Allen Group There is a symbiotic relationship between wealth and real estate. According to a report...
Opalus Designs
MODERN REFINEMENTS FOR CLASSIC INTERIORS Gracious LivingUnderstated EleganceBeautifully DeliveredMember of The Alliance of Interior Designers Tonya Hill, Principal Owner and Designer of the boutique firm Opalus Designs, LLC understands just how transformative the aura...
Hamrick & Galanis, PLLC
Where Closings Get Done! The attorneys in our office have cumulatively served the community for over 35 years. Hamrick & Galanis provides both residential and commercial real estate closings, as well as estate planning. Residential & Commercial real estate...
LK Design
LK Design is a full-service interior design firm proudly serving clients in the Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, Apex, etc.) of North Carolina. At LK Design, we take the overwhelm out of your interior design projects and make the process enjoyable...
Five Reasons Why This is the Season to Buy a New Home
Featured Photo: Barrington Townes; Photo Courtesy of The Jim Allen Group We can’t believe it’s already fall, with the holiday season quickly approaching. Stores are starting to put out holiday decor, and Thanksgiving will be here before you know it. It’s usually a...
How to Find a Reputable Interior Designer for Your Triangle Home
Featured Photo: Interior Design by Otrada Design LLC, Photography by Raif Fluker Photography Have you ever found yourself overwhelmed with all of the options and choices you have when it comes to your home? Or maybe, you just don’t have an eye for design and you’re...
Five Trends Home Buyers Desire in Master-Planned Communities
Featured Photo: Encore at Wendell Falls; Photo Courtesy of David Weekley Homes Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on the housing market left us with many questions to be answered. Nonetheless, those quickly deteriorated as the importance of home took...
Two of the 2022 Colors of the Year are Here
Featured Photo by gfdunt/Shutterstock.com Who would have thought that one of the most anticipated moments of the year for the home building and interior design industry is when the Color of the Year is announced? Just recently, we witnessed two paint companies release...
These Three Communities Are Coming Soon To the Triangle
Featured Photo: Stillhouse Farms; Photo Courtesy of Meritage Homes It’s no secret that the housing market is still hotter than ever. What’s even more shocking is the price of rent across the United States. According to research, rent jumped 11.5% from August 2020 to...
Living Luxurious in the Triangle
Featured Photo: Jordan Pointe; Photo Courtesy of The Jim Allen Group It’s no secret that there are plenty of indelible single-family homes across the Triangle for budgets of all sizes and shapes. Nonetheless, the luxury home market is one that continues to attract...
You Might Want To Know These Fall 2021 Building & Decor Trends
Featured Photo by L_Interiors/Shutterstock.com Although we’re not quite seeing the leaves begin to change yet here in the Triangle, for all intents and purposes - fall is upon us. After a hot summer, we are looking forward to the crisp, cool days of autumn. Along with...
Your Triangle Home’s October Checklist
Featured Photo by Andy Dean Photography/Shutterstock.com October in the Raleigh-Durham area is one of the best months of the year. The leaves begin to change, temperatures start to cool down outside, and there are so many fun fall activities happening around us. Oh,...
What to Look Forward to at the Triangle’s Parade of Homes
Featured Photo: Providence at Southpoint; Courtesy of David Weekley Homes Every October, we get to look forward to some of the most incredible homes in the Raleigh-Durham area on display at the Triangle’s Parade of Homes. Each weekend for the next two weeks, you can...
Modern Nomads: Living a minimalist lifestyle while maximizing adventure
Interior Design by Shanna Middleton Photopraphy by Catherine Nguyen Photo Styling by Heidi Donohue My husband and I have begun a new and adventurous chapter in our lives that neither could have imagined just a couple of years ago. If it hadn't been for a few...
The Many Points of Our Triangle: Calling Southwest Wake County Home
By Kelly McCall Branson Featured Photo: Downtown Apex; Photo by Wileydoc/Shutterstock.com For the second installment in our series exploring the towns and villages that make up the greater Triangle area — outside its official points of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill...
A Framework for Education
This is part of an ongoing series: What is Making the Triangle Area so Desirable? Featured Image: Duke University; Photo courtesy of Bryan Pollard/Shutterstock.com In the Triangle, it should come as no surprise that education at every level is a top priority for...
This Is A Must-See Community in Chatham County
Photos Courtesy of The Vineyards at Chatham Park By Kendra Stowe Tucked in the rolling hills of North Carolina, the Triangle area offers some of the best communities for families and those looking to relocate to the Old North State. With nearly 75,000 residents,...
The U.S. News & World Report Ranks Raleigh-Durham as No. 2 Place to Live in 2021
Featured Photo by ESB Professional/Shutterstock.com The news is in. The U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Raleigh-Durham area as the No. 2 place in the United States to live in with the release of their annual list of top areas to live. Aside from what we...