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New Homes & Ideas Fall ’23 Digital Issue

New Homes & Ideas Fall ’23 Digital Issue

Features Measure Twice, Cut Once: Building a Parade Home From Drab to Fab: How Furniture Showrooms are Redefining Home Design Ashley Christensen: Building Community One Bite at a Time Departments International Community of Interior Designers New Home Directories...

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Measure Twice, Cut Once: Building a Parade Home

Measure Twice, Cut Once: Building a Parade Home

By Erica Jevons Sizemore Featured Photo courtesy of Leszek Glasner/Shutterstock.com Each fall, we welcome the annual Triangle Parade of Homes, a showcase by area builders of their new construction homes at all levels of finish and price point.  The builders who...

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Ashley Christensen: Building Community One Bite at a Time

Ashley Christensen: Building Community One Bite at a Time

By Kelly McCall Branson Featured Photo: Ashley Christensen; Photo by Paul Mehaffy Raleigh is a great place to live. The accolades regularly showered on this city and the thousands of newcomers who flock here every year are testament to that. Sure, the mild climate,...

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The Heart of the Triangle: Cary and Morrisville

The Heart of the Triangle: Cary and Morrisville

By Kelly McCall Branson Featured Photo: Koka Booth Amphitheatre on Symphony Lake; Photo by Wileydoc/Shutterstock.com Just west of Raleigh’s city limits, the town of Cary has enjoyed a reputation for outstanding quality of life for decades. Since the 1960s, the town...

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Triangle Moves: There’s Something for Everyone

Triangle Moves: There’s Something for Everyone

This is part of an ongoing series: What is Making the Triangle Area so Desirable? Erica Jevons Sizemore Photos Courtesy of Homes By Dickerson Everyday internet search engines receive thousands of queries about home buying and top real estate locations.  Whether...

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New Homes & Ideas Summer ’23 Digital Issue

New Homes & Ideas Summer ’23 Digital Issue

Features Triangle Moves: There's Something for Everyone The Homework Assignment: Designing a New Generation of Offices The Heart of the Triangle: Cary and Morrisville Departments Home Products, Services, and Remodeling Ideas International Community of Interior...

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The Top Five Reasons to Hire an Interior Designer

The Top Five Reasons to Hire an Interior Designer

By Shanna Middleton – Founder and CEO of the International Community of Interior Designers (ICID)Are you embarking on an interior design project and wondering whether hiring an interior designer is worth it? The truth is that an interior designer can offer valuable...

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The Undeniable Draw to Raleigh

The Undeniable Draw to Raleigh

By Kelly McCall Branson Featured Photo By Bryan Regan/shutterstock.com With a population approaching a half-million, Raleigh, the state’s capital, is the second largest city in North Carolina and the largest in the Triangle. And the quality-of-life big picture for...

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The Start Up Ecosystem

The Start Up Ecosystem

By Erica Jevons Sizemore Featured Photo by Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com This is part of an ongoing series: What is Making the Triangle Area so Desirable? The Triangle, made up of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, is an innovation and technology hub where creativity...

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New Homes & Ideas Spring ’23 Digital Issue

New Homes & Ideas Spring ’23 Digital Issue

Features The Start Up Ecosystem The Top Five Reasons to Hire an Interior Designer The Undeniable Draw to Raleigh Departments Home Products, Services, and Remodeling Ideas International Community of Interior Designers New Home Directories Our new home...

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Northern Exposure — New Frontiers for the Triangle

Northern Exposure — New Frontiers for the Triangle

Youngsville and Franklinton Offer Room to Grow Featured Photo: Winston Ridge; Photo courtesy of The Jim Allen Group By Kelly McCall Branson We all know the Triangle is a popular place to call home. With all it has to offer — a mild climate, award-winning schools,...

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Five Ways to Make your Kitchen a Winter Wonderland!

Five Ways to Make your Kitchen a Winter Wonderland!

By Sandra Moncada-Mainz, Couture Haus Interior Design Photos by Cat Wilborne Photography The kitchen is the heart of any home, so this is the perfect place to bring joy and winter enthusiasm into your life! Stuck on where to start? Here are some of our favorite winter...

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New Homes & Ideas Winter ’23 Digital Issue

New Homes & Ideas Winter ’23 Digital Issue

Features IS THE HOUSING MARKET MAKING YOU MOODY? INFLUENCING DESIGN TRENDS IN 2023 FIVE WAYS TO MAKE YOUR KITCHEN A WINTER WONDERLAND! NORTHERN EXPOSURE - NEW FRONTIERS FOR THE TRIANGLE Departments Home Products, Services, and Remodeling Ideas Alliance of Interior...

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Six Ways to Bring More Joy to Your Office

Six Ways to Bring More Joy to Your Office

By Heather Jennings, Designer Featured Photo by Erin Comerford The office is the place where ideas and innovation happen. The workplace is at the center of where we spend the majority of our time.  There is one important aspect that is very often overlooked,...

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Exploring Durham: Neighborhoods and more

Exploring Durham: Neighborhoods and more

By Carl Johnson, Carl Johnson Real Estate Featured Photo by Sean Pavone/Shutterstock.com This issue, we explore the northern tip of our Triangle, featuring the highlights that make up Durham, North Carolina. As the middleman between smaller Chapel Hill and larger...

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It’s All Here! A Visit to the Triangle

It’s All Here! A Visit to the Triangle

By Erica Jevons Sizemore Featured Photo: Artsplosure Art Festival in Raleigh; By Wileydoc/Shutterstock.com This is part of an ongoing series: What is Making the Triangle Area so Desirable? North Carolina is known across the country as a popular vacation spot for its...

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New Homes & Ideas Fall 2022 Issue

New Homes & Ideas Fall 2022 Issue

Features IT'S ALL HERE! A VISIT TO THE TRIANGLEEXPLORING DURHAM: NEIGHBORHOODS AND MORESIX WAYS TO BRING MORE JOY TO YOUR OFFICE Departments Home Products, Services, and Remodeling IdeasAlliance of Interior Designers New Home Directories Our new home...

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New Homes & Ideas Summer 2022 Digital Issue

New Homes & Ideas Summer 2022 Digital Issue

Features THE DISTANCE TRAVELED: A LOOK AT REAL ESTATE DESTINATIONSEASTERN WAKE COUNTY – HOTTER THAN HOT: LIVING IN KNIGHTDALE, WENDELL AND ZEBULONWHAT I LEARNED FROM PURCHASING A FIXER-UPPER DURING A PANDEMICNATIVE GARDENS: SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESSES AND YOUR LOCAL...

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