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,...
Home Ideas
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...
Is the Housing Market Making You Moody? Influencing Design Trends in 2023
By Erica Jevons Sizemore Featured Photo by mixphotos/Shutterstock.com This is part of an ongoing series: What is Making the Triangle Area so Desirable? With record-high gas prices, a housing market boom, and global uncertainty, it hasn’t been an easy transition back...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Eastern Wake County — Hotter than Hot: Living in Knightdale, Wendell and Zebulon
By Kelly McCall Branson Featured Photo: Encore at Wendell Falls; Photo Courtesy of David Weekley Homes As more and more people flock to the Triangle and land here becomes ever more scarce, eyes are turning to Wake County’s last “frontier” — its eastern side and the...
Native Gardens: Supporting Local Businesses and Your Local Environment
By Carl Johnson, Carl Johnson Real Estate Featured Photo by Isaiah N Lilly/Shutterstock.com The Triangle is literally in bloom this time of year! Surrounded by vibrant greens, the work in the garden is just getting started and the seemingly never ending battle of...
What I Learned From Purchasing a Fixer-upper During a Pandemic
Interiors and Article By Steve Marraffino, Principal Designer, Marracar Design Photography by Catherine Nguyen The Pandemic taught us many things: How to cut our hair by watching YouTube videos, how to conserve toilet paper, contactless grocery shopping, the joy of...
The Distance Traveled: A Look at Real Estate Destinations
By Erica Jevons Sizemore Featured Photo By Gray Moeller/Shutterstock.com This is part of an ongoing series: What is Making the Triangle Area so Desirable? With more than 320 miles of coastline, dozens of lakes and the breathtaking peaks of the beautiful Blue Ridge...
Exploring Our Neighbors to the South: Garner and Clayton
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...
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...