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Along the Hillsborough Post Road

Imagine stepping out your front door into a yard of gigantic pecan trees and magnolias. There’s Osage-orange or Hedge-apple trees, whose large, latex-filled multiple fruits turn a lovely yellow-green in autumn. Cedars, maples and oaks surround pastures, fields and trails leading to the western edge of conservation lands surrounding Cane Creek Reservoir.

Published: May. 28, 2013 10:09 AM | Full story

Rocking in the heart of Carrboro

If you love all things Carrboro, there’s an Arts and Crafts-style bungalow with a rocking chair front porch in the heart of town that is waiting for you. It is the historic William Strayhorn house with heart pine flooring, exposed eave brackets, and a view of Kenan Stadium’s July 4th fireworks -- from the roof outside one of the second-floor bedrooms.

Published: May. 28, 2013 10:08 AM | Full story

Find a perfect Cape Cod at Morgan Creek

Cyndy and James B. Blackburn moved from Durham’s beautiful Forest Hills neighborhood to one of Chapel Hill’s Morgan Creek neighborhoods nine years ago. It shortened the commute time for both of them.

Published: Apr. 26, 2013 3:33 PM | Full story

Out in the country

Connie Slaughter is getting ready to move to Nashville, Tennessee, to be near her grandchildren. The stucco contemporary house she has lived in for the past seven years north of Hillsborough is ready for new owners. Slaughter and her husband cleared a little over an acre of the 10-acre tract upon which the house and an over-sized, two-car garage sit. The couple created a backyard garden space and a stone walk to reach it. The land is gently rolling with an intermittent stream downhill from the house.

Published: Apr. 26, 2013 3:24 PM | Full story

Area green homes open for viewing

Whether you live in Wake, Durham, Orange or Chatham counties, there will be a green-built home finished or under construction for you to see during the eighth annual green home tour in the Triangle. Sponsored by the Green Home Builders of the Triangle, this free, self-guided tour will feature 25 homes in a wide variety of designs. Since some of the homes are still under construction, visitors will be able to see what’s behind the walls that make these houses energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

Published: Apr. 16, 2013 2:19 PM | Full story

Saving grace

In Hillsborough’s historic district, an I-house stands on an elevated hill at the corner of West King Street and South Hillsborough Avenue waiting to be loved. The traditional North Carolina farmhouse dates back to 1850 when it was built by a David Anderson. It’s changed hands several times — including serving as home to D.W. Parks, one-time owner of the Colonial Inn, and Hillsborough’s prominent Cates family. The Herb Cates family bought the house around the 1920s — along with all the parcels on the block, which were bought by brothers Fred and Scott Cates.

Published: Mar. 12, 2013 12:40 PM | Full story

Discovering Warrenton

Sometimes a house surprises you. Sometimes a town does, too. When it comes time to find a place to retire, experienced house hunters know to scout the location as well as the house. Retiring to a circa 1760 fixer-upper in a rural village in France sounded more idyllic than it turned out to be for Renate Hall and Joan Arbuthnot. The two had lived in various large cities around the U.S. and Europe during their careers with an airline. Retiring to a quiet, uncomplicated life held appeal.

Published: Mar. 12, 2013 12:34 PM | Full story

Historic properties hold many options

A historic house on a quiet street in Pittsboro and a cornucopia of cabins and a Federal-style farmhouse on 15 acres just over the Chatham County line in Randolph County come with several options for use by interested buyers.

Published: Mar. 12, 2013 12:14 PM | Full story

ROCK SOLID

Willing to exchange a 15-minute drive for lower taxes and larger lots? Look at FieldStone, a new-home neighborhood in northern Chatham County, just south of Chapel Hill and west of RTP.

Published: Jan. 7, 2013 10:13 AM | Full story

Dream come true

Hillsborough resident Bartow Culp leans on the old library card catalog he turned into a spice cupboard as gestures toward the view of his back yard as seen from the kitchen/living room addition in his renovated Hillsborough home. Local architect Fred Stewart designed the expansion of Culp’s 1912 Edwardian-style brick home in downtown Hillsborough.

Published: Nov. 30, 2012 12:22 PM | Full story

She’s not in  Kansas anymore

The three-bedroom, 2.5 bath townhouses available now in Ballentine have single-car garages and covered back patios.

Published: Nov. 25, 2012 7:00 AM | Full story

Little cottages with  big appeal

When Barnette Crabtree started developing neighborhoods in North Carolina, the 1972 Duke University graduate began in Durham. Several of the city’s finest neighborhoods bear his signature, including American Village, Hardscrabble Plantation, Hopewell, Lennox, Marydell Estates, Snow Hill Preserve, Surrey Green, Stephen’s Woods and Vantage Pointe.

Published: Oct. 21, 2012 3:00 AM | Full story

Do You Feel Lucky?

What do you do when the place you want to live is out of reach because you already have a house with a mortgage in another place?

Published: Oct. 15, 2012 12:38 PM | Full story

Winning homes on Parade

The Home Builders Association (HBA) of Durham, Orange and Chatham Counties has announced the 2012 Parade of Homes winners. Homes on Parade were divided into price categories and judged by teams of builders and new home professionals from other markets.

Published: Oct. 5, 2012 11:24 AM | Full story

Out of the ashes

Carrboro couple rebuilds after losing home to fire

Published: Sep. 17, 2012 8:59 AM | Full story

Doing your home work

When you need the lawn seeded, a bathroom tiled, your house reorganized or redecorated – where do you turn to find reputable professionals? Since 2009, many Triangle residents have been joining HOCOA (Homeowners Contractors Association).

Published: Sep. 9, 2012 12:02 AM | Full story

‘Nanofarm’ gives local family a way to get back to the land

Tom Grizzle’s back yard used to be a forest. Now if you walk into it, you’ll see a pocket farm or what the Chapel Hill resident likes to call his “backyard nanofarm.”

Published: Sep. 2, 2012 2:53 PM | Full story

Get the Wet Out

With all the summer storms and a yard that seems to stay wet for far too long, my husband is convinced we need some French drains. I talked to two landscapers about what’s involved and received inspiration from a homeowner who installed her own.

Published: Aug. 20, 2012 11:21 AM | Full story

Back in the Big Apple

Susie and Ogden Lewis, New York City natives, love living in the Big Apple. The couple has an apartment near Hunter College which makes attending concerts at Lincoln Center or shows on and off Broadway an easy commute. What’s not to love? Yet nine years ago, the couple took a Southern swing to Fearrington Village, where they say they also had a marvelous time – so marvelous they bought a townhouse there.

Published: Aug. 20, 2012 10:34 AM | Full story

Sharing the family farm

Miles of horse riding trails, some along the South Fork of the Little River. A big pond for swimming and fishing. Open meadows for playing. Dense woodlands where Robin Hood’s merry men may be hiding. An old restored barn for parties. A grain silo and milking parlor. And nearby, a farmer tends Angus cattle grazing in verdant fields.

Published: Jul. 15, 2012 10:43 AM | Full story

Making a  house a home

It’s funny how welcome you feel when you walk into some homes. It’s more than the staging of furniture or a familiar scent like bread baking. It may be the way light filters through the windows or the choice of paints in combination with brick and mortar and all of the other elements that go into building a home.

Published: Jul. 8, 2012 8:46 AM | Full story

Making connections

Liz Iftikhar went to an estate sale in 2009 and fell in love – not with a highboy dresser or wrought iron chaise lounge – but with the courtyard setting of the property itself. And what’s not to like about any home in Greenwood – a historic Chapel Hill neighborhood that hugs the university’s Battle Park, a deeply wooded tract which has been, since 2004, under the aegis of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, a unit of the university.

Published: Jun. 24, 2012 5:10 AM | Full story