One out of every three people living in Orange County now lives in the countryside.
Published: Feb. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Root named president of builders association
Published: Feb. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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A microbiologist from Switzerland, a Hawaiian flower farmer, a New York advertising executive, a registered nurse from Ohio, a computer programmer, a confection broker from Pennsylvania, a computer systems designer, a domestic engineer, a French scie
Published: Feb. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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Habitat for Humanity of Orange County builds homes. Habitat builds opportunity for the families who live in and own those homes. And Habitat also builds bridges -- of the human kind.
Published: Feb. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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Lower taxes, lots more room drawing people to unincorporated Orange County.
Published: Feb. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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Published: Feb. 6, 2009 6:36 PM | Full story
Name: John Allore
Published: Feb. 1, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Zinn Design Build saw nine homes go under contract during the fourth quarter of 2008 at prices between $515,000 and $1.3 million.
Published: Feb. 1, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
I've heard it said that inclusionary housing can't work. The rationale for this assertion is usually one of the following: (1) you simply can't expect lower- income families to live happily in the same neighborhoods with upper-income famili
Published: Feb. 1, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Last month I talked about designing an edible landscape. Many gardeners started this process years ago by planting fruit trees and are wondering what to do next.
Published: Feb. 1, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
No 'little boxes' for this Carrboro father of three.
Published: Feb. 1, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Hathway named multi-builder rep
Published: Jan. 25, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
A couple who works for the Carolina Inn, longtime renters, moved into a brand new home of their own last year. A multi-generational family whose breadwinner is a single mother and a UNC employee, did the same. And so did another UNC employee, a singl
Published: Jan. 25, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Couple bought their two-story Chapel Hill home with renovations in mind.
Published: Jan. 18, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Poinsettias are native Mexican plants which have come a long way since they were introduced to the United States in 1825 by Joel Roberts Poinsettia, a botanist and the first U.S. ambassador to Mexico. Mr. Poinsettia was a southern plantation owner wh
Published: Jan. 18, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
January; the month of beginning again. A new year, a new president, new promises to live more healthy or become more organized -- another year for the chance to "get it right," whatever your personal "it" is. The buds in the trees are
Published: Jan. 18, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
On his Website, Smart describes TMH as "an award-winning nonprofit educational archive for cataloging, preserving, and advocating modernist residential design in the Triangle area of North Carolina." He defines modernist design as being "ch
Published: Jan. 11, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
COURTESY ROB FANJOY ON HGTV.COM
Published: Jan. 11, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Durham architect chronicles the modernist movement.
Published: Jan. 11, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Throughout this series on the effects of the economic downturn on our local economy, we have seen examples of how the refocusing and modification of our economic habits and actions, coupled with the intrinsic strength and fortitude of our local econo
Published: Jan. 11, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
In my last column I talked about the need for a comprehensive strategy to address the affordable housing issues of our community. Since that column appeared, a group of concerned citizens attended a forum about future growth and density in Chapel Hil
Published: Jan. 11, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
It was a festive pre-Thanksgiving meeting of the Greater Chapel Hill Association of Realtors that saw, for the first time, the installation of officers usually reserved for the December holiday gathering. Mark Zimmerman, president of RE/MAX Winning
Published: Dec. 2, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
Preservation Society tour adds an aura of mystery.
Published: Dec. 2, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
Downsizing doesn't have to mean cramped.
Published: Nov. 26, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
A distinguished UNC professor recently asked me how EmPOWERment Inc. adds value to our community. That's an excellent question. Here's a look at the return on investment in each of the three aspects of EmPOWERment's mission: home ownership,
Published: Nov. 26, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
The best of both worldsDeer, bluebirds and downtown Carrboro in just five minutes.
Published: Nov. 9, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
During the past several weeks the role sub-prime mortgages and the lure of homeownership have played in the downturn of the economy has been analyzed heavily in the media. Newsweek alone ran two articles in its Oct. 20 issue, "End of the Ownership So
Published: Nov. 9, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: In my first two columns I talked about inclusionary housing and about defining the term "affordable housing." Those seemed like natural places to start when writing a column designed to educate readers about affordable housing. But some of you h
Published: Nov. 2, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
Years ago, when Dan and I were house shopping, one of the things that drew me to our historic fixer-upper was its unique mixture of grand common spaces and small, cozy private rooms. I loved how all the spaces, big and small, seemed to wrap you in a
Published: Nov. 2, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
Mac and Karen MacAulay live in an early 1920s house in Hillsborough's historic district. The gray house with white trim and a fuschia-colored door sits along the town's main corridor. It's a house Karen didn't think artists painted de
Published: Oct. 26, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
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