HOUSE & GARDEN
Kick Off Your Holiday Decorating & Gifting with Fabulous Taste and Gorgeous Style at ABODE’s Open House This Sunday
ABODE on East Blvd is kicking off the holiday...
This Gorgeous Cotswold New Build is our House of the Month for November
Discover timeless elegance in this exquisite new construction home...
This Classic Eastover Home on Biltmore is Our October House of the Month
Exquisitely renovated from top to bottom, this 5 bed,...
Light It Up. How to Pick out the Perfect Lamp.
Darker early, longer nights, cooler temps. All send us indoors, where suddenly we look around and see all the stuff we need to buy and redo and redecorate, right?
This is the time of year to make sure the lighting...
Ideas for a new look for your Holiday Decor: Traditional with a Rustic Twist
I love nothing more than when a trend takes something comfortably old-fashioned and turns it startlingly on its head, forcing you to see with new eyes. Thus, the old Colonial tradition of using fruit as decoration (generally apples and...
Setting a Festive Holiday Table this year.
It's that time of year. The time for amazing food, scratchy Bing Crosby records playing, and big laughter-filled get-togethers. Candlelight, a holiday punch or drink, and garlands are must-haves. So are beautiful place settings. I love the luxurious yet...
OLD Lang Syne No More – Holiday Mantel Decorating Gets a Revamp
You know how you can tell the age of a movie by the shoes and purses? No? Ok maybe I've verged from SJP wannabe dangerously close into Fashion Nerd territory. Not cool, Kallah, not cool.
Well, point is, some things...
Furniture Paint and Lacquer with Amy Howard Paints at Cotswold Marketplace
Lisa Matthews, Interior Designer and owner of Adagio Antiques, went to high school with Amy Howard. If you aren't familiar with the Amy Howard Paint brand, it is an easy to use,  DIY,  "green" product brand. This line of...
A Creative Thanksgiving Table
Sauces simmering in small bright pans, pies cooling on the dessert table, fresh rosemary sprigs poking waftily out of the huge turkey in the oven, mashed potatoes being whipped with care and a good pound of sweet cream butter,...
Amy Howard Paint Workshops at Cotswold Marketplace
Ever looked at an H&G mag and thought, I wish I could take this or that old brown wood piece and jazz it up with a coat of paint? I know, haven't we all. Like these hot pink dining...
Area designer Traci Zeller launches a signature home candle.
Traci Zeller Home Candle Captures Signature Scent
Hand-poured soy candle packs crisp, clean fragrance in versatile mercury glass
The effortless style of Interior Designer Traci Zeller has been captured in the perfect home accent: a custom candle.
Traci, the...
How to Choose an Accent Table
 Accent Tables are the supporting cast to the leading characters- sofa and chair.  Necessary pieces of furniture that should jive with the style of the room. I'm referring to side tables and sofa tables. Their duty is holding beverages, stacking...
Shopping for the best scented candles in Charlotte
A little bit aromatherapy is one of the most affordable luxuries, and science has proven that certain scents can alter your mood - like citrus or peppermint for energy, and lavender or vanilla for a calming effect. Your sense...
Charlotte Interiors with Alexander Scott: Twistfully Traditional
David Newcombe is passionate about interiors. He and Rusty Griffith (both native Charlotteans and the owners of Alexander Scott) have placed an unmistakably beautiful stamp on retail home interiors. Alexander Scott is located in the former McColl Fine Art...
How to Buy the Perfect Area Rug
I have watched interior designers build an entire room around a great Oushak rug. Â The area rug can be the inspiration of a room or the after thought as in...."I have all this great furniture now I need a...