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If you've found a lot in the city (what luck!), you'll need to think about everything from the value of what you're putting on it to the city's tap fees. Photo: Robert Llewellyn

Tight market: Inventory is low for vacant urban lots

Abode | Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Scrolling lazily through the MLS, looking for a vacant city lot on which to build your dream home? You can scroll to your heart’s content, but you’re not too likely to nab your quarry. “They don’t come on the market very often at all, but when decent lots do come on the market, they’re gone […]

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Alloy Workshop expanded the previously claustrophobic kitchen in this Rose Hill neighborhood home by taking over the footprint of an existing screened porch. Photo: Andrea Hubbell

Closing time? Open floor plans aren’t going away, but they are evolving

Abode | Shea Gibbs | COMMENTS

Waves move in cycles. If you want to know the status of the open concept trend among homeowners, that’s pretty much all you need to know, according to Robert Nichols of Formwork Architecture. “There are almost always cycles, and there are subwaves too,” he says. “Some hybrids start to get developed. I kind of feel […]

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Among Keith Scott's projects is the 2015 Southern Living Idea House at Bundoran Farm. Photo: Brian Bieder

Dual purpose: Between land and structure, Keith Scott sees the big picture

Abode | Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

Having already earned a degree in landscape architecture from Virginia Tech, Keith Scott decided that, in order to deepen his understanding of the built environment, an architecture degree would be necessary as well. So he got both. “As a result of the two degrees, many of my favorite places are where building and landscape are […]

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Kathy Heiner, pictured here in a client's home with her French bulldogs, Otis and Willy, says her favorite room in her house is her bedroom. "I have dear friends who call it 'getting lost at sea,' when you and your children and your dogs are all piled on the big bed with laptops watching a movie or reading together," she says. Photo: Kip Dawkins

An interesting mix: At home with Kathy Heiner

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

Décor-wise, designer Kathy Heiner says homeowners should never scrimp on art. As she puts it, “Paintings, pottery and sculpture can transform a space, create interest and provide a topic for conversation.” And she practices what she preaches in her own home, where each wall is a veritable gallery of framed pieces—from prints and line drawings […]

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(From foreground): Purple barberry, Mexican feather grass, black-eyed Susan, phlox and varied foliage fill out this hell strip at the Senior Center in the city. Photo: Cathy Clary

Harrying hot spots: From hell strips’ challenges arise opportunities

By Cathy Clary | COMMENTS

Unlike the devil, it’s impossible to mistake a hell strip for anything else. Sterile concrete medians, inhospitable sidewalk patches and blazing afternoon decks do not appear in disguise. They differ from ordinary sunny garden sites in their sometimes polluted but always harsh exposure to reflective heat from asphalt and walls bereft of the buffering effects […]

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Agnor-Hurt Elementary's new multi-age learning environment is a central commons surrounded by three pods, but the details of each area can change depending on students' needs. Photo: Tom Holdsworth Photography

All together now: Agnor-Hurt is uniting kids, K through 5, in one joyful space

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

“How do we treat children with as much respect as we treat adults?” That was one of the primary questions driving the design of an addition to Agnor-Hurt Elementary, an Albemarle County public school, last year. Camilo Bearman, the Stantec architect who led the project, loved reaching for that lofty goal. “It’s inspiring as a […]

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Photo: Stephen Barling

May Abode: On stands now!

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

In this month’s issue of Abode: a cleverly renovated home in Staunton’s Newtown district, an update on UVA’s Rotunda redo, D.I.R.T. Studio’s Julie Bargmann on landscape architecture and more. D.I.R.T.’s Julie Bargmann finds beauty in the breakdown. The Rotunda renovation is nearly complete. A peek at this year’s SHE Design House. Farmhouse chic with decorator […]

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Photo: Stephen Barling

Bigger and brighter: An Albemarle kitchen lets in the light

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Even though Jeannean Carver has lived in her house since 1998, she never had a chance to figure out how to redo her kitchen. A busy pediatrician, she spent years putting off a real renovation, instead making only a few small changes. “I work a lot,” she says. “I didn’t have time to look for […]

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Photo: Stephen Barling

Simply beautiful: Making the most of a modest Staunton home

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

It was an exercise in moderation when Dennis and Ingrid Blanton chose their house in Staunton’s historic Newtown neighborhood. New to the area, freshly arrived from two years in Costa Rica, they began house-shopping and were tempted by some sizable homes. But, says Ingrid, “We wanted to simplify our lives.” At first glance, they’d dismissed […]

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In the dining room, designer Sheilah Michaels (right) hangs a piece of Sarah Trundle’s (left) work. Photo: Robert Radifera

Doing good: Annual Design House showcases designers, raises funds

By Lynn Thorne | COMMENTS

What does it take to create a successful Design House? Three months, more than a dozen designers and landscape architects, myriad volunteers and vendors, and a public willing to purchase a ticket to venture inside. Oh, and a homeowner who’s willing to leave the house vacant for the duration. The Design House is not your […]

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Lesli DeVito says her favorite room in her home is the living room, where she can truly relax. “It is where my day usually begins and ends,” she says. Photo: Amy Jackson

DIY diva: At home with decorator Lesli DeVito

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

We first encountered interior decorator Lesli DeVito through her blog, myoldcountryhouse.com, where she showcases her work as a custom pet portrait artist and the artist of a much bigger canvas—her house. An 1880s farmhouse in Greenwood, the home has been lovingly updated with modern amenities and a bright, cheerful interior aesthetic. And DeVito did the […]

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Master craftsmen in Italy used photos from 1870  to recreate the Rotunda's original capitals. Photo: Dan Addison/ UVA University Communications

Capital improvements: Craftsmanship defines UVA’s Rotunda renovation

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

A structure as history-soaked as UVA’s Rotunda has many chapters to its story. And, having served as a symbol of the university for nearly 200 years, it’s layered with meaning, too. The Rotunda is currently undergoing a major renovation; much of the exterior will be finished this month, allowing graduates to process around the building during […]

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At Urban Outfitters’ campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, crisscrossed railtracks became walking paths. Photo: D.I.R.T. Studio

Ordinary to extraordinary: Julie Bargmann sees beauty in what’s broken

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

It’s not that Julie Bargmann doesn’t like a vast panorama of green countryside—it’s that she’s more inspired by its opposite. “Give me a path through a landscape with railroad tracks overgrown with wild and woolly weeds,” says the landscape architect and D.I.R.T. Studio founder. “Give me urban wilds, give me a place that is growing […]

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Photo: Stephen Barling

April Abode: On stands now!

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

In this month’s issue of Abode: A 1938 Ivy home and landscape, an heirloom kitchen, WillowTree Apps’ offices and more. Click through here and, below, find a digital copy of the magazine. Grounded LLC’s Anna Boeschenstein on why architecture. A bright, hip renovation for WillowTree Apps. A huge home library. What to look for in […]

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An arched doorway (enlarged in 1997 to boost the room’s sense of spaciousness) leads from the entry hall to the living room, where visitors get an idea of the homeowners’ vast art collection: A group of paintings behind the piano includes work by Lincoln Perry, Charles Smith, Clay Witt, Susan Bacik, Leon Kroll and Elizabeth Huey (on the adjacent wall). Photo: Virginia Hamrick

Graceful additions: Built in 1938, Credenhill gets respect (and some thoughtful updates)

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

In a town with more than its share of notable houses, the home of Bebe Heiner and Bill Atwood is a quiet gem. Hidden at the end of a long driveway in Ivy’s Flordon neighborhood, Credenhill—as it was named by its original owners, after their Welsh hometown—embodies a reserved and gracious sensibility. The pleasing proportions […]

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Photo: Sue Gouldman

Under the oaks: At Credenhill, updates to a Gillette landscape

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

How to bring many layers of history together in one contemporary garden design? Credenhill, a 1938 home in Ivy, had a bit of a pedigree attached to it, in the person of noted designer Charles Gillette. The challenge for current owners Bebe Heiner and Bill Atwood was to integrate the original Gillette design—along with subsequent […]

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Photo: Stephen Barling

Come together: A Faber kitchen opens its arms to family

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Meghan Murray’s house is a family home in a couple of different ways. She grew up in this farmhouse in Faber, built by her grandparents in 1942, on land that’s been in her family for a century. So to occupy it now, as she and her family have for the past year, means that the […]

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Photo: Grounded LLC/Lincoln Barbour

Natural inclination: Art meets architecture with landscape architect Anna Boeschenstein

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

Where is the intersection of art and architecture? For Anna Boeschenstein, it’s in the ground. “When I was in first grade,” says the Grounded LLC founder, “I told my parents that I wanted to be a farmer.” After getting her degree in art from Brown University, it was only a matter of time before she […]

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Photo: Stephen Barling

The book look: City library addition celebrates the written word

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Libraries are the repositories not only of books, but of feelings. There’s the love of a good read, of course, but bookworms harbor other associations with libraries, too: discovery, solitude and the satisfaction of working hard. When architect Bruce Wardell and his colleagues were asked to design a library addition for a Charlottesville homeowner, they […]

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Minsky says her favorite room in her home is the living room “because no one is ever in there. Occasionally the sofa cushions become a fort or a tunnel, but for the most part it is a quiet and inviting retreat.” Photo: Brianna LaRocco

Rule breaker: At home with Artful Lodger’s Caroline Minsky

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

Caroline Minsky opened The Artful Lodger with her husband, Christopher, in 2003, in a 1,100-square-foot space on Seminole Trail. Thirteen years later, the business has grown in size and scope, covering nearly 6,000 square feet of retail space downtown. We asked her to tell us what she thinks can transform a room and how a […]

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Photo: Robert Llewellyn

A bit of earth: How to buy land in the county

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

If you think “groundbreaking”—as in the physical act—might be one of the more thrilling words in our language, you might need to get in the market for land. Selecting a site where you can build anew, on whichever hilltop you like best, is a welcome adventure. But, like all adventures, it has its share of […]

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Photo: Rammelkamp Foto

Collector’s addition: Wish you were here

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

While cleaning the office of Madison House, where he was associate director from 1997-2001, former mayor Dave Norris found an old postcard of Madison Hall in the discard pile. “I thought [it] was a cool old knick-knack and saved it,” he says. Over time, he accumulated more postcards of UVA and, later, Charlottesville. The collection […]

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Photo: Philip Beaurline

March ABODE: On stands now!

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

This month’s issue of Abode is on stands now. Here’s what you’ll find inside. And, below, find a digital copy of the magazine. Waterstreet Studio’s Bill Mauzy on the intersection of photography and architecture. A fully loaded octagonal house. A Q&A with designer Wendi Smith. The latest in home security technology. This month’s featured house: […]

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