Loft Tour Looks at Downtown Living
The Sixth Annual Downtown Lynchburg Loft Tour was held on Saturday, February 27. This annual fundraiser for the Free Clinic of Central Virginia has been held on the last Saturday in February since 2005, and has grown from 150 participants in the first year to close to 500 attendees in [...]

Spring is here and along with it comes that dreaded ritual of “spring cleaning.” Oh there’s no denying that there are some perks, like finding that long-lost lip gloss you love hidden beneath the winter socks. (Don’t ask.) But for the most part, spring cleaning is just too much to bear. It’s not that we [...]

My junior year in college was spent studying outside of London in the quaint town of Reading. As I settled into life abroad, I found it charming when my new British friends would call to invite me to enjoy a cup of tea and a biscuit with them. Since I was there to learn all [...]

Patience doesn’t come easy, we know. After all, it’s hard to wait for something when most of the time you can run to the 24-hour store, get online, or make a phone call to get what you want right away.
Alas, many gifts from nature do require patience. In particular, one illustrious and desirable spring [...]

Cozy, comfortable and adorned with an eclectic mix of furnishings old and new, a cottage boasts its own special charms. Jenny and Stuart Smith’s home in Boonsboro has all these qualities and more; their irresistibly appealing home is the epitome of cottage chic.
Jenny always wanted a cottage. Her dream was only encouraged in her days [...]

Yes, neat-nicks, there is nirvana. It’s called the mudroom. Here, you can shed the dirt and baggage of the day and enter the house ready to relax and unwind. Having a mudroom means no muddy footprints in the house, and always knowing where you left the keys the night before. Whether it’s the size of [...]