Categories: News & Updates
Love your location, but not so much your house? Want to fall in love with your house all over again? Then remodel it! Whether it’s a whole house renovation or a kitchen or bath update, remodeling your home can make it more functional, enjoyable, and beautiful (and usually all of the above). We recently remodeled […]
Categories: A 5 Minute Walk, Davidson NC, News & Updates
Every home needs to have a great ice cream store within a five-minute walk, and we’ve got you covered with the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream store in downtown Davidson, NC. Located on the corner of south Main and South Street, Ben & Jerry’s is an easy five minute walk from our homes in our […]
Categories: Davidson NC, News & Updates
The best compliment about an addition to an existing home is “it looks like it’s been there all along.” We recently added on to a 1920s home in downtown Davidson, and I think it’s safe to say ‘it looks like it’s been there all along.’ A good architect is always a necessary and first step […]
Categories: active adult, Davidson NC, News & Updates
What comes to mind when you hear the term “active adult?” For me, having grown up in Tucson, it’s visions of senior citizens zipping around on their golf carts to yet another programmed activity, or it’s a Del Webb community where everyone is, well, an active adult. Active adult communities are great, and if you’re […]
Categories: Davidson NC, Homes For Sale, News & Updates
STATUS: SOLD!. Imagine being able to step out of your front door and walk to downtown Davidson in less than five minutes. Imagine walking to Davidson Elementary School or the trailhead of the Southeast Greenway in three minutes. Imagine living in a green, efficient home with nice fencing and landscaping, and not having a neighbor […]
Categories: Davidson NC, Green Home Blog, News & Updates
One of the key concepts of a pocket neighborhood is bringing people together. After all, what’s a neighborhood without neighbors? A community garden is a great space where neighbors can interact, and it also provides an opportunity for homeowners on smaller lots to act out their inner green thumb. In that spirit we began a […]
Categories: Davidson NC, News & Updates
I was recently reading “One Town, Many Voices,” the excellent new history of Davidson written by Jan Blodgett and Ralph Levering, and came across a passage about Wayne Roberts. Mr. Roberts was the longtime principal at Davidson Elementary School, and played an important role in the integration of that school. What does John Marshall Custom […]
Categories: Green Home Blog, News & Updates
In the past 100 years, one thing has stayed relatively constant while something else has changed dramatically. The constant is rainfall. Although some years are wet and some are dry, on average about the same amount of water is falling on Davidson as it was in 1912. The amount of undeveloped land however has changed […]
Categories: Green Home Blog, News & Updates
I came across this video recently via facebook. It’s an interesting explanation of something I think we all know: exercise is good for you. Even better, you don’t have to be a marathoner or triathlete to benefit from exercise. Thirty minutes of daily exercise such as walking, running, swimming or biking (or others) is shown […]
Categories: Green Home Blog, News & Updates
They say a picture tells a thousand words. Scroll through these photos and what do you see? For the most part, I see trees. Sure, there are some nice homes, but by and large I see trees. I see photos that tell a story of life, of birds singing, leaves providing protection from a hot […]
