Designing and Building Your New Home, Renovation or Addition A good home designer or architect can guide you through a sea of factors and options regarding the design of a new home, addition or the re-modeling of an existing one. >> read more

Pruning - Shaping up your shrubs and trees Wintertime is a great time to get out in your yard and evaluate the need for pruning. The reasons for pruning are many. Plants need to be trained to stay within their borders. The quality of the fruit and flowers improves with pruning and no one needs to be scratched or injured by... >> read more

Living Shorelines: How to care for our water’s edge All bodies of water have ecology of their own. The balance is delicate, tentative and magical. Living things that are microscopic and those that are visible to the human eye live everyday in that delicate balance. >> read more

Trash to Treasure Sea Glass, frosty bits of colored shards Tossed and tumbled by the waves. Discards of mankind thrown back upon the shore Now trash to treasure in my hands.  >> read more

Wilton House In the dark of night when all in the house are sleeping soundly, a large black dog quietly roams the halls unlocking doors in the Colonial house that stands on a peninsula known as Wilton Point. Some former residents are convinced the story of the ghostly canine appearing at Wilton...  >> read more

Shopping on a Velvet Shoestring From the sparkling crystal chandeliers suspended from the ceiling to expansive oriental rugs covering the floor and an eclectic mix of furniture, fine art, prints, lamps, china, and objects d’art, each piece has been carefully hand-selected by Betty, Jackie and their staff. >> read more

Kitchen Design Did you find yourself wishing your sink, stove or refrigerator was in a different location? Or that you had more countertop or storage space? Did you catch yourself wondering of a life with under cabinet lighting and a garbage disposal? >> read more

A Friendlier Fireplace: Green fireplaces and stoves While our needs for fire today are far different from those of our primitive ancestors, the quality and safety of the fires in our homes are often too much the same: smoky and inefficient.  >> read more

Virginia Building Solutions VBS has a custom design center and offers custom kitchens, baths, trims and most any cosmetic feature available in the industry as a complete package when installing and finishing a systems built home. >> read more

Health Riverside Believes in Wellness at Any Age. Now, so does Medicare. >> read more