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

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

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

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