For the first time in six years, Charlotte magazine is producing a standalone Charlotte Home + Garden magazine. Polybagged with April’s ever-popular Real Estate issue of Charlotte magazine, this 60-page publication spotlights beautiful homes, stunning furniture, new design trends, and much more. This gorgeous annual, perfect-bound on upscale paper, will also include a resource guide highlighting Charlotte’s top interior designers! The Charlotte Home + Design annual anticipates a readership up to 160K with increased print run, longer distribution cycle and extended shelf life.
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In this issue you’ll find two recently renovated homes—one in Plaza Midwood, the other in Weddington—where the homeowners opted to forgo the familiar rebuild and instead decided to maintain the framework of the existing structure. Clay Andrews’s comfortable Tudor-style bungalow…
The Bride & Groom’s First Cookbook: Recipes and Menus for Cooking Together Broadway Books, $25By Abigail Kirsch with Susan M. GreenbergWhat it is: When the honeymoon is over, it’s time for all the kitchen appliances from the wedding registry to…
In addition to purchasing it (see our favorite store-bought options, pictured below and detailed at right), one option is to experiment by making your own (see recipe below to get started). Typically, Indian curries are tomato based and Thai curries…
What: Ron Dock wanted to re-create the look and feel of an English pub in his third-story, 1,154-square-foot loft while his wife, Elayne, was adamant about creating a modern space that seamlessly connected the billiards area, bar, and theater room.…
Local ladies-in-the-know have looked to Elizabeth Grigg to soften their skin ever since her Charlotte-based line of luxurious lotions and sugary scrubs, Picadilly and Tallulah (P&T), debuted in 2005. Well, ladies, now know this: Grigg has officially set her sights…
What types of desserts do you offer?Wedding cakes, pictured, cookies, and petit fours. I offer a variety of cake, filling, and frosting flavors with several choices for coverings, too. What’s your favorite?First, English pound cake with lemon raspberry filling and…
Chefs treat gourmet salts like a great accessory—a finishing sprinkle can heighten flavors and add a visual touch to any creation. But the vibrant colors, textures, and tastes of these domestic and international salts are also available to home chefs.…
KISSKeep It Simply Scrumptious offers mail-order meal kits ($24.95, serves four to six) with mixes/seasonings, ingredients, recipes, and a short grocery list all delivered to your doorstep. This Cornelius-based kitchen offers Southern staples with a twist like Hawg Gone Wild,…
Photographs by Chris EdwardsThe bedroom is the room you spend most of your time in when you’re home. So one would think designing that happy haven would be high on the priority list. But it’s often the most overlooked room…
Grills gave way to mini-kitchens, lawn chairs morphed into sofas, and bonfires became fireplaces. Lately, people have been swathing their patio furniture in fabrics so luxurious that grandmothers everywhere are gasping at the notion of leaving all those couture cushions…
A fountain from Royal Garden offers subtle noise to the otherwise quiet area Photographs by Mike HammerStyling by Jade WillsWhile I walked through my neighborhood at dusk one evening, the structures beckoned to me. Mysterious wooden boxes glowed on the…
Photographs by Chris Edwards Isaac Luski sits in front of a self portrait in his SouthPark home. The Luskis began collecting art more than forty-seven years ago with the first piece by Cuban artist Rene Portocarrerro. When Isaac and Sonia Luski…
Outdoor living. For so long, that phrase was just about as oxymoronic as I thought it could be. Living outdoors? Sure, screened-in porches, decks, and patios were in my vocabulary but stone fireplaces, waterfalls, Japanese cooktops, flat-screen TVs, copper-lined showers,…
