Perfect Landing | Local Hero Finds Home in Bedford County
Photography by Michael Patch Leland Melvin met Jim and Shirley Lynde one Sunday after church at Main Street Eatery in downtown Lynchburg, when Jim spotted the oft-photographed astronaut across the ...
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Holiday Cheer at Mirror Lake | Home for the Holidays with the Sacketts
Photography by Michael Patch Stories and laughter echo good cheer among the nostalgic and homey arrangements and twinkling lights of Luck and Laura Sackett’s Mirror Lake home at Christmas. Built ...
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A Barn House in the Country | Farmsteading Family Creates a Dream Estate
Photography by Craig Shaffer “Bella and Sterling—they’re why we bought the farm,” says Thistlewood Farm owner Meredith Elliott. Bella is a winsome Bashkir Curly Clydesdale Cross and Sterling’s a stately ...
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Downsizing Downtown | Paul and Libby Fitzgerald
Recipe for easy living: open floorplan, high ceilings and sweeping river and mountain views create a perfect setting for relaxed retirement living. Photography by Michael Patch “There was no way ...
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Living History at Ridgecrest | Federal Period Home on Fox Hill Road
Photography by Michael Patch Robert and Stephanie Sullivan’s future together was bright when they completed their medical residencies in Cincinnati in 1997. With a young daughter, Matilda and newly burnished ...
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Light and Bright | Marrying Old and New in a Tudor Redo
Photography by Michael Patch Suzanne and Steve Johnson met John Wingfield and Penn Burton more than thirty years ago, on a project they took on at the couple’s former home ...
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Room & Board | 1907 Revival Gets an Eclectic Modern Facelift
Melissa Mangold isn’t one to shy away from a project. Even if it’s a big project—big like renovating an entire century-old house, from top to bottom, by herself. What gave ...
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Ensemble Work | Dream Cast Stages Country House Solitude, Minutes from Town
One Act: Assemblage Chris and Shannon Franzelas started dreaming of the home they would build together soon after they were engaged in 2015. The couple assumed they would likely wind ...
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