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Step Inside a Glowing Charleston, South Carolina, Home That’s Filled With Stunning Furniture
Melanie and Peter Birch weren’t preparing on leaving their 18th-century downtown Charleston, South Carolina, city property. But in 2019, friend and neighborhood designer Sarah Hamlin Hastings available an off-market place deal on her individual too-very good-to-flip-down dwelling just 5 minutes absent around the Ashley River. “We experienced zero desire, actually, in moving out of downtown,” Melanie admits. Nevertheless, when she and Peter observed the McAlpine-renovated 1920s dwelling whose generous rooms opened on to a spectacular backyard garden, they understood it would be properly suited to their like for entertaining. At breakfast collectively the day just after the viewing, they were sold. For the first calendar year, the residence was “livable…
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2022 Idea House: Step Inside Our Coastal Carolina Home
A man cruises past in a top-down, vintage blue convertible—speedy enough to catch a breeze but not so fast that he can’t give a friendly wave. “That’s what it’s all about right there,” says Ed Mitchell, the president and a founding developer of River Dunes, a community just outside the fishing village of Oriental, North Carolina. Positioned where the Neuse River flows into the Pamlico Sound, this is a place where rest and relaxation come easily. It was a no-brainer for the location of our 2022 Idea House—a winsome and unfussy retreat where there’s plenty of room for the whole family (and the occasional surprise guest) to stretch out and…
