Real Estate / Home & Garden

This dilapidated, four-room schoolhouse currently sits by the road at on Caratoke Highway in Coinjock and hardly looks like the historic structure that it is. Owner, Paul Robinson, has purchased [...]

  If you’ve ever seen a quilt made from old t-shirts, a rug knitted from plastic bags, candles poured into wine bottles that have been cut in half, or jewelry beads made from magazine pages, [...]

Whether by downsizing current homes, transforming small spaces into quaint, single-room rentals, or building modest homes with a rustic feel, many homeowners are cutting back on space while [...]

How many times have you stopped to consider an enticing commercial promising positive cash flow on a rental property? It sounds like easy money up for grabs. But before you jump into the role of [...]

Carole Dawn Emerson often refers to herself as a “Director of Play” and it’s clear to see that the title suits her well as she looks right at home sitting on a child-sized chair surrounded by [...]

The former home of Edmund McHorney, Jr. probably would have been torn down as Currituck County worked to clear away old abandoned buildings, if Reeves Manning hadn’t put it on the North Carolina [...]

You don’t often hear people say, “From the comfort of your own yard,” but with advanced technology and the wide array of products and design ideas available to homeowners today, it is easier than [...]

Your home in the Outer Banks is a special place. Likely, you hope that your children will always appreciate and enjoy the property just as much as you do. Don’t let the potential awkwardness of [...]

The mystique that is Nags Head is in so many ways embodied in the old weathered cottages that line the oceanfront across from Jockey’s Ridge. There’s an appealing simplicity in the wooden frame [...]

Inch-by-inch and row-by-row, many local gardeners have been turning barren plots of land into thriving gardens along the Outer Banks and there is a lot more than just seeds sprouting on these [...]

As community gardens sprout up along the barrier islands of the Outer Banks, it is no small feat for gardeners to keep these plots of land thriving, and no matter how green your thumb may be, it [...]

If you want to give something more personal than a store-bought gift and you haven’t been knitting wool scarves since July, we have a couple of  ideas for even the  most [...]

When Don Bowers’ 82-year-old mother fell and broke her leg for the second time in two years, Bowers realized that it was time to retrofit her Buxton house so she could stay at her home and still [...]