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Blake Miller
Editor
It has been, without a doubt, a trying year for shelter magazines. More than a year ago, the more-than-a-century-old House & Garden folded, followed by other titles: Cottage Chic, Blueprint, and, a favorite, domino. Critics everywhere questioned whether the shelter-publication market was too saturated with magazines about how to improve one's home. All many people really wanted to do these days was just save their home from foreclosure, not purchase that great find from 1stdibs for their Foxcroft Colonial.
Summer 2009 Issue
We read the tea leaves. They said the tea party -- too long the province of little girls and the well to do -- is destined for an update. This modern menu keeps the leisurely customs of high tea but does away with its dainty flavors. Here, the classic cucumber sandwich is re-imagined with a bite of radish and black tea gets a tropical treatment with a jolt of mango purée. Raised pinkies not required.
A Charlotte architect overhauls his beach home to fit in with its wooded surroundings
Katharine Hidell Thomas's midcentury modern ranch breaks the traditional Myers Park mold
Bold patterns and big colors expand a tiny brick ranch in a postwar east Charlotte neighborhood