The Lawrence Home Builders Association’s Spring Parade of Homes is set to begin its first of two weekends. If you aren’t in the market to buy a home but want to go anyway, feel free to think of it as a live performance of HGTV. Turn off the TV and take in the Broadway version, so to ...
If you have hidden a dozen Easter eggs in your yard this season, you’ve probably increased your home’s value by about 20%. Such are the times. Fortunately — for those looking to buy a home, anyway — that’s not the data in the Lawrence market. Home sales in March were up compared to ...
Given that Katie Hoke is an interior architect, it is not surprising that she knows a pretty specific detail about the configuration of the coffee shop she owns with business partners: It is 16 feet long — including the hitch. Yes, the coffee shop is inside an Airstream camping trailer, ...
Developing the area just north of Rock Chalk Park has, at times, looked like the middle-age, full-court pick-up basketball games that take place at the adjacent sports center — slow moving with more plans than points. Now, there is a development hoping to break the drought. Plans have been ...
Sometimes barbecue can produce false signals. When sitting across from my dining companion and she points to her cheek, I assume that means she wants to see if I can fit even more food into my mouth. Come to find out, she was just trying to alert me that I have half a bottle of barbecue sauce ...
A seat by the waterside is a well-known relaxant. Less well-known is a kiss by a fish. Well, a virtual fish kiss, that is. Dana Hunter, co-owner of the new North Lawrence garden and pond shop Botanical Dreams, has a koi pond at her Lawrence-area home. She said a highlight of her day is when ...