![]() |
The stories we bring you this season highlight the many ways we can experience extraordinary moments by delighting in the things that surround us every day. Our feature on local art encourages you to buy pieces for your home with confidence—pieces that speak to you, that can be so much more than pretty pictures to decorate your home. Our feature on weddings at home highlights three local couples who chose to really elevate the everyday by hosting the most special celebration of all at home. And our feature on the latest in garden accessories may inspire you to place some new treasures in your own backyard, providing little spots of beauty as you wait for the world to green up and flower out. All this and more is yours to enjoy in our Spring 2012 issue. Thanks for reading! |
Features
Buying Local Art: Bringing Talent Home 
Someone once said that buying art is a bit like falling in love. You know, that fluttering feeling when you meet that special someone? Once you begin to look at art and develop a preference for certain styles, the same feeling can come over you. It can truly be love at first sight! Art has [...]
[continue reading...]Departments
About Home Magazine
HOME, the area's exclusive home resource and idea magazine, is a high quality magazine that targets the conscientious homeowner who values their home and understands the priorities of the place they call HOME. Each inspiring issue will help our readers make their house a HOME that showcases their personal style and personality, as well as, informing them of practical, affordable solutions to home improvement.
HOME is produced quarterly and has a printed circulation that reaches thousands of households in and around the Central Virginia, Roanoke Valley, and Hampton Roads area. Shelf life for each issue is at least three months. At HOME magazine, our number one goal is to provide our audience with useful, practical and affordable ideas to enhance their homes and lifestyle.
Advertise With Home
Central Virginia HOME is produced quarterly and has a printed circulation that reaches at least 20,000 households in and around the city of Lynchburg plus Amherst, Appomattox, Campbell, and Bedford Counties, including Smith Mountain Lake.
The shelf life is at least three months; our high-quality publication materials and timeless topics encourage our readers to keep Home as a reference for ideas and where to find Central Virginia businesses to help execute these ideas.
Features
Buying Local Art: Bringing Talent Home
Someone once said that buying art is a bit like falling in love. You know, that fluttering feeling when you ...
Treasures in the Garden: Accents Help Personalize Your Yard
The days of kitschy garden objects so popular in suburbia are over. Pink flamingos have left their perch and gnomes ...
Big Dreams, High Dollars: Financing Your Dream Home
We have all browsed through home magazines featuring luxurious dwellings, and many of us dream of someday building our own or ...
At-Home Weddings : Truly a Family Affair
Life is full of monumental events, and the wedding day ranks at the top. It’s the day that little girls ...
Getting to Know You: Neighbors are Precious Friends

People who live in the south are said to be down-to-earth folks who care for each other and know their neighbors. You would think I would be on a first-name basis with the people who live in my backyard or across the street. Truthfully, however, I can’t remember their names or where they work. I’m [...]
Preserving First Fruits: Enjoy Seasonal Treats All Year Long

The arrival of spring signals the beginning of home garden and market season. If we time it right, soon we’ll be buried in piles of fresh local fruits and vegetables. It sounds great on paper—until we have more than we can eat and things start to spoil! One way to extend the season is to [...]
Beautiful Backsplashes: Bring Pop of Style to Hardworking Space

It may be for only a brief few moments, but it is usually the kitchen where families seem to gather long enough to exchange their dreams, desires and to-do lists every day. In what is arguably the most functional room in the house, our lives become intertwined through the pulse of serving others. In this [...]
Storage Central: Culling Clutter from our Darkest Places

When the daffodils peek out, it’s time to turn grey winter thoughts toward spring. On that first warm day, don’t waste daylight hours scrambling for the bike helmets, only to discover the tires went flat over the winter. Where is that bike pump, anyway? Oh no! It’s probably in…(queue scary music)…The Garage…or…The Basement. Organizing these [...]
Septic Smarts

OK people, listen up. Full disclosure: the “House Mechanic” department of HOME magazine is dedicated to the hardworking parts of our homes that are, how shall we say, not so glamorous. In defense of our beloved department, this is the much-deserved place where we help you understand, maintain or upgrade the mechanical systems of your [...]
Historic Garden Week : A Sneak Peek at the Beauty That Awaits

Southerners pride themselves in offering gracious hospitality to all who enter their homes. Experience Southern hospitality on a grand scale during Historic Garden Week—what host Garden Club of Virginia calls “America’s Largest Open House.” Every April, visitors are welcomed to more than 250 of Virginia’s most beautiful gardens, homes and historic landmarks. The Lynchburg Historic Garden Day tour, sponsored [...]
Fabulous Fridges: Know Your Options Before You Shop

When my husband and I bought our first home, the Cape Cod fixer-upper didn’t come with a refrigerator. There, on one wall of our 60-year-old galley kitchen, next to a harvest-gold stove, stood a gaping space. Needing something to keep milk and condiments cold, we bought a used refrigerator. It wasn’t a fancy fridge. Let’s [...]
Best in Blogs: Five Hot Design Spots Online

Inspiration. You can find it just about anywhere…a beautiful sunset, your favorite blouse, the internet. Yes, the internet. When I first started planning my décor years ago, I perused decorating magazines, watched countless shows on HGTV, and even pilfered ideas from my friends’ homes—yet today a whole new home decorating world can be discovered with [...]
