by Sean | Oct 1, 2012 | Accreditation, Meet the Team, Recognition
Home and hearth, and the comfort they engender, figure prominently in Asheville interior designer Laura Kirkpatrick’s work. Her firm, ID.ology, offers interior design services to private and commercial clients, staging services for home sellers and consultation for anyone wishing to put their best, well-designed foot forward. Kirkpatrick has had a lifelong love of the visual — and she likes to mix things up. Working a treasured family heirloom into a contemporary design is the type of challenge she enjoys. And she’s as comfortable in a hardhat as she is flipping fabric swatches. The daughter of a real estate broker/contractor dad, Kirkpatrick earned her real estate brokerage and general contractor licensures in 2006. Read More
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by Sean | Sep 20, 2012 | Accreditation, Recognition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Living Stone Construction Inc Receives 2011 Best of Black Mountain Award
U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement
NEW YORK, NY, October 21, 2011 — Living Stone Construction Inc has been selected for the 2011 Best of Black Mountain Award in the Custom Home Builders category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA “Best of Local Business” Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
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by Sean | Sep 7, 2012 | News
If you are among the more than 75 million Americans who own their home, or the millions more who hope to someday achieve the American dream of homeownership, then you will want to tell your candidates where you stand on critical housing issues before casting your ballot this fall.
National policy has acknowledged the importance of the home in American family life for almost a century, yet today, homeownership is under attack.
Legislative and regulatory proposals that would greatly harm home owners, home buyers, the housing market and the nation’s economy are under consideration by government policymakers. These include ongoing threats to the mortgage interest deduction, instituting a standard 20 percent downpayment on home loans, and ending the federal backstop for housing, which would make the 30-year mortgage less accessible and more expensive.
The stakes are enormous. The decisions the politicians who are elected to office this year make on these proposals could not only strip away homeownership’s priority status and obstruct the economy’s ability to recover, but also reverse the housing policies that created a thriving middle class and contributed to a century of economic progress.
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by Sean | Sep 5, 2012 | Construction, Construction & Design, Photo Gallery
Thiemkey was a challenging project for several reasons. It's accessibility made it very difficult to get materials to. We took this 2 level home and turned the lower level screened porch into a storage area. A beautiful bump out was built for the three story staircase. We dug under the existing home to build a new basement foundation in order to house a creative wine cellar. The spiral staircase leads all the way down to the wine cellar and is surrounded by stone in the basement level. This renovation won the Best Renovation for the state of NC in September of 2013. "In working with Living Stone we witnessed an excellent and thorough estimate, honesty and reliability, superb workmanship, fantastic communication and an all around great job! We would build with Living Stone again as well as refer them." Dr. Bill Thiemkey [nggallery id=18]
