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“Because of the affordability and fantastic new construction options, most listings are experiencing record low ‘days on market,’ and it’s not uncommon for a home to have multiple offers on the first day” – Ashley Quinn, Fonville Morisey Realty
Knightdale and Wendell Wake County’s best kept secrets - story on page 4
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|real estate news
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TERRAMOR HOMES ANNOUNCES GRAND OPENING OF WATERVIEW TOWNES MODEL HOME Terramor Homes recently announced the grand opening of their Madison model home in the new townhome community Waterview Townes. Priced from the $230,000s, The Madison, Waterview’s featured homeplan, offers 1,647 square feet of living space with a foyer that leads to a spacious open-concept kitchen, living and dining space on the ďŹ rst oor. The upstairs features a large master suite, two additional bedrooms and a full secondary bathroom. The second oor also features a laundry space, centrally located close to all bedrooms. The Madison homeplan offers a one-car garage. Granite countertops with a tile backsplash, luxury laminate ooring, and 2-inch faux wood blinds are included. Situated off Buffaloe Road, Waterview Townes is minutes away from downtown Raleigh and North Hills, and is perfect for those commuting to Research Triangle Park and Triangle University Campuses via I-440 and I-40. Waterview Townes has sold eight townhomes thus far, and 53 total townhomes will be available when the community is completed. For more information, visit terramorhomes.com.
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HERE’S A FEW TIPS FROM LOGAN’S GARDEN SHOP (RALEIGH) & GARDEN SUPPLY COMPANY (CARY) FOR NEW HOMEOWNERS THAT ARE CONSIDERING NEW LANDSCAPE OR GARDENING PROJECTS. Check for drainage issues!
Is water pooling around the home’s foundation or anywhere in the yard? Is run-off from neighboring sites causing erosion or other damage to your property? Does water exiting downspouts freely move away from the house?
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|living in Knightdale/Wendell
by Lisa Daniels
EAT
Aubrey’s & Peedie’s Grill Head over to Wendell’s favorite grill for homemade biscuits, delicious burgers and friendly staff. Just make sure you bring cash—they don’t accept plastic. facebook.com
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Knightdale Station Park This 72-acre park is filled with amenities that will spark the imagination of kids and adults alike, like paved trails, a dog park, and a farm- and trainthemed playground. knightdalestation.com
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Wendell General Store What started as a seasonal candy store has turned into a year-round Wendell staple. Touted as a safe place for the community to gather, the general store is known for its ice cream, play area and candy selection. wendellgeneralstore.com
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hose looking to live close to Raleigh without the hustle and bustle of North Carolina’s capital city are finding the neighboring towns of Knightdale and Wendell an ideal choice. Located to Raleigh’s east and within Wake County, both areas offer convenience and affordability. Easy access to I-440 and I-540 allow for a relatively short commute to RTP or downtown Raleigh, and potential buyers can find many home options for under $250,000. Homebuyers will find everything from townhomes to houses on several acres, with the majority of available residences being newlyconstructed, single-family homes. “Both towns offer a good selection of properties for the first-time homebuyer,” says Linda Wells, a broker with Pointe Realty Group. Wells points out that the availability of land in these areas has fueled their steady growth in recent years. “Large amounts of land have provided the space for new communities to be built, like the popular Knightdale Station, which includes multiple styles of homes, walking trails, athletic parks and a YMCA. Similarly, the Wendell Falls mixeduse community offers something for many different lifestyles,” Wells says. Both of these planned communities are adjacent to large parks, giving residents plenty of green space
and outdoor activities to enjoy. Ashley Quinn with Premier Agents Network of Fonville Morisey Realty reports that the market in the area is booming. “Because of the affordability and fantastic new construction options, most listings are experiencing record low ‘days on market,’ and it’s not uncommon for a home to have multiple offers on the first day,” Quinn says. She adds, “Homes in Wendell are a great long-term investment—when I-540 is complete, this area will be open to an entirely different set of commuters.” Despite their expansion, both towns have retained their sense of community. Annual events, like a Fourth of July celebration featuring live music, food trucks and fireworks, and a Christmas Parade highlighted by floats from local schools and businesses, bring neighbors and families together and help give the area its small-town charm. Commercial growth is more evident in Knightdale than in Wendell, as the need for convenient local shopping has resulted in the emergence of big box stores. “Wendell has preserved a more traditional feel around downtown despite all the growth it’s experiencing. Hopefully, both towns will be able to keep their character, history and charm as they continue to evolve,” Wells says.
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The two towns boast a selection of unique independent shops and businesses, loved by locals and outof-towners alike. Oak City Brewing Company in downtown Knightdale is family- and dog-friendly, and serves beers from across the state and around the world. Their beer garden overlooks Knightdale Station Park, and is a great place to relax on a sunny afternoon. A short stroll away you’ll find Lassiter Distilling Company, where you can take a tour to see how they make their rum and sample their award-winning spirits. Be sure to stop into The Mercantile next door, a shop selling unique vintage, antique and handmade items for the home. To get a taste of historic downtown Wendell, visit Aubrey’s & Peedie’s Grill, a fixture in the community since 1979, serving homecooked meals for breakfast and lunch. To juxtapose the old with the new, just cross the street to the cozy 41 North Coffee Co., owned by an NC State University alum. A visit to the Wendell General Store—selling ice cream, old-fashioned candy by the pound and locally produced and crafted items—is a must. With so much to offer homebuyers so close to Raleigh, Quinn says, “I think Knightdale and Wendell are two of the best kept secrets in Wake County.”
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1733 Acorn Creek Lane Wendell, NC 27591 Price: $1,000,000 MLS: 2151813 Listing Agent: Ruby Henderson, Team Ruby Henderson—Keller Williams Realty, 919-274-3040, ruby@rubyhenderson.com
575 Old Zebulon Road Wendell, NC 27591 Price: $725,000 MLS: 2221043 Listing Agent: Linda Wells, Pointe Realty Group, 919-971-1446, lwells@ pointerealtygroup.com
Impressive log cabin estate on 18-plus acres of land with stocked pond and walking trails. Main house features log construction and great room with vaulted ceiling and fireplace. Floor-to-ceiling windows. Massive open concept kitchen and wet bar. First-floor master with en-suite spa features garden tub, glass shower, dual vanities and walk-in closet. Bonus room upstairs. Loft overlooks great room. Guest house. Pristine setting in convenient location.
This beautiful four-bed, 3/1-bath all-brick home on 2 acres includes a three-bedroom guest cottage and detached garage. Classical styling with a lovely circular driveway, hardwood floors and quality finishes. Amazing options with downstairs master and additional first-floor bedroom, beautiful kitchen, family room, upstairs bonus, two offices/exercise rooms, and terrific closets and storage. Screened porch and patio.
8408 Tadmore Lane Knightdale, NC 27545 Price: $475,000 MLS: 2230728 Listing Agent: Janice Rosenberg, The Janice Rosenberg Team with RE/ MAX United, 919-815-0905, Janice@janicerosenberg.com
776 Fireball Court Knightdale, NC 27545 Price: $449,000 MLS: 2233464 Listing Agent: Diane Masinick, Garman Homes, 800-560-1160, diane@ garmanhomes.biz
Gorgeous all-brick home on 1.21-acre cul-de-sac lot in Estates at Smith Crossing. Close to I-540 and Hwy 264/I-495. Screened porch, large deck and paver patio with fire pit, overlooking huge backyard with irrigation system. Hardwood floors and deep crown molding on main level with office/study. Fabulous kitchen with granite counters, stainless appliances, eat-at island and breakfast area with French doors opening to screened porch. Two-story foyer with winding staircase and cherry inlaid oak floor. Huge bonus room.
Master and in-law suite on main level makes living here easy. Beautiful entryway lined with wide wainscoting leads to large, open family room with tons of natural light. The all-white gourmet kitchen has 10-foot kitchen island. Upstairs with two large bedrooms with massive walk-in closets, unfinished storage and huge loft. Fully finished basement with gigantic bonus room and bedroom with full bath. Tons of storage.
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337 Liberty Star Road Wendell, NC 27591 Price: $447,500 MLS: 2235887 Listing Agent: Ashley Quinn, Premier Agents Network of Fonville Morisey Realty, 919-622-9950, Ashley@AshQuinn.com
1106 Edenburghs Keep Drive Knightdale, NC 27545 Price: $439,000 MLS: 2224900 Listing Agent: Sharon Baldwin, Sunflower Realty, 919-669-6644, sbaldwinrealtor@gmail.com
On one of Wendell Falls’ finest lots, this home lives like a resort. Large, stunning kitchen with butler’s pantry. A beautiful stone, see-through fireplace provides warmth to the family room and screened porch. The porch and patio overlook a large, tree-lined backyard. Main-floor master and secondary bedroom. Upstairs features large bonus room and guest suite. Added amenities include two walk-in storage areas, hardwoods, central vacuum and plantation shutters.
This five-bedroom home has all the space a family needs. Master suite offers a picturesque window and spacious bath with whirlpool tub, double vanity and walk-in closet. Newly refinished hardwood floors, carpet and paint. First-floor office, mud entry, back staircase leading to a second family room, craft room off the upstairs laundry room. Stamped patio.
612 Gold Coast Drive, Lot 207 Knightdale, NC 27545 Price: $434,900 MLS: 2182387 Listing Agent: Mary Ann Kohn, Fonville Morisey Barefoot, 919-9265576, KnightdaleStation@FMBnewhomes.com
468 Cedar Pond Court Knightdale, NC 27545 Price: $425,000 MLS: 2135475 Listing Agent: Jim Allen Group, 919-845-9909, info@jimallen.com
“The Clemson” plan has it all. Stunning craftsman-style with charming front porch. Main-level in-law suite has adjoining private living quarters with kitchenette. Open kitchen/family area with large gathering island and gourmet appliances. Formal and informal dining rooms. Luxurious owner’s suite with his/her walk-in closets. Five-bedrooms, huge closets, plus bonus and lounge. Covered back porch, patio, two-car garage. Walk to Knightdale Station Park, dog parks, playground, YMCA pools, nature areas and downtown shops.
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Fantastic five-bedroom, 3/1-bath home with finished basement. Hardwoods throughout main living areas. Lovely white-painted kitchen with center island, granite countertops, under-cabinet lighting and subway tile backsplash. Master bedroom with tray ceiling and walk-in closet with built-in shelves. Master bath features garden tub and dual vanity with granite counter. Two-car garage and screened-in porch overlooking backyard.
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The pool includes spaces for floating and dreaming or for a vigorous workout in the lap area. Additional amenities include Purple Martin Community Farm, River Bend Park, Puptown Park, miles of trails linking to 35-mile Neuse River Greenway, numerous open spaces for playing and relaxing, Fitness Park, tree-lined sidewalks throughout and a planned community Town Center. Homes crafted by the region’s best builders are designed for every generation and tailored to fit your lifestyle and budget.
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green construction requirements, the community’s five builders set a high bar for design in their many home sizes and styles.
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|design instyle
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Florals
Big blooms burst onto the scene by Vicki Payne
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veryone is so tired of winter—all we can think about is spring and warmer weather. With the sunshine comes floral displays to brighten our days and push even the grumpiest soul into blissfully gay spirits. But why sit around and wait for spring? This season’s design squad has bestowed big, bold floral designs into our formerly neutral decor. I’m not talking about your granny’s floral sofa,
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but new inventive, contemporary images that brighten our spaces—and keep within our comfort zone. Incorporating this refreshing trend doesn’t require you to pitch out everything that you currently have and start from scratch. No, it’s about introducing a seductive pattern into a monotone landscape. Throw pillows can only carry a new theme so far. At some
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point, you must be willing to step out of the box and invest in one new and exciting upholstery member to enliven your room’s scape. If that scares you, think about how easy (and fun) it would be to shop for just one individual piece of furniture. Your budget, depending on where you shop, should be between $350 to $1,500 for a quality accent chair. Keep your color and pattern selection within the existing field of your present-day living space. If you have a blue sofa, find a floral pattern that includes that matching hue or coordinates with the colors. Or be a little more edgy and transform an all-white or neutral space by introducing a bold floral print, and depend on accessories to tie it all together. The key to introducing any new print or color is tone. This is the color family that exists in all fabrics, floor coverings, paint, lamp shades, etc.
If you have a white sofa, don’t try to incorporate a floral rug or fabric with a cream background. You’ll always be unsatisfied. Floral doesn’t have to be big splashes of color. It can be a tone-on-tone print or black and white. The Milano chair is stunning in classic nautical blue and white, but the pattern is an outsized floral pattern. This season, you can easily find the perfect print for your home’s decor. Taylor King’s Banning chair is a refreshing update on the classic wing chair. Its tight-back style keeps it traditional, but the gray, cream and steel blue contemporary floral fabric gives it a whimsical touch that puts it on trend. The Gavin chair is another great example of an update wing chair with exposed wood and a jaunty ocean blue and lime green floral print. A clever touch of color transforms the setting when paired with matching pil-
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lows and preppy square ottomans. If you have a room that just doesn’t seem to be coming together no matter how hard you try, a floral print that encompasses all the colors could be your solution. A pair of Myers slipper chairs, upholstered in an avocado, gold and aqua print, pulls this space together. It has the same shade of white in the background as the sofa, the aqua works with the gray and the green leather chair is a perfect match for the floral design. Artwork and accessories complete the decor. Not ready to invest in additional upholstered pieces? Consider bringing today’s floral style into your home with a new area rug. Surya, known for its affordable and trendy pieces, has several rugs to brighten your home.
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The Rain rug is an animated botanical pattern. It provides the home decorator an opportunity to play off multiple colors and shapes when designing the room. The Jolene rug also offers heaps of color, but its navy and cream palette allows it to fit comfortably in a sunroom with neutral furnishings. These are just two of the dozens of floral options. Pink is this year’s new neutral, and expressed in a daring floral pattern as shown on the Jarvis chair it is forthright, colorful and inviting. Regardless
of how boldly you step into this trend, you will find it a refreshing substitute from solids, solids and more solids of the past few seasons.
Vicki Payne Donatelli is an interior designer, project coordinator and popular speaker for renovation and new construction projects. She is the host of the national PBS series “For Your Home.” Visit her blog at ForYourHome.com.
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Leather 101
Make sure you’re getting your leather-care info from the right place by Allen Norwood
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ou need to dust your leather furniture regularly. Those hand sanitizers that seem almost ubiquitous at the drugstore and doctor’s office, especially during flu season, can damage the arms of your leather recliner. And you can’t treat “naked” leather as you would the leather seats in the family SUV. Those are three tidbits I learned from Cheryl Sigmon, director of merchandising for Bradington-Young, a Hickory company that makes fine leather furniture. The company, a division of Hooker Furniture, just launched a push to educate buyers about leather care. Each buyer will get a care kit and tips on how to use the products. Why now? Because some customers didn’t seem to be getting all the information they needed at the time of purchase, Sigmon says. “We train salespeople,” she says, “but there’s lots of turnover at the retail level.
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If (buyers) aren’t taught at the retail level, if they don’t learn, they think they don’t need to do anything—and that the (leather) is going to stay the same for 20 years.” Then, of course, more and more buyers bypass the retail store altogether. Sigmon says most Bradington-Young furniture is sold through retail stores, but you’ll find the company’s recliners online at Wayfair. I’m just guessing, but I’ll bet many of those online buyers return to the internet for leather care advice. They might be getting harmful advice, I told Sigmon, instead of no advice at all. Absolutely, she says. “I saw a (leather care product) video that actually scared me to death. I have no idea what’s in that product.” Here’s a notion: When you buy furniture online, go to the manufacturer’s site—not YouTube—for advice on care and maintenance. No matter where you bought your
leather furniture, you can learn more about the different types of leathers, and how to care properly for all of them, at bradington-young.com/leathercare.inc. Anyway, more tidbits: Most of us know to keep furniture out of direct sunlight. Of course it’s going to fade your leather; it fades your rugs and hardwood floors. Don’t forget to dust your leather furniture regularly. “If you don’t remove that dust,” Sigmon says, “over time it can break down the top coat of the leather and lead to deterioration.” Don’t use products designed for automobile seats on your great room leather. The leathers are not the same. “Auto leather has a harder surface,” Sigmon says. The wrong auto product might damage your furniture upholstery leather. Hand lotion can stain leather, especially a soft “naked” leather like aniline, which lacks a hard, protective finish. The stain might dissipate over time—if you
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stop smearing on more hand lotion—as the oils are absorbed into the leather. Better to avoid the stain. Beware of hand sanitizer. It’s easy to reach for a squirt at the doctor’s office, or from that bottle in your car console, but it can damage your leather furniture. “The main ingredient is alcohol,” Sigmon says, “and that alcohol will break down any top coat on leather.” Sometimes, when you’re not feeling well or are fighting chronic illness, you just want to retire to your comforting recliner. Alas, some medications—blood pressure medicine, for instance—can transfer from your body and harm your favorite chair. Like hand sanitizer, Sigmon says, medicines can also damage the top coat of leather. Allen Norwood: homeinfo@charter.net
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