Life + Culture

Everly Brothers Park: Touching tributes by musical icons endear this Bearden park

Article by Paul James | Photography by Shawn Poynter, Knoxville History Project, and Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina If you haven’t noticed, there is a small pocket park in Bearden that celebrates two of the most cherished performers of rock and roll history. It’s no hyperbole to say that without the Everly Brothers there might have been no Beatles, Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel and a host of other legendary bands and musicians. You don’t have to take my word...

Finance + Legal Services

How Much is Enough?

Article by By Aaron Nolan, CFP® | Photography by Ben Finch How Much is Enough? By Aaron Nolan, CFP® Moving is one of the most miserable tasks known to man. You don’t know where anything is. All your free time goes to packing/unpacking boxes. Your whole body aches from moving things around. Even when the end destination is a positive one, the actual act of moving is not fun. At All. My wife and I went through this over the summer, and while I have a fresh perspective on how miserable the...

Arts + Culture

Planting a Spring Garden

Expert Advice From Master Gardener John Coykendall Article by Amy Campbell | Photography by Shawn Poynter  Q: Where do we start?    A: Plan where you are going to plant things. If you’ve had, say, beans or tomatoes growing in a certain area for more than two years, you want to rotate those crops within a new area so that you avoid pest and disease build-up and depletion of the soil. In other words, you would grow beans, say, and tomatoes (just as examples) and have those two years on an area...

Home Services

Benefits of Custom Window Treatments!

As a part of our whole home design services, custom Window Treatments are one of our favorite solutions to provide for our clients. These are known to add beauty to a space, but did you know that there are also functional benefits of adding custom window treatments to your home? Here are a few benefits of adding custom window treatments to your home:Sound Absorption - Have an echo? Or a loud neighborhood? Layers of window treatments can act as a sound absorption layer to muffle sounds and stop...