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By Christianna McCausland Making An Entry by Christianna McCausland Homeowners go to great lengths to make guests welcome but often overlook the most essential element of creating a hospitable environment: the entry. There’s an old bit of wisdom that says you should always sleep in your own guest room before asking a visitor to do so.By sampling the guest’s space, you learn how inviting the room is, how comfortable the bed. Homeowners go to great lengths to make guests welcome but of

By Greg Powell Greg Powell is the Residential Sales Manager and Marketing Director for the Virginia branch of Chapel Valley Landscape Company. SIZE matters Considering adding trees to the landscape around your home? Whether for privacy, aesthetics, or additional scale, clients these days are opting for much larger specimen trees. As houses have grown from the 1950s ramblers to the larger, multifaceted homes of today, the trees that surround them have become a much more important factor in integr

By Peggy Riccio Peggy Riccio is a regular contributor to ChesapeakeHome. A Smoldering Fire Autumn Foliage We are fortunate to live in an area with spectacular spring displays of yellow daffodils, red tulips, white dogwoods, and mounds and mounds of pink and purple azaleas. Tourists flock to our Nation’s capital to see breathtaking displays of pastel colors en masse. But having visited once in the spring, visitors tend to stay home and miss our equally beautiful but less publized autumn sho