Short-term Showstoppers: Making the most of your luxury rental
Private accommodation rentals are being heralded by those in the know—including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times—as the post-pandemic comeback kid. And no destination is more ready and willing to cash in on those predictions than Hilton Head Island. Whether you are starting from scratch building a new home, remodeling an existing home, or simply looking for ways to make over an outdated style, we’ve got the details to help you become a short-term host with the most and ensure that your luxury rental is a showstopper.
A Passion for Trash
How two island entrepreneurs are disrupting the waste disposal business (in a good way).
Julie Parsley: The Art of the Good Hair Day
Good hair days don’t happen by accident. They happen when you have the right color, cut and style for your face, your hair, and your lifestyle. It’s as simple as that, but yet not so simple. There’s no denying the power of hair and its ability to transform the way you...
Improving Indoor Air Quality: Identify and eliminate the hidden threats to your home’s safety and health
Our homes are our havens where we go to recharge and find safety from the outside world. However, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that many times indoor air quality can be two to five times worse than outdoor air quality, and it’s not unusual to see...
Shamrock Ships Flotilla Provides Unique, Safe Alternative for St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah
It is the second largest in the United States; it is certainly the most welcoming; and the Irish community takes its religious implications seriously. For the second year in a row, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Savannah has been canceled as many believe the Hostess...
10 Tips for Remodeling Your Bath
Remodeling your bathroom can breathe new life into your home. Plus, since many people are spending so much more time at home, having a functional, beautiful bathroom is now on the top of the priority list for homeowners. Renovations might be as simple as installing...
Floors To Go by High Tide: Local service, unrivaled value and craftsmanship
Steve Fisher has enjoyed being a tradesman as long as he can remember. That joy in seeing a job done right from start to finish began as a stone mason in Rochester, N.Y. He quickly learned that upstate New York winters were not a stone mason’s friend. “Epic...
CHS Pressure Washing & Window Cleaning
More than a tagline or promotional copy, there’s a story behind the headline of a kid who learned organization from military parents and grew up on his dad’s job sites, seeing firsthand how a good business is run and how to get the job done. Varnes’ dad (re-)started...
Chip Michalove: The Great White Shark Whisperer
Seven years ago, one moment forever changed Chip Michalove’s whole world. All alone at sea, aboard his 26-foot fishing boat off the coast of Hilton Head Island, Michalove saw something he had been waiting his whole life for: a great white shark. “It circled my boat...
Charles Schwab Bluffton: Local Knowledge with Financial Support
Fred Gaskin grew up naturally curious and got hooked on finances in his teens, fascinated by what made markets go up and down and how investors found their edge. That’s led him to a 35-year career as a financial professional with established investment firms including...
Celebrating 25 years in business this year, Auto Spa continues to set the standard for automotive amazement.
There is an art to the automobile. Each swooping line, each chrome accent, each stylish piece of trim, is carefully chosen by a small army of engineers and craftsmen to make the automobile something that doesn’t just move you—it moves you. But once it leaves the...
A Note from Our Mayors: March 2021
Our Comprehensive Plan a Reflection of Excellence I was thrilled to hear that our recently adopted comprehensive plan earned the 2020 Outstanding Planning Project, awarded by the South Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association (SCAPA) at its winter...
The Best Laid Plans
Meet the visionaries behind the free-standing artwork that is the lowcountry’s architecture.
Editor’s Note: March 2021
In our bi-yearly Home + Garden issues, we get to take a peek inside some of the most beautiful homes in the Lowcountry. To kick things off, we profile the consultants right at the start of the homebuilding process: the architects, if you will. And yes, I mean the...
Unbroken Thread
Carmine Setola carries a title you don’t see very often these days – he is a master upholsterer. When he first learned the art, it was through an upholstery trade school, offered by the VA after his service in WWII. His mother, a skilled seamstress, instilled in him...
Like a Good Neighbor…Kevin Sevier is an old-school insurance agent with a few new-school ideas for bringing insurance to the people.
As a professional insurance agent with State Farm for more than 13 years and 24 years in total with the company, Kevin Sevier understands what insurance means to you. And for most of us, insurance is what we see on TV: talking reptiles, Dr. Rick showing us how not to...
Musicians in Bathrooms featuring Stee and the Ear Candy Band
with Sterlin Colvin II (Stee), Brooke Horne, Greg Critchley, T.J. Ling, Malcom Horne
A Tale of Two Hues: Pantone names a duo as Colors of the Year for 2021
Pantone, the global color authority and provider of professional color language standards and digital solutions for the design community, has named “Ultimate Gray” and the lemony yellow “Illuminating” as the duo Colors of the Year for 2021. In a year when most of us...
From Manhattan to Modern Farmhouse on Spring Island
A Spring Island Couple Finds Their Lifestyle Reimagined in the Lowcountry.