Our homes are where we spend most of our time and an extension of who we are. This year’s interior design trends focus on creating spaces that authentically reflect the homeowner’s style and will last for years to come. Here are the top 2023 interior design trends.
We partner with Southern Energy Management to measure the effects of our sustainability on the environment as well as the advantages for our residents. Keep reading our Q3 2022 sustainability update, you won’t believe these savings!
We are so excited to honor Myatt Landscaping, Briar Chapel and Wendell Falls' landscaping partner, with a 2022 Robert B. McLeod Partners in Placemaking award!
We are so excited to announce that Brookfield Properties won Development Company of the Year and Homes By Dickerson took home eight awards at the 2022 MAME awards!
Briar Chapel is one of the largest green communities in the Triangle, and our sustainability initiatives continue to improve each year. Check out our Q1 sustainability update.
Each quarter, our partner Southern Energy Management releases an energy savings report for Briar Chapel, highlighting the community and home savings from our green building program.
Ben Roberts -- CrossFit Coach, fitness enthusiast and wellness expert -- joined forces with Alyssa Alegre, Briar Chapel’s activities director, to create a solution for Briar Chapel residents - “CrossFit Kids in the Park.”
As you’re finding your perfect home, how do you decide on the right layout? Here are questions to ask when choosing a floor plan for you and your family.
Living in Briar Chapel is sweet for multiple reasons. Sink your teeth into a few of our favorite Chapel Hill restaurants and eateries - all just a hop, skip and a jump away from your home.
Briar Chapel’s fall festivities are no tricks and all treats! Community Lifestyle Director Alyssa Alegre is dishing out the sweet scoop on all the spectacularly spooky Halloween happenings.
One of the best parts about life in Briar Chapel is the abundance of activities around the area. Hop in the car and take a delightful day trip with the family.
For the second year in a row, Newland was honored with the award for "Development Company of the Year" by the Home Builders Association of the Triangle.
Good news for homebuyers in Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill! Triangle counties rank well in areas expected to be least vulnerable to impacts by the pandemic.
Fun family activities at Briar Chapel’s 20+ parks and trails. Keep reading for the rundown of a few of our parks and fun activities suggestions to fill your afternoons!
We’ve curated our top 9 fitness tips just for you. Take advantage of these easy, fun ways to use the space in and around your home that will get your heart rate pumping!
We understand the challenges and benefits of working from home; here are our top tips to curate an office space and to structure your work time for maximum productivity.
Some of us have been left with a little extra time on our hands this spring season. Check out some helpful tips for cleaning those forgotten and hard to reach areas around the house.
Efficiently downsizing your lifestyle during a move. Whether you’re moving from a large home to a townhome, or an empty nester looking to streamline, downsizing is a common path for many homebuyers.
The well-being of our community is our priority. We're postponing previously-scheduled community events in the immediate future. Our model homes remain open until further notice.
Buying a home for the first time can be an exciting and rewarding experience. As one of the most significant purchases you will make in your life, you want to ensure you are prepared properly in order to set yourself on the path to success.
Chatham County is a destination known for its rich history and beautiful nature. Did you know it’s also a great place to live, work and raise a family?
Each quarter, Newland Communities sends out an update for our customers and residents on construction, commercial happenings, and new amenities being added to Briar Chapel!
"Coined in 2013 in The New York Times, the term “hipsturbia” refers to renewed interest in suburban placemaking and walkable destination development...And while the term hipsturbia is often associated with the younger generation of homebuyers, in practice, these [master-planned] communities host a wide variety of residents of all generations."
A gorgeous complex joins our community. Briar Chapel and Blue Heron Asset Management are launching one of the first large-scale, high-end apartment complexes on the 15-501 Corridor.
Delightful designs found in Briar Chapel homes. When designing your primary bedroom, take note of these delightful design trends that promise to be hot in 2020.
Everyone wants to live in the home of his or her dreams, but it's best to take first thing's first - Decide on a home plan that fits your needs and budget.
With so many celebrations and events, it can be daunting to find the right one for your family. This Independence Day, we have great options that are sure to be a blast!
Don't miss out on this great time to buy a home! This drop in rates gives you more purchasing power to lock in lower monthly payments and purchase more home for your money.
The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped nearly a quarter point this week, its biggest drop in more than a decade. Now is the time to buy!
Hosted on-site at Briar Chapel, the Pepper Festival – one of the area’s largest chef competitions – features live music, kids’ activities and all-you-can-eat-and-drink pepper goodness!
The award-winning New Homes and Ideas Magazine featured Briar Chapel as a prominent master-planned community, exploring the ins and outs of its mixed-use lifestyle.
Briar Chapel and Wendell Falls, the Triangle’s master-planned communities by Newland Communities, topped the Triangle Parade of Homes with nine combined awards.
If you're wondering about how a new shade of paint will look in the kitchen, or the best way to arrange your new, fabulous furniture, we have the app—actually, apps!—for that.
There's a pair of shoes flurried with dust bunnies in the back of your closet, a spotless set of clubs you bought to impress your boss on the back nine in the garage, and a stack of last year's Fast Company issues on your coffee table.
We would all do anything for our furry kids, but they can provide challenges from time to time — especially when enjoying your new home. Here are a few low-key ways to achieve harmony with your pets!
Of course you want your home to sell fast and bring top dollar. Here’s a rundown of friendly reminders on prepping your house into a welcoming and marketable home.
1) Personalize Your Home Structural choices: additional bedrooms, home offices, dens, extended patios, casitas, and more. Design choices: cabinets, counter tops, appliances, flooring, luxurious bathrooms and more.
With spring right around the corner, there's no better time to spruce up your outdoor living space than our Greenest Open House, slated for March 21st, 2015!
I had a chance to sit down and chat with Joe Norwood, the Lennar representative for Briar Chapel. Read on to hear what he had to say, from green building to the homebuying process.
We love hearing about why our residents chose Briar Chapel. In this testimonial, Jonathan Greene discusses his interests, neighbors, and other great things that make Briar Chapel home.
Briar Chapel takes advantage of its on-site dog park to host a Dog Days of Summer event benefiting local pet charity Paws4ever. With dogie ice cream, a pet training seminar, costume contest and trail trot being offered, a good time will be had by all.
An ode to food trucks, this culinary craze is making quite the splash. Lucky for us, the Triangle has developed quite the food truck scene over the years and people are starting to take notice. Found at practically every large public gathering, these mobile restaurants sure know how to cook!
Open houses are fun, especially when there's a lot to see. Lucky for you, we're hosting Chapel Hill's Largest and Greenest Open House! Come to Briar Chapel and view 40+ move-in ready homes of all size and price ranges.
With seven entries in this years Green Home Tour, the builders at Briar Chapel really stepped it up. This means more of the green-built homes you love but less driving around. Come out and see us!
Every day is Earth Day at Briar Chapel, but we just couldn't resisit throwing an actual celebration. Kicking off the day is a 5k beneffitting our friends at The Abundance Foundation, followed by a festival. With food trucks, games, live music and even a beer tasting, there's really no better way to spend your Saturday.
When moving, the decision of where to purchase a home can be a bit daunting. Lucky for you, the Triangle – Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, NC – has it all.
Earth Day in Briar Chapel is always a fabulous day, but we were especially excited this year as our event grew larger than year’s past. Your commitment to supporting the community in which you live was a truly amazing gesture – we enjoyed spending our day with you!
From the community garden to hiking trails to our commitment to green living, there is a lot to love about Briar Chapel! But, could you describe our community in just one word?
Like so many others across the country, the residents at Briar Chapel are reaping the benefits of a community garden, and just in time: it's almost Earth Day!
As the owner of Fullsteam, a Southern-inspired brewery in Durham, I struggle a bit with whether what we do is "sustainable." Since our launch in August of 2010, Head Brewer Chris Davis and I have embarked on a journey to explore what it means to be a Southern brewery,
At Briar Chapel community is part of everything we do; from the homes we build and the neighborhoods we develop to the relationships we build with area businesses and non-profit organizations.
The Consumer Confidence Index, which had increased in February, did see a slight pull-back in March on gas price concerns, but anecdotal evidence shows us that consumers and home builders are again returning to contracts and closings here in the Triangle New Home purchase market.
Earth Day is almost here and we are especially excited at Briar Chapel! If you’ve joined us in the past – you know you’re in for a treat! Come early and stay late this year as we celebrate all things local.
Fun, retro, shiny, and CUTE – These are just a few of the words that came to mind upon seeing a “Buddy” Scooter in person for the first time during my visit to Combustion Cycles.
MorningStar Homes has been carefully crafting beautiful living spaces in this area. Helping set the stage for a lifetime of memories in your new home, in 2010 they began offering their expertise to homebuyers in Briar Chapel.
Whether it is a book, an advertisement, a TV commercial, a persuasive email, a feature length film or a short film, if you want to communicate effectively, you have to be able to tell a story.
In addition to being a wonderful employer, Homes by Dickerson also makes the homebuying experience seamless for their customers. Vice President of Construction Brant Chesson tells us how.
At Briar Chapel we would like to take a moment to summarize the many successes and “wins” that we enjoyed as a community in 2011 along with all the great, new shiny things we have to look forward to in 2012.
The Triangle Off-road cyclists is the wonderful group of mountain biking pros that we work closely with at Briar Chapel from trail buliding, organized trail rides and events onsite to their own host of meet-up events planned around the Triangle. This is the "go to" organization for trails!
First it was Greece –and now Italy. The markets have their sights set on Europe these days – and US Treasury Yields have been dropping again due to the uncertainty surrounding the European Debt Crisis. Mortgage Rates, which tend to follow the direction of Yield movement, continue to hover within a very attractive range.
Even though the Weather has been beautiful - cool weather is on its way. That is why we thought we would take a few mintues to remind you of several important things to remember when caring for your pets during the fall and winter months.
There's barely a need to leave your own back yard, let alone this beautiful, green-built community. Here, with a little insight from a few of Briar Chapel’s own, you will find many reasons why you may just discover Briar Chapel to be your perfect place.
When it comes to the 2011 Parade of Homes, an appetizer just wasn't quite enough. We should first start by congratulating our Parade Winners: Homes by Dickerson for Gold and David Weekley Homes for Silver.
Global Concerns, Domestic Uncertainty, Housing Headwinds and Increasing Jobless Claims. These and other economic subjects seem to be dominating the headlines. The silver lining for housing is that Mortgage Rates are at 60 Year Lows - but can low rates really be a silver bullet?
Do you think your pepper jelly will tempt the taste buds of our local judges? Why not try it and see? Much like a pie baking contest at your annual fair - pepper jelly simply makes sense, as this is the season for harvesting peppers as well as supporting a local non-profit organization
Here we are only a week away! And we want to highlight another way for you to show of your skills in our Best Backyard Athlete competition. (If you aren't familiar with the OktoberBEST event, please see our earlier blog about our fall celebration.)
Preparations continue for our OktoberBEST event - we thought we would check in and share with you more details of one of the competitions, The Greatest Arm Chair Athlete.
We at Dogwood Veterinary Hospital & Pet Resort are so excited to participate in this year's OktoberBEST at Briar Chapel! This time of year always brings fond memories of family gatherings. If you're like us, your pets play just as big a role in these gatherings as anyone else.
The summer has been long and hot and we crave those cool breezes of September/October. So to honor the advent of fall and in order to offer a "sneak preview" of our newest neighborhood, we decided to host OktoberBEST at Briar Chapel.
For a real estate agent, joining a new community can be an exciting adventure. Stop by Briar Chapel to help us welcome the newest additions to the team.
August is usually a relatively calm month for trading and economic data as most of Washington is out on vacation, and the markets tend to stay within a narrow trading range. But certainly not this year!!
Homes By Dickerson has just broken ground on several home sites along the Dark Forest Drive cul-de-sac. Because of the unique nature of the street configuration, there are some real differences in possible home citing here.
If you are like most people, it's been very busy so far and we're just heading into the thick of the July heat…At Briar Chapel, we're no different - we've been full of events every day of the week keeping our resident's busy, busy, busy!
I wanted to start off the month talking about jobs here in the Triangle. While the National story is certainly nothing to write home about, the Triangle jobs picture is much healthier than its National counterpart.
Wow, I can't believe it's been six months since we began our homebuilding journey. Closing day finally arrived and went off without a hitch; we were in and out in 30 minutes!
To bring you up to speed. At the start to this green blog series, we identified the key areas of development where we felt we could make the most immediate impact and have committed to expanding more on each to give readers greater insight into what makes Briar Chapel "GREEN".
Move-in week is finally HERE, and the family is so excited! In the final stages of building our new home we learned about another great benefit of building with David Weekley Homes - all buyers receive a personal meeting with the landscape company.
Hello and welcome to the View from the Porch Housing and Mortgage Blog - I'm Jeremy Salemson, Chief Executive Officer of Corporate Investors Mortgage Group, Inc. We're a boutique Mortgage Bank helping homeowners achieve their dreams throughout the Triangle and North Carolina.
For those of you following the progress of the fabulous trails here at Briar Chapel, you may already be aware of the non-profit organization we are working with to develop and build the 24 miles of hiking and biking adventure that will be found on site.
At Briar Chapel, everyone home must pass a final inspection in order to receive its Energy Star Certification. Why is this certification important? Because there are discounts provided by Progress Energy/Duke Energy and PSNC for homes that are Energy Star certified.
How fortunate we are to have been introduced to artist, Ellen Giamportone. Admired and befriended by one of our resident's, Ellen is an absolute delight and full of fantastic "layers" of experience, that as you engage in conversation with her are revealed gradually and mysteriously.
Today, we will talk about natural resource assessment and wildlife habitat protection. It sounds simple enough, but indeed this is a very complex and important component (aren't they all?)
As we make our way into 2011 - isn't it time we heard from our favorite frog blogger? Well, we were lucky enough to catch up with him as he shared "everything you wanted to know about a green home but were afraid to ask"...enjoy!
Well, Bill reminds us (again) of the rich, local culture and experiences we can find exploring the area - and it's all right here, right under your nose!
The 2nd Annual Briar Chapel 5k is tomorrow, Saturday, April 17th - this following conversation with Dr. Bradshaw of Back Solutions might offer some helpful insights to you if you happen to be an avid runner or just someone on your feet often.
Along with the Earth Day Festivities at Briar Chapel the weekend of April 17 - 18, we are excited to be raising awareness around living sustainably with the Town of Chapel Hill and other local businesses during Earth Action Day April 10th.
On Sunday, April 18th we will host a Celebrity Chef Charity Event featuring several Triangle Chefs demonstrating their favorite recipes using locally and healthfully grown foods in each of our model homes. Today we are talking with Chef Jimmy Reale.
As we approach Earth Day on April 22, 2010, we at Briar Chapel view this as a special opportunity to bring a greater awareness to the cornerstones that we live and breathe on a daily basis.
