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Meet Andrew Reid Formerly an apprentice under his grandfather and father, Andrew now owns and operates Reid Classics in Dothan, Alabama. While times have changed since the workshop first opened its doors 80 years ago, the quality and craftsmanship of the Reid tradition have been carefully passed down through the generations, still offering an elaborate […]

Andrew Reid – Reid Classics

Meet Michael Coffey Michael Coffey grew up surrounded by nature in rural South Florida. As a boy, Michael was always tinkering and fixing things, and often grown-ups told him he would become an engineer. Fast-forward a few decades and you can find him solving some of Crane Island’s most complex civil engineering challenges.  As a […]

Michael Coffey PhD, PE

Progress Update – March 2019 Layer By Layer.. This is the time when a home really starts to take shape with the beginning layers of the outside cladding and the interior trim out. In the past 30 days the framing was completed, the interior “rough in” with electrical, mechanical, plumbing and gas. Did we mention […]

The 2019 Southern Living Idea House – Progress March 2019

Why Crane Island? Written By Lori Hoerl With both national and international clientele, Jan can be selective about the projects she chooses to collaborate on. She has worked with both Southern Living Idea House and Coastal Living Idea House teams. When it came to Crane Island, however, she will tell you it was the quality […]

Jan Clouse, President – Carolina Lanterns & Lighting – Part II of II

History Meets Art on the River In a day and age where life is increasingly hurried and commercialized, there are still places that evoke a sense of days gone by and people deeply rooted in a way of life that is simpler and simply, a work of art. On the north end of Amelia Island, […]

History Meets Art on the River

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