Food Lion has announced the company will be remodeling its lineup of 25 Fayetteville market grocery stores this year.

A couple of locations have already begun construction to transition to the new format, which is expected to be completed in all the local stores on a rolling basis between April and October.

At this time, the stores at 7071 Raeford Road and 1738 Bingham Drive are under construction, according to spokeswoman Erin DeWaters.

"However, customers at other locations may also be experiencing changes," she said in an email Friday. "In all stores, we are taking steps to minimize any customer disruptions."

The Salisbury-based Food Lion first announced plans for the do-over initiative last May, dubbing the strategy "Easy, Fresh and Affordable. You Can Count on Food Lion Every Day!"

"We announced we would remodel stores in markets over time," DeWaters replied when asked if the store enhancements and addition of gourmet items are in response to The Fresh Market coming to Fayetteville.

To date, the company has remodeled 76 stores in the greater Wilmington and Greenville markets. The greater Raleigh-designated market area, which includes Fayetteville, is third in line.

"It's really part of a larger strategy and larger plan," she said.

Among the planned changes to be incorporated into the Fayetteville supermarkets, according to a company news release:

New register systems that are expected to make checkout faster.

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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Spring springs eternal at Louisville's Home, Garden and Remodeling Show at the Kentucky Exposition Center this weekend.

"I like the way the water flows in," said Harvey Smith, admiring a backyard fountain with its own model railroad layout. "I got one part down in my yard that I could possibly put that in. But it'd be heck putting in all those rocks."

Smith was waiting while his friend was negotiating. The goal: cabinetry for the electronics in his Man Cave.

"It's definitely worth our time and effort to come here," said Pat Ballard, of Bardstown's M&H Custom Cabinets. "We tracked about 15 jobs from last year and that translated into about $200,000 worth of work."

Return on investment explains why the show is in its 65th year, drawing more than 350 vendors in grills, floors, windows, mowers, and almost all supplies and equipment in between. It's a reminder than more and more of us see our getaways as journeys that begin and end in our own backyards.

"You get great ideas out here," Smith said, as he showed off photos of his back deck, a testimonial to do-it-yourself projects.

"It would be nice if people would say that upfront," landscape sculptor Ardie Greenamyer said. "Because then we can help them to do that."

Greenamyer was glad that his custom fire pits were drawing raves and double-takes from passers-by.

One, a globe with cutouts in the shape of continents, took 155 hours to create. The downside? More than a few admirers were asking him how they could re-create it, rather than hiring him to do it for them.

"It's how I earning my living," he explained. "But more than that, it's cheapening the result. You can't go to school-grade school, high school or college, and get the answers to the tests and learn anything. Sometimes you have to go through and learn things the hard way."

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Residential architecture is more than just making a house look pretty. Function is a critical feature of any home and must be given equal or even greater billing than aesthetics.

Residential architecture is a unique branch of architecture because clients are also the end users. When designing a large commercial or institutional building, architects have the end users in mind but rarely talk to them during the design process think bank officers versus bank tellers or school district authorities versus teachers. Design is directed with an eye to policies and procedures, rather than to individuals. With a home, the design can be tailored to individuals.

In our office, we discuss what we call life-centered design. We work to design spaces that improve the everyday life of those who live in and visit the home. Personal life, interpersonal life and social life interconnect in a home, so it functions best when each of these areas is addressed in the design process.

Personal life relates to places in a home that are frequented by specific family members, such as parents in the master suite, perhaps one or both parents in a working office area and whoever takes charge of everything that happens in the laundry room.

Interpersonal life refers to how the family functions as a unit or, in other words, refers to shared family spaces. Childrens bedrooms may be in this category, along with areas such as the kitchen, dining area, living and family rooms, mud room, and so on. When these spaces are sized and organized to accommodate all who use them, it makes for a more calm and peaceful life.

A familys social life will affect the public spaces in a home. This includes some of the areas listed above, such as a family room, but not areas that are unavailable to guests, such as a mud room. Understanding which spaces will hold many people as opposed to just family members helps to create them in the right sizes.

There are many ways a home functions. Some people store toys in individual childrens bedrooms and use them as play areas when friends come over, making the bedroom a social room. Others reserve these functions for a designated playroom, which keeps the bedrooms in the personal category.

It is therefore critical that a client and architect spend time discussing and analyzing how each family functions to create a life-centered design. These conversations lead to adding unique spaces and interesting elements to homes that change and improve the way people live.

It is best if these conversations happen during programming, the beginning phase of design, when architechts and clients can discuss what is and isn't working in a home. The architect should get to know clients and their personal situations. This is the time to do a little dreaming, to discuss interests and hobbies as well as laundry requirements.

A few years ago, we worked with a family with school-aged children. The busy moms number one complaint was that her laundry room was in the basement. She also struggled with not having a place of her own to organize the family, pay bills and keep everyones schedule straight.

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