"Company's coming!" is a phrase as common as cookies during the holiday season.
Before grandparents, in-laws, uncles or college boy- and girlfriends descend on your guest room, do a little fluffing up of the space.
For overnight visitors to be comfy under your roof, a good once-over and little touches here and there will roll out the welcome mat and invite a blissful snooze.

Virginia Fashion Week will host its first hair competition tonight, Oct. 28,  at Guadalajara Town Center, Virginia Beach. 
The event, which starts at 6 p.m., will feature three categories - cut, color and style; special occasions and fantasy. 

By Megan K. Scott
NEW YORK
Each day, Match.com sends Christie Hyde five potential mates based on preferences in her profile - age, height, education, religion, smoking.
But then she reads "slender" or "athletic and toned" for their preferred body type.
She's a size 24.

VIRGINIA BEACH
For more than nine years, Tim and Charity Figallo 's 120 square feet of kitchen space served its purpose - albeit tightly - feeding the couple's family, acting as a play area and entertaining countless friends.
"Our kitchen was small, but we made due," said Charity, 38. "We knew one day we would get around to fixing it up."

Four sailors were chosen from our local pool of enlisted men last May to appear in an upcoming edition of GQ magazine. Whoops! This page didn't re-direct to the proper Web page. Please click here. Thank you!

Had artist Donna Iona Drozda tried, she could not have come up with a more creative depiction of Val, her Jack Russell terrier.
The papier-mache pup, in a play bow, mouth wide open, red tongue lolling off to the side, and a ball between its paws, has Jack Russell terrier written all over it.

Explore Culpepper Landing homes before you actually go to Homearama 2009. Whoops! This page didn't re-direct to the proper Web page. Please click here. Thank you!

Want to know where to get a pasture-raised chicken or a just-picked persimmon? Or which restaurants strive to serve fresh, local ingredients?

Want to know where to get a pasture-raised chicken or a just-picked persimmon? Or which restaurants strive to serve fresh, local ingredients?

By Staci Dennis
Correspondent
Where were you in '82?
HBO made its television debut, Atari introduced Pac Man, and Trivial Pursuit was the hottest-selling board game.
Twenty-eight years ago Hampton Roads builders took a chance and signed on for the first Homearama.