Brown Davis infuses a Potomac home with color to complement the owners’ eclectic art collection.

2010 Halls of Fame Design House.

Designer Andrea Houck upgrades an Arlington condo with inspired results.

The Redskins safety unwinds in an elegant Leesburg home.

Five underdiscovered designers bring a fresh perspective to the local design scene.

An undiscovered designer brings a fresh perspective to the local design scene.

An undiscovered designer brings a fresh perspective to the local design scene.

An undiscovered designer brings a fresh perspective to the local design scene.

An undiscovered designer brings a fresh perspective to the local design scene

Cares are tossed aside at a retreat in Bethany Beach where guests are always welcome.

Susan Beimler creates a sense of relaxed elegance in a quaint 1938 row house.

Eclectic style and graceful proportions are hallmarks of designer Skip Sroka's new home in Phillips Park.

Camille Saum rediscovers her childhood roots in a lavish apartment renovation.

Beth Kittrell transforms a 1980s home into a waterfront playground for a family of five.

Celia Welch updates a stately row house with a careful nod to its illustrious past.

A dazzling renovation by architect Andreas Charalambous imparts clean lines and a strong connection to the outdoors.

A Bethesda home becomes a glamorous showcase for the owner's art collection.

Designer David H. Mitchell masterfully combines art, antiques and modern pieces in media maven Gloria Dittus's Kalorama home.

Designer Marlene Weiss Alexander uses traditional design to meet modern art in an English Country-style house.

The Washington Design Center's new lobby.

Interior designer Jennifer Stoner updates a home with color and timeless style.

Carlos Interiors creates window treatments that let in the view.

Our annual survey of area designers and architects reveals their industry favorites.

ColePrévost instills a DC penthouse with custom finishes and a calm, Asian-inspired aesthetic.

A Virginia couple creates an inviting home away from home for family and friends.

MAY/JUNE 2008 On a balmy afternoon in March, Philippe Cousteau, Jr., greets visitors to his Pentagon

Six up-and-coming designers bring a fresh perspective to the local design scene.

William Powell replaces a condo's standard appointments with a luxe blend of custom furnishings.

Natascha Folens transforms a traditional Great Falls Colonial into a harmonious retreat that reflects her Belgian heritage.

Ernesto Santalla's bold, innovative design ideas give a Northwest DC apartment a new lease on life.

Designer Diane Gordy customizes a Chevy Chase condominium with bold, unexpected accents.

Interior designer Barbara Hawthorn breathes life into a traditional Colonial.

Organic shapes and textures lend this modern Kalorama condo a vibe that's anything but stark.

Designer Patrick Sutton updates a serene Baltimore residence with color and whimsy.

Ernesto Santalla puts a modern spin on a traditional house in DC.

Interior designer Justine Sancho livens up a young client's home with color and texture.

Clean lines and a serene color scheme provide a soothing backdrop to the artwork in Susan Gulick's Virginia home.

Known for his bold moves on the ice, Washington Capitals defenseman Mike Green is just as daring when it comes to design. Settling in for his fourth season on the team, Green purchased a new penthouse loft in Clarendon last summer.

Kitchen designer Jennifer Gilmer and her architect breathe new life into a 1920s bungalow in Bethesda.

Margery Wedderburn creates a sophisticated yet family-friendly home.

Six rising stars on the local design scene.

When William S. Cohen and his wife Janet Langhart Cohen settled into their new luxury penthouse, familiar furnishings and memorabilia from their travels made them feel instantly at home.

Southern magnolias replace traditional evergreens in two McLean homes decorated for the holidays.

Designer Debbie Wiener makes stylish, custom interiors resilient enough for an entire family.

An architect and an interior designer collaborate on a new custom home full of timeless grace.

Alice Busch appoints a Virginia home with luxurious finishes and rich details.

A former decorator show house is redesigned for "real life" by Ame Gold.

An architect and interior designer collaborate to make a family dream home a reality.

The Fall 2008 Design House at The Washington Design Center.

Designer Gwen Seidlitz's new home in Vienna brims with timeless, Old World style.

A design/build competition helps wipe out hunger; new books, showrooms and more.

Washington Redskins tackle Chris Samuels and Monique Cox embellish their Vienna home with vibrant shades of persimmon and gold.

Radio personality Donnie Simpson's expansive new home boasts a two-story library, a wine cellar, a cigar room, a soundproof studio and a putting green.

Art consultant Judy Weisman creates a harmonious backdrop for her carefully curated collection.

Piaggio prides herself on being a "non-stylized designer" who creates interiors that reflect a client's aesthetic and lifestyle.

Decorating should be appropriate", says Sally Quinn, seated in the living room of her 18th-century home in Georgetown.

Designer Skip Sroka creates interior spaces that boldly display his client's collection of American Realism.

Interior designer Dan Proctor helps his clients create sophisticated interiors embellished with world-class art in their new home in Ellicott City.

Newly elected Mayor Adrian Fenty and Michelle Cross Fenty turn a 1950s rambler into a vibrant family home.

When Camille Beers takes on a project, she likes to think outside the box, which is exactly what happened when she landed the dining room space in The Washington Design Center's Spring 2008 Design House.

Alex Stefan and Helena Pulyaeva transform their 1980s Bethesda home with clean-lined furnishings and a collection of expressionist art.

The grandson of Jacques Yves-Cousteau, this present-day explorer and environmentalist carries on the family business with 21st-century flair.

A light-filled home in Great Falls provides the perfect environment for a couple's growing art collection.

"A Summer House" is the name of the bright and breezy Spring 2007 Design House at The Washington Design Center, co-sponsored by HOME & DESIGN.

A loyal devotee of the Arts and Crafts movement, designer Rob Morris takes the historical style one step further in the creation of his new Virginia residence.

Designer Cindi LaPietra revamps a 71-year-old manor house in North Potomac and creates a timeless style for today.

Architect and kitchen designer J. Paul Lobkovich and partner Michael Conway Pare down their new McLean residence, embracing fresh, clean lines and a brave new approach to color.

A newly renovated modern house in the woods shows off its owners' collection of native art and nature photography.

The prominent Washington, DC, interior designer Nestor Santa-Cruz has been working hard to create the perfect apartment for one of his most design-conscious clients: himself.

A design duo augments their clients' furniture and art collections with the right pieces to marry modern and traditional styles.

Interior designer Annette Hannon refines a family's once-cluttered home in McLean into a comfortable and elegant retreat.

Designer Skip Sroka creates a stylish New York pied-a-terre.

A family of four swaps Manhattan digs for a spacious suburban home infused with color and style.

It's no surprise that the kitchen is the heart of the Wesley Heights home shared by chef Geoff Tracy and his wife, Norah O'Donnell, chief Washington correspondent for MSNBC.

Mutual friends first introduced Joe Ireland and Julie Weber when they were in high school in Montgomery County. As fate would have it, when Ireland launched his own design firm in 2003, he asked Weber to join him as a business partner.

A former decorator show house is redesigned for "real life" by Ame Gold

Designer Gloria Capron's Kensington home brims with an eclectic, anything-goes attitude.

Designer Sarah Boyer Jenkins gives a Virginia retreat an Old World makeover.

Interior designer Basha White creates simple and serene interiors in a family home in Great Falls.

Paul Corrie, a Northern Virginia native, took a roundabout path to his design career; he went to law school.

There's an uneasy paradox surrounding many new luxury homes today. The vast square footage and homogeneous amenities can leave the interiors devoid of warmth and personality. Too often they are all body and no soul.

Though she encourages clients to blend unique antiques into their homes, Miller characterizes the bulk of her work as contemporary.

According to these designers, no place says summer all year round like Miami. So what better way to embrace the season than with a view from the penthouse overlooking the Intercoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean beyond?

One of the side effects of owning a growing art collection is a constant need for adequate display space. In the best of worlds, fine art finds a home in another creative art form: architecture that enables the art to take center stage.

At home with U. S. Ambassador to Barbados Mary Ourisman and Mandell Ourisman.

As Donna Sobeck sent her youngest son off to college, she dreamed of downsizing to a home similar to the one she and her husband Dave, a Bethesda-based accountant, owned in New England before moving to Maryland 18 years ago.

Interior design students take on the challenge of decorating a renovated Arlington home using high-style but affordable furnishings from Ikea.

This ABC News correspondent and his wife Jennifer create a stylish Washington retreat.

Homeowner Carole Harris sought a fresh, contemporary look for her renovation.

For many, building a dream home represents a culmination of a lifetime of hard work, a vision and the resources to bring the dream to fruition. Larry Pratt’s journey to build his dream house includes all of these elements.

Living on the East Coast for the first time, at least for this homeowner, meant taking a chance on a Colonial architectural style ubiquitous to the DC suburb of McLean, Virginia.

It's not far from Baltimore to Silver Spring, Maryland, home of Discovery Communications. For Towson native Evan Farmer, however, it was a rather more complicated route to hosting TLC's "While You Were Out."

When the Niroos built their custom home in Potomac, Maryland, they drew on their love of Old World European construction and design.

Interior designer Fabiola Martens and her husband, architectural designer and builder Rudi Djabbarzadeh, are full of surprises.

When Stacy Mendler and her family moved to their new home in McLean, she turned to Studio Nuovo partners Sheree Friedman and Ricardo Ramos to help her make the transition from a country look with an emphasis on heirloom antiques to a more eclectic traditional style.

A design team transforms servant's quarters into a contemporary family retreat.

For empty nesters, downsizing offers a seductive opportunity to cast previous lives to the wind and start anew. But when the past involves generations of memories, a trove of cherished antiques and collections that range from contemporary art to old English biscuit tins, throwing things away is not an option.

Designer Alice Busch helps a young couple create an elegant new home in record time.

After a year in residence, Janeen Stone was ready to redesign the kitchen in her Potomac home.

When these homeowners married more than a decade ago, she had four children and he had three. They had to find a house to accommodate a total of seven children spanning in age from grade school to college.

Life is a moveable feast in the row house that this award-winning chef shares with his family.

Designers revived a Georgian mansion in the 34th Annual NSO Decorators' Show House.

Interior designer Therese Baron Gurney infuses a traditional Maryland home with symmetry and modern style.

There are times when an interior designer needs to play the role of disappearing artist. That was the case when Nestor Santa-Cruz overhauled his clients' 1910 Adams Morgan row house.

During her search for a new home three years ago, Michelle Ridge fell in love at first sight with her Tudor house and its Chevy Chase neighborhood of Kenwood, noted for the riot of cherry blossom trees that turn its streets pink every spring.