Life of the Party
Tom and Nancy Stout have always loved hosting parties, but it wasn’t easy in the Oakton home they shared for 18 years, where typical…
Modern Redux
RunningTo a casual observer, the Federal-style Kalorama row house would have seemed move-in ready: Its stately brick façade opened into well-proportioned rooms with crisply painted…
Smart Makeover: Seamless Style
While contemplating the renovation of the house where his client grew up, David Neumann’s first instinct was to tread lightly—especially with demolition. But he…
Portfolio: Beach Chic
After years of renting houses and descending on relatives in Bethany Beach, Delaware, a Potomac couple finally decided to build a vacation home of…
Color + Contrast
At first, there was only supposed be an addition. “We chose the house knowing it was too small,” says Kristin Handwerger of the Wesley…
Rays of Light
The 1992 contemporary house had fallen into disrepair by the time Bethesda architect Jim Rill was called to its sweeping shorefront on Maryland’s Gibson…
Weekend Oasis
There wasn’t much to the low-slung, ’50s-era rambler beyond where it sat: on a point overlooking San Domingo Creek with easy access to downtown…
All In The Details
It’s a perennial question among couples who have bought their first house in DC’s close-in neighborhoods, where small, pre-War homes are the norm: When…
Full Circle
Andrew Marks and his wife, Susan Esserman, had their eye on the future when they started looking for a new house. They loved their…
Star Quality
It all started with a gossip column. Anne Harkavy and David Ogden were looking for a home in the Arlington neighborhood where they were…
Suite Life
You can’t see it until you swing around the driveway of this well-appointed stone house in McLean, but once a guest arrives at the…
Urban Chic
The renovation was like peeling an onion—when one problem was fixed, another problem would reveal itself. And on it went for more than a…
Tres Chic
The battle was on to win the decorating hearts and minds of suburban homebuyers in a new townhouse development in Stone Ridge, Virginia. Given…
A Wrinkle in Time
As an expert and consultant on environmental sustainability, Kyle Tanger wanted to live the way he works. So when he and his wife, Lynn,…