Tysons Area Shopping Guide
ARCHITECTURAL CERAMICS is a local tile mecca touting 40-plus brands in everything from ceramic to glass to cement, with complimentary design services. 172 Maple…
Northwest DC Area Shopping Guide
CADY’S ALLEY/GEORGETOWN BAKER is known for classic furniture ranging from contemporary to antique reproduction. Designers include Barbara Barry and Darryl Carter, who debuted new…
Bethesda Area Shopping Guide
ARCHITECTURAL CERAMICS, a local tile mecca, carries 40-plus brands in everything from ceramic to glass to cement, with complimentary design services. 6807 Wisconsin Avenue,…
Grand Openings
Architectural Ceramics, the upscale tile emporium, moved its Falls Church location to Vienna in February 2017. The Rockville-based company lures designers and contractors with…
LCA Awards: Grand Retreat
Homeowners with a faulty fountain called on Hans Bleinberger of McHale Landscape Design to fix it—beginning a close and enduring collaboration. Bleinberger went on…
LCA Awards: Rustic + Refined
When Joshua Dean of Wheat’s Landscape arrived to revamp a McLean landscape, he found a soggy yard with languishing trees and a few ferns…
LCA Awards: French Flair
The owners of a home overlooking an Annapolis creek called on landscape designer Nancy Lowry Moitrier and her husband, Pierre Moitrier, to integrate disparate…
LCA Awards: Blank Slate
Clients building a custom home in Leesburg, Virginia, tapped landscape architect Chad Talton of Surrounds, Inc., to join the design team early on and…
French Country Style
Clients who commissioned Creighton Enterprises to build their new house in Leesburg, Virginia, wanted the grounds to reflect the home’s French Country style. They…
The Great Outdoors
During the remodel of a grand Alexandria, Virginia, house, the owners tapped Botanical Decorators to create a landscape to match, with a historical feel,…
Natural Backdrop
When clients called McHale Landscape Design to refresh their Easton property in time for their daughter’s summer wedding, the job entailed a list of tasks…
Classic Design
After installing a brick archway and stone waterfall for a repeat client, Live Green Landscapes was asked to add a series of outdoor “rooms”…
Historic Idyll
A couple had finally found their ideal country home: an 18th-century historic farmhouse in Orlean, Virginia. Though they wanted a rustic, serene setting in which…
English Garden
When architect Faith Nevins Hawks and her husband, John Hawks, couldn’t find a country house to restore, they decided to build one from scratch….
Where to Shop
Washington’s 14th Street Corridor has undergone several transformations since its inception: A music hub in the 1920s, it morphed into “Auto Row” in the…
Wooded Refuge
Dissatisfied with their sloping, heavily wooded lot in Bethesda, a couple turned to landscape architect Richard Arentz to tame the wild yard into an…
English-Garden Style
Over the years, homeowner Ruth Suttle has repeatedly lent her classic English sensibility to her two-and-a-half-acre property in Potomac, creating lush gardens, family play…
The Great Outdoors: Zen Sanctuary
An involved client and a contoured site that was a “landscape architect’s dream” were the inspirations for landscape designer Phil Kelly of McHale to…
The Great Outdoors: Woodland Style
Landscape designer Morgan Washburn of Botanical Decorators faced a daunting challenge: His clients wanted a pool for entertaining on their heavily wooded lot in…
The Great Outdoors: Greenhouse Effect
A charming cedar-and-glass conservatory creates a focal point in a McLean landscape project by Howard Cohen of Surrounds, Inc. Initially, “the client just wanted a…