Regional Spotlight: Tysons Area
The Tysons area is home to an array of home-design showrooms; following is a list of them. Click on the links to learn more….
Regional Spotlight: Northwest DC/Arlington
Northwest DC is home to a wide array of home-design showrooms; following is a list of them. Click on the links to learn more. Cady’s…
Regional Spotlight: Bethesda Area
The Bethesda area is home to an array of home-design showrooms; following is a list of them. Click on the links to learn more….
Tysons Area Shopping Guide
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…
Northwest DC Area Shopping Guide
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…
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
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…
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors During the remodel of a grand Alexandria, Virginia, house, the owners tapped Botanical Decorators to create a landscape to match, with…
Natural Backdrop
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…
Classic Design
Classic Design After installing a brick archway and stone waterfall for a repeat client, Live Green Landscapes was asked to add a series of…
Historic Idyll
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…
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…
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…
Wooded Refuge
Wooded Refuge Dissatisfied with their sloping, heavily wooded lot in Bethesda, a couple turned to landscape architect Richard Arentz to tame the wild yard…