Custom Fit
Five years after leaving a career in New York to start her own design firm (and a family) in Baltimore, Laura Hodges got a…
French Accent
Designers and collectors have been known to wait hours for the doors to open at Georgetown’s Marston Luce Antiques when one of its seasonal…
Classical Beauty
Few DC designers can create quintessentially classical interiors like Frank Babb Randolph, who has been transforming homes in and around the nation’s capital for…
Subtle Style
Soon after moving to Washington, Cris Briger got an enthusiastic greeting from a designer she met at a party who remembered the to-the-trade furnishings…
Private Landing
Tucked into a private landing on Spa Creek, a modest block of brick, 1980s-era townhouses offers placid views of a row of companion boat…
A Classic Reborn
Magical isn’t too fabulous a word to describe architect Christian Zapatka’s transformation of an 8,000-square-foot, 1970s colonial-style house in Potomac. The clients, a successful…
Casual Chic
Ryland Witt still remembers visiting the rambler in Richmond as a seven-year-old. It was her older cousins’ house and, unlike Witt’s own home, it…
Rocky Mountain High
Designer Kristin Peake experienced Colorado for the first time when she descended in a small plane into mile-and-a-half-high Aspen. Its eponymous poplar trees quaked…
Simple Roots
Architect Mark Buchanan remembers tramping through a barn and wandering around a pond, fields and outbuildings on his client’s horse farm near Middleburg when…
Labor of Love
Bethesda designer Diane Clements was finishing major projects for two couples when they suggested she meet their husbands’ boss, Bill Shaw, who was then…
Harbor View
Photography by Thomas Arledge Peter Bowe cherishes a lifelong affinity for the water. As a child, he competed in Annapolis sailing regattas and as…
Glass tower
Matthew Small, an executive at the educational software firm Blackboard, Inc., couldn’t have been surer of his goals for the merger of his Penn…
Rustic Style
In a tough situation, designer Sharon Kleinman and her client proved to be a dynamic team. After redecorating and selling two major Florida properties,…
Family Affair
Eleanor Niermann’s world is filled with memories of her parents’ boundless talent for creating beautiful furnishings. The Maryland company they founded in 1978—maker of…
Baltimore Glam
Baltimore designer Charlene Petersen and her New York City-bred client are young, vibrant—and certain about the trajectory they were on to meet and turn…
Dream Kitchens: A Fresh, Modern Edge
Rather than build a new house from scratch, a Baltimore couple asked architect Vince Greene and designer Jay Jenkins to update the traditional interiors…
Past Perfect
The farmhouse was a holdover from early in the last century, haphazardly altered over many years by eight different owners to fit the needs…
Living Light
MAY/JUNE 2012 To view before photos click here. The big fieldstone house occupied a quiet Arlington side street, a stalwart reminder of a time…