Comfort Zone
Everyone has a comfort zone. Whether indoors or out, in a book or on a hike, the key to this sanctum is knowing when…
Artisanal Spirit
Spectacular workmanship abounds in a venerable Dupont Circle townhouse. American walnut doors and cabinetry feature the species’ pale heartwood, formerly the bane (and detritus)…
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
Subtle Style Soon after moving to Washington, Cris Briger got an enthusiastic greeting from a designer she met at a party who remembered the…
Private Landing
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…
A Classic Reborn
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…
Casual Chic
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…
Rocky Mountain High
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…
Simple Roots
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…
Labor of Love
Labor of Love Bethesda designer Diane Clements was finishing major projects for two couples when they suggested she meet their husbands’ boss, Bill Shaw,…
Harbor View
Harbor View Photography by Thomas Arledge Peter Bowe cherishes a lifelong affinity for the water. As a child, he competed in Annapolis sailing regattas…
Glass tower
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…
Rustic Style
Rustic Style In a tough situation, designer Sharon Kleinman and her client proved to be a dynamic team. After redecorating and selling two major…
Family Affair
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…
Baltimore Glam
Baltimore Glam designer Charlene Petersen and her New York City-bred client are young, vibrant—and certain about the trajectory they were on to meet and…
Past Perfect
Past Perfect The farmhouse was a holdover from early in the last century, haphazardly altered over many years by eight different owners to fit…
Dream Kitchens: A Fresh, Modern Edge
Dream Kitchens: A Fresh, Modern Edge Rather than build a new house from scratch, a Baltimore couple asked architect Vince Greene and designer Jay…
Living Light
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…