Ask the Pros: Architecture Describe the challenges and rewards of designing homes in the Chesapeake Bay region.  The superlative challenge is creating a unique piece of architecture that is site-specific. […]

Nordic Style The potent trifecta of character, greenery, and location lured a couple to DC’s picturesque Cleveland Park in 2007. “We’re both native Washingtonians and have always enjoyed the cozy charms […]

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 Heights home she […]

Rustic Retreat On a trek through rural Loudoun County, a curvy one-lane road dotted with horse farms splits off to a mile-long drive. Meandering past vineyards and a pond, guests […]

Applause Landmark Restored The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building stands center stage on the National Mall. Also known as the Castle, it’s embellished with Gothic Revival spires and porticoes—an indelible […]

Mid-Century Marvel Luis and Cara Medeiros long enjoyed visiting Gibson Island near Annapolis, but when they decided to look for a home to purchase, they were underwhelmed. “A lot of […]

When Sigrid and Joshua Smitt Goldman first visited the five-acre Great Falls lot where they would build their future home, they found their Shangri La. Dotted with large, wooded properties, […]

Ambassadors, presidents and Hollywood stars from Elizabeth Taylor to Vincent Price have all hobnobbed in this grand 1927 stone manor in DC’s Massachusetts Heights. But thanks to a 2012 renovation […]

About two miles past the Maryland border into West Virginia, the Potomac River bends in a soft L, fringed on one side by a jagged limestone cliff rising up 90 […]

Once their kids had flown the coop, Liz and Jim Underhill decided to sell their perch in Bethesda and start anew in DC’s Foxhall neighborhood. “Our former home was very […]

When he’s not pulling off perfect triple lutzes on the ice or hosting star-studded skating shows, two-time Olympian Michael Weiss can be found studying house plans and visiting construction sites. […]

Tucked into the picturesque grounds of Woodlawn Plantation in Alexandria is a structure from a completely different era. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939, the Pope-Leighey House exemplifies the […]

The Washington Navy Yard’s diminutive Watch Box has had a checkered past. First erected around 1840 as a sentry post for marines guarding the Latrobe Gate (above, right), it was […]

Acorn Deck House Company occupies an unusual niche in the post-and-beam, custom-housing market. Within the walls of its 85,000-square-foot factory in Acton, Massachusetts, the company manufactures the prefabricated components of […]

Each year, a panel of building-industry professionals is selected to judge new homes and communities in the Mid-Atlantic region, and to choose their nominees for the Great American Living Awards. […]

Situated along the Potomac River in the shadow of Mount Vernon, Jeff and Amiya Veatch’s home is a study in contrasts. And that was precisely the plan. Outside, every detail—from […]