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Gentle Spirit

Anthony Wilder Design/Build marries East and West in a serene outdoor living space

Under Glass 


BarnesVanze Architects revamps 
a dilapidated pool house in airy, sophisticated style

Moment of Zen

An elaborate pool scape 
transforms a Great Falls 
backyard into a serene oasis

Great Ideas

Gentle Spirit

After enlisting Anthony Wilder Design/Build for seven previous makeovers, Arlington clients turned to the firm for help creating an outdoor living space. This time, the project was a little unusual: […]

Under Glass 


Under Glass 
 - The owners of a Victorian home in Chevy Chase had a problem: The glass pool house on their pristine property had become an eyesore. Built in 1960, […]

Moment of Zen

While preparing to redo the landscape of his 1970s Great Falls contemporary, a client visited Indonesia and came home with an idea: to create an expansive water installation that would […]

Two's Company

Two women, one in her 80s and one about 15 years younger, were sharing a two-story condo when a single-level unit in the same building became available. With practicality in […]

Backyard Bonanza

“The property is about a quarter acre—and we used every square inch of it,” recounts Luke Tirrell of Wheat’s Landscape, who oversaw the transformation of a Bethesda backyard from mundane […]

Master Plan

The owners of a home in Great Falls wanted to add functionality and appeal to their property with a pool and pool house. They tapped landscape architect Jay Graham to […]

High Contrast

“I  never tire of black and white,” declares designer Sallie Finney Kjos, who recently redecorated her own South Riding, Virginia, townhouse using this dramatic combination throughout. “It’s just classic. You […]

Bold Statement

DARK + SEXY After clients in McLean requested “a dark, sexy powder room,” recalls Martha Vicas, she employed textures and metallic surfaces to achieve their vision. Three-dimensional wall tile from […]

Industrial Modern 

After overhauling a vintage  row house in DC’s Shaw neighborhood, Patrick Brian Jones immediately began designing a new carriage house on the same property. The owners wanted the 22-by-30-foot structure […]

Bedtime Story

1/ Safari Dreams—An orange zebra-print rug by Alliyah was the starting point for Breeze Giannasio of California-based Breeze Giannasio Interiors as she planned a nursery in her  clients’ DC row […]

City Oasis

A backyard garden in Kalorama posed some challenges for landscape architect Jennifer Horn, who was asked to transform it into a party-ready space with a touch of Asian flair. The […]

Small Wonders

When architect Rebecca Mann and her family moved into a circa-1909 row house on Capitol Hill, space was at a premium. The 1,200-square-foot abode had a tiny, dark kitchen and […]

Child’s Play

A kids’ hangout should be light, bright and stimulating,” says designer Sallie Kjos, describing the vision she had for a basement redo in Fairfax, Virginia. The mandate was to create […]

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