How do you help clients achieve enduring quality and style? At the first design meeting, I try to bring ideas and a vision for the scheme of the house that […]

Nick and Liane Pace found their forever home in 2012, just after their third child arrived. They fell for the 1938 abode’s Georgian-style façade and grand interiors, not to mention […]

Fronting San Domingo Creek in St. Michaels, Cindy and Bob Hurley’s second home is all about the Chesapeake Bay. The house was created to fit into the flat, watery landscape, […]

When Angela and Frank Ferrogine moved from Edgewater to Annapolis to be closer to work and family, they had the perfect plan. Frank found the lot they wanted on the […]

Newfangled design trends are considered ahead of their time—until, suddenly, they’re not. Case in point:  the sunken living room. One homeowner considered hers a hip twist on tradition when she […]

Many mid-Atlantic beach houses riff on Nantucket style, with shingled façades, pitched roofs and turrets. In a sea of such traditional homes, a new Rehoboth Beach escape captivates passersby. Its […]

A backyard view of Washington’s splendid National Cathedral is not a thing to be taken lightly. Seen from one particular home in Cathedral Heights, the massive Gothic structure rises unexpectedly […]

When attorneys Betsy Karmin and Manny Strauss traded the Bethesda home where they raised their two daughters for a penthouse in Kalorama, they decided to start with a blank slate. […]

When Susan Goldman entered the studio-art program at Indiana University Bloomington, she planned to become a painter. That was before she took a required class in printmaking. “There was a […]

CHIC CHAISE Wave, a minimalist chaise longue, was conceived by Francesco Rota for Italian design company Paola Lenti. The sinuous steel structure is encased in a sustainable, handwoven cover of […]

ISLAND FLAIR Lively, graphic patterns characterize Nautilus, a line of fabric, trim and wallpaper from Schumacher that evokes island flair. Pictured against the backdrop of Maximus, a large-scale cotton geometric […]

Passementerie—a catch-all name for the tassels, trim, fringe and pom-poms that dress up drapes and upholstery—is akin to jewelry for the home. So it wasn’t a stretch when New York […]

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE DESIGN ELEMENTS WHEN CREATING INTERIORS FOR A WATERFRONT HOME? The view, of course! Choosing colors that complement the water view is my first thought when designing […]

A painting by Sibel Kocabasi makes a powerful first impression in the dining room of a grand Bethesda home. With a pattern that suggests ice floes reaching toward a distant […]

Living in surroundings with the aura of a calm country retreat isn’t generally associated with a city address. But when one Washington couple found a 1930 home on an acre […]

Five years after leaving a career in New York to start her own design firm (and a family) in Baltimore, Laura Hodges got a call from a former Wall Street […]